1. Mobilizing Assets for Community Driven Development Coady International Institute

2. Individual Skills  How would you go about identifying all the various types of capacities: skills, talents, expertise, innovations etc. that exist in a community?

3. Categories of skills  Skills for making livelihoods  Sub groupings?  “Civic” skills (skills for building ‘community’)  Think also of:  Cultural skills (and indigenous knowledge)  Local innovations

4. Mapping skills of the head, hand and heart Cooking Dancing Embroidery Salt Farming Stitching Compassion Humour Teamwork Conflict resolution Willingness to collaborate Analysis Organization Writing Management Literacy

5. Individual Skills Crop Production Animal Husbandry Civic SkillsConstruction Skills Handicrafts & Artisans Artistic Skills Health SkillsOther - Farming - Weeding - Thrashing - Sowing - Harvesting - Irrigation - Flood protection - Rearing - Breeding - Fattening - Castrating - Taming horse, ox, and mule - Milking and milk processing - Conflict mediation - Group leadership - Advising - Counseling - Organizing - Masonry - Carpentry - Plastering & roofing - Surveying construction of irrigation canals - Hand dug wells - Blacksmith - Pottery - Weaving -Embroidery - Basket making - Tailoring - Spinning - Plating hair - Barbering - Tanning - Musical instruments - Singing - Dancing - Poetry - Playing traditional musical instruments - Story telling Ttraditional healing - Bone setting - Midwifery - Herbalist - Cautery - Veterinary - Birthing - Childcare, socialization - Petty trading - Weather forecast - Time reckoning - Natural resource managing - Farm tool making - Silo making