A free resource for nonprofit organizations, NGOs, civil society organizations,
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by Jayne Cravens
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Tourism for Community & Economic Development
My work & favorite resources

• A Broad Abroad Resources & Inspiration For Women Who Travel (or Want to!). A series of tip sheets, essays and links to web sites to encourage women to travel, and to support those who do.
• Packing tips and health & safety considerations especially for novice women travelers. Sites wishing to cater to women travelers should view the safety tips in particular to evaluate how well they accommodate women travelers in terms of safety.
  
• Things for women to consider regarding accommodations choices while traveling, including advice on on safety. Hotels and guest houses wishing to cater to women travelers should view the safety tips to evaluate how well they accommodate women travelers in terms of safety.
• For women who travel by motorcycle (or want to). Includes information on packing and accommodations.
• transire benefaciendo: "to travel along while doing good." Advice for those wanting to make their travel more than sight-seeing and shopping, whether in your own country or abroad.
• Using the Internet to Share Your Adventure During Your Adventure, advice on blogging, photo-sharing, tweeting, etc.
• Advice for Hotels, Hostels & Campgrounds in Transitional & Developing Countries: The Qualities of Great, Cheap Accommodations. This resource is for those budget accommodation sites that want to better cater to international travelers, especially women.
  
• Louisville, Kentucky Needs a Travelers' Hostel: a proposal and business plan outline for a traveler's hostel in Louisville, Kentucky, USA (it's a dream of mine). Feel free to use this as a template for your own proposal in your own community.
  
• Vetting Organizations in Other Countries
  A resource that helps people evaluate volunteer-placement organizations that charge the volunteer for the placement (voluntourism) . It's also a good resource for people and organizations interested in partnering or supporting an organization abroad but wanting to know it's a credible organization, that it's not some sort of scam, or an 'organization' of just one person. If you are an organization in a developing country that is aspiring to attract international volunteers and partners, this page should be of interest to you as well, as it shows what you need on your web site and in your practices to be seen as credible.
  
• Hosting International Volunteers
  This resource provides tips for local organization in a developing countries interested in gaining to international volunteers, including engaging in voluntourism.
  
• The Canby, Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Facebook page - part of my work with my own community as a citizen volunteer.
  

1 G20 recognizes travel tourism as driver of economic growth

2 Tourism can contribute three pillars of sustainability

Tourism4Dev Resources by Others
I've compiled this page of links to resources by other organizations regarding tourism for development.

Jayne A Broad Facebook page
This Facebook fan page is where I follow USA state parks, national parks, national forests, and organizations focused on sustainable tourism, getting children, women and under-represented groups outdoors, and related international organizations and sites. My travel-related tweets from the my jayne_a_broad twitter feed (see below) get posted here automatically. It's about learning and sharing regarding tourism as a tool for economic and community development - and the importance of travel for our personal and educational growth.
My @jayne_a_broad Twitter feed
This Twitter feed is focused on my own experiences traveling, camping, riding my motorcycle or my bicycle, taking mass transit (buses and trains), commuting by walking or bicycling, and various other mostly-personal interests, including politics. If you are a woman motorcyclist, a non-spandex-wearing bicycle commuter or girlie-bike rider, an international adventure or budget traveler, a motorcycle traveler, a mass transit advocate, a writer or researcher regarding any of these subjects - or someone that wants to cater to such travelers - you might enjoy following this Twitter feed (latest tweets can be seen at the top of this page). This Twitter feed is more about the importance of travel for our personal and educational growth.

Basic Fund-Raising for Small NGOs serving the developing world
This free document I developed. It provides very basic guidelines for small NGOs in the developing world regarding fund-raising, and points to other online resources. By small NGOs, I mean organizations that may have only one paid staff member, or are run entirely by volunteers; and may not have official recognition by the government. This includes small NGOs and government offices that want to develop tourism in a region.

Questions to Ask for a Major Report from the Developing World
Most people who write reports about their projects in the developing world rely heavily on field staff to provide information. Often, however, field staff aren't expert report writers, and struggle to provide meaningful, timely information in a coherent written form. Many report writers get around this by interviewing field staff about their work, so that needed information is provided through answers to questions. This method can also build the capacity of field staff to provide written information themselves. This is a list of questions I used to interview staff at an initiative in Afghanistan that was focused on rural projects. I based these questions on previous monthly and quarterly reports, suggestions from donors, the initiatives stated objectives, and my own need for information that could lead to stories in which the press might be interested.

Building Staff Capacities to Communicate and to Present
Marketing and public relations is never just one person's responsibility at an organization, regardless of everyone's job titles; everyone at an organization will interact with other staff, partner organizations, potential supporters and the general public at some point. Therefore, everyone needs to be able to talk or to write clearly about his or her own work and that of the organization overall. This new resource describes various activities I undertook to improve the communication capacities of Afghan government staff. This resource links to various slide presentations and materials used for this endeavor in Afghanistan that can be adapted by others in different countries and situations. Included is a workshop on helping women in strict religious cultures to cultivate their presentation and public speaking skills, a workshop and tip sheet to help staff write better reports, and a slide presentation to help staff take photos in the field that will serve a variety of communications and reporting purposes.

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