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The 100 VALLEYS Project is designed to facilitate the self-development of all the communities of the valleys of Peru. Today we have hundreds of organizations working with the rural communities in the valleys of the Coast and Sierra creating an urgent necessity to integrate the resources of these many entities to secure greater results. There is a great opportunity now to create agreement between organizations in order to deliver superior services to the communities at no additional cost. The principal actions of the 100 VALLEYS Project are: Facilitate the collaboration of the agencies that are serving the rural communities in order to permit the self-development approach to development Initiate demonstration projects that highlight best practices of sustainable production Implement self-development Demonstration Communities in the Sierra Regions, followed by others in the climate zones of each valley Initiate Voluntary Leaders Associations in each climate zone to guide the process of self-development for the long term Promote long-term large scale development projects that are beyond the vision of the government The role of ICA-Peru as the coordinator of this Project is to: Facilitate the coordination of the collaborating agencies Guide the demonstrations to assure that they are replicable. Share effective methods to support self-development and avoid dependency Promote practices that assure a substantial participation of the local people in all of the communities of the valleys Monitor and document the coverage and consistency of the services delivered Constantly facilitate a new consensus when new challenges arise. location -

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The City of Detroit has two mottoes: Speramus Meliora, and, Resurget Cineribus, Latin for: We Hope For Better Things, and, It Shall Rise From the Ashes. A year after filing the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, Detroit's communities are "rising from the ashes" from the bottom up, and Technology of Participation (ToP) is playing a role in promoting community ownership of renewal initiatives.
Earlier this year, the Skillman Foundation engaged Chicago ToP trainers, Dennis Jennings and Judy Weddle, to customize a ToP Facilitation Methods training for a group of partners and stakeholders working on a community renewal project in Southwest Detroit.
The group, Vista Partnership, seeks to address long-term disinvestment and economic decline in three neighborhoods spanning a 20-block area.  Recognizing residents as the key drivers of change in their own neighborhoods, the project is bringing them together and creating spaces where they can turn their hopes for their neighborhoods into reality.
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The Community Opportunities Fund supports organizational capacity building and policy and advocacy efforts by organizations serving the needs of children 0-5 and their families. The fund is intended to be flexible and responsive to the needs and creative ideas of community agencies as they strive to address and sustain outcomes identified by First 5 LA as key to the safety, health and readiness to learn of our youngest residents.
The COF grantees represent a wide array of organizations and projects throughout Los Angeles County. ICA’s consulting team of Kara Coleman, Aja Howell and Kate Mrgudic will provide support for successful project implementations through one-on-one technical assistance, in-person training opportunities, information dissemination, and webinars. Assistance will focus on grantee utilization of data from a baseline organization self assessment, The Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT), as well as the expressed needs identified within each organization’s COF proposal and feedback from grantee staff.

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In 2003, 45 men and women in Nabuganyi Parish in Kayuga District were trained as peer educators and a community plan was created. Good cooperation was developed with the district health office, but very few services were available to the district and almost none outside the district town. Despite very little staff support, the 2005 project evaluation revealed continued enthusiasm and involvement of the 2003 participants. Concern was expressed that youth understand the full threat of HIV. Stigma was very high and youth often continued unhealthy sexual habits because to change behavior might mark them as being HIV positive. In 2008, a project to train youth leaders was funded by Rotary Club of Boulder, Colorado in cooperation with the Kyambogo Rotary in Kampala. Bob and Sandra True went to Kayunga District to assist in a five-day Youth Awareness and Mobilization Training. Thirty male and female out of school youth ages 18 – 25 from each of eight villages in Busana District participated, a total of 240 youth. The youth are primarily ages 18 – 25, and both men and women. During the lesson on VCT, more than 90% were tested and received their results immediately. As part of training, participants formed campaign teams to go door to door to urge people to be tested. This complemented the Ministry of Health initiative to promote voluntary door to door testing. In addition, a Living Well group was formed and began training. The program was not refunded by Boulder Rotary, although Kyambogo Rotary in Kampala was enthusiastic   Zambia The current work of OPAD on HIV focuses on the intersection of poverty and HIV infection in areas where prevalence rates are higher than the rest of the country: Central province, 17.5%,; Lusaka Province, 20.8%; and Southern Province 14.5%. Work has shifted from HIV/AIDS prevention awareness and care in 2003 in Mwanamainda area to VCT awareness because most Zambians are aware of HIV/AIDS and how to prevent it 
Strengthening community based structures and response groups in order to effectively meet the development needs of HIV/AIDS affected families and PLWHA
Increasing food diversity and security for :PLWHA and HIV/AIDS affected families 
Reducing socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS among women and their families through income earning initiatives