20 Points of Progress

Twenty Point of Progress Program (20PPP)

The 20PPP is a simple methodology for structuring the processes of village development. It includes 12 basic action steps which seek to help a village community move through the three stages of developing (1) their awareness and consciousness raising skills, (2) their capacity building and problem solving skills, and (3) their empowerment and networking skills. In order to be certified as a Center of Village Progress, a group of such villages must be willing to work together over at least a five year period, documenting their level of progress in each of 20 indicators, seeking actively to improve their scores in each of those 20 indicators, and monitoring their progress in these 20 indicators each year. CHOICE Humanitarian has conceptualized this process as the CHOICE Circle of Village Development.

The 20PPP seeks first to stimulate the involvement and participation of all the members of a village community, second to teach villagers to engage in project prioritization, action planning, and implementation skills, and third, to develop some base-line indicators that will help both villagers and outside donor agencies more easily monitor in a systematic way, if, how and why progress is being made in their efforts to improve the quality of life in rural villages. The 20PPP is a simple technology, utilizing a limited number of indicators that any community could use, but which provides a fairly diverse set of program options that suggest areas of emphasis and prioritization for communities desiring to take more responsibility for their own development.