A total of 150 men, women and youths completed community level development studies and implemented practical tasks around active citizenship, healthy living, disaster management, community development, income generation projects and participatory budgeting over a period of 6 holistic model of community development and very relevant to the Pacific communities. The Social and Economic Empowerment Training Guide manual for Pacific Communities was developed by FRIEND and launched jointly with USP Lautoka Campus in March 2010. Since then FRIEND has been using the training guide to train participants in a number of communities