Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
recorrido transectorial
English translation:
transect walk
Spanish term
Spain
Analytical and creative (DipTrans, MA)
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, Galician to English, English
recorrido transectorial
This is from a training document on disaster preparedness and sustainable development. This section in particular comes from a table describing Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment tools and processes.
I have been discussing this document with a Risk Assessment Engineer in the family, and his notes on this term were as follows:
">Review across sectors of community
>Trans-sectorial community review
I think this is just taking a first look at all community sectors/stakeholders."
Nevertheless, I am having trouble finding an official term within the context of VCA (Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment)
I would appreciate some more expert input from your good selves. Thanks in advance for you help!
Kate
| 4 +4 | transect walk |
James A. Walsh
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| 4 | Trans-sectorial community inspection (assessment) |
Leonardo Lamarche
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| 2 +1 | Cross-Sectional Community Overview |
Robert Forstag
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Dec 15, 2009 11:27: James A. Walsh changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/677284">Kate Major Patience's</a> old entry - "recorrido transectorial"" to ""transect walk""
Proposed translations
Spain
A cut above the rest in translation...
Native in: English (Variants: US, UK, Irish) 
, Spanish (Variants: Standard-Spain, Latin American)
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
transect walk
Hope this helps. :)
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-12-02 14:53:56 GMT)
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Glad to be of help Kate - Cheers :))
| That absolutely is it! I'd found "walks" in some documents related to African development projects, but not the full term (can't even remember how they put it now), but in relation to VCA this is getting plenty of hits in contexts similar to mine. In fact, the text I'm translating refers a great deal to the Red Cross and Red Crescent texts which many of these tools are based on, which come up in hits for transect walks, so I reckon that is just about spot on James! I was beginning to wonder if I could possibly find the official term! Thank you. :) |
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Rod Brookes
: Agreed. This seems to me to fit perfectly.
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Thanks Rod.
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Robert Forstag
: Odd though it sounds (at least to my ear), this does seem to be the official term. // Exactly. So often it is that way: the consecrated (i.e, "right") term may be something that would be rejected in general terms as awkward, non-standard, or just wrong.
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Thanks Robert. Sounds odd to me too; too rudimentary somehow... well, there you go.
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Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
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Thanks Muriel.
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Fiona Hale
: Also agree that this is a standard term.
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Thank you Fiona.
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United States
Translating words, preserving meaning
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, English
Cross-Sectional Community Overview
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Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
: I don't really thing it has to do with sectors!
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I don't either; I think it merely refers to the "different areas/neighborhoods" of the community. Thank you, Muriel.
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Venezuela
Leonardo Lamarche Translator
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
Trans-sectorial community inspection (assessment)
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Note added at 43 mins (2009-12-02 14:03:36 GMT)
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Transectorial means through all (relevant, important to the assessment purpose) sectors of the comunity. It does not mean a cross section path or any definite line path.
Discussion
Thanks to James's insight into this term in particular, I have also managed to resolve a whole bunch of other terms too. I hope that all of this proves useful to future searches. Thanks everybody for your input and intelligent suggestions for solutions.
El recorrido transectorial consiste en una caminata a través de la comunidad para observar los alrededores, las personas, el uso de la tierra y los recursos existentes.
Se puede determinar la ruta del recorrido trazando en el mapa de la comunidad una línea que atraviese o divida en sectores todas las áreas de tal suerte que se obtenga una visión representativa de la comunidad.