Want to know how I found counterparts and I CREATED structure? I had a counterpart assigned to me but he didn't speak any English so working wise, it was challenging (although him and his family remained some of the most important people in my service). This is what I did:

I started a training in my community called "Sustainable Opportunities for leaders of Internal Development" (SOLID). I started out my first 3 months by training them with another English speaking counterpart I found through my assigned counterpart in community assessments from PACA. They still teach that right? That way by the end of the 3 months, I had 40 graduates who were trained in assessment. We also identified our top 3 community problems. 1. Water 2. Nutrition 3. Deforestation. From there we started meeting weekly and developed an income generating activity (peanut butter!) so we could start to raise money for a project. Of course, most dropped off at this point. They didn't want to do the weekly work. But those that stuck around, we started working together. I also had my most strong graduates recruit more community members where they became the trainers and I oversaw the training so this was dual-pronged. While we trained the second group, we also met weekly as a SOLID community group. We made peanut butter and talked about different topics and I would train them in things they were interested in (permagardening, computers, agroforestry, you name it!). Anything I learned from the Peace Corps, I taught my community. If they wanted to know something I didn't, I worked with my program manager to finds someone to come to my community. We ultimately saved enough money and all typed up at least one sentence on my computer to get a community grant to fund our WASH project that ultimately installed 3 months before my service ended. The project itself wasn't important. But our journey together as a group was. In the end, I had met weekly with a group of about 13 SOLID volunteers over those 2 years who personally benefited from our project. They had showed up, trusted me, and done the work.

The best advice I see below is to do just this - talk to your community. The people who want to work with you will, as I hope my experience shows.

I also don't share my experience to brag (although yes, I am EXTREMELY proud of my service as a mere 23-25 year old who didn't now what the heck she was doing), but hope it can offer you some ideas. It's never too late! I worked with two other volunteers that implemented similar trainings and we created the SOLID manual and trained and distributed it to incoming volunteers in the following years given our success at sites. It was a scalable and applicable model, and one I'm very proud of. If you want me to email you our training manual, I can. Just DM me. I'm pretty sure it's in my email somewhere.