| Autor: |
Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Fabricio Balcazar, Edurne García Iriarte, Tina Taylor-Ritzler |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2008 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Gateways, Vol 1, Iss 0, Pp 179-196 (2008) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1836-3393 |
| DOI: |
10.5130/ijcre.v1i0.626 |
| Popis: |
Capacity building is an effective strategy for promoting organizational change and/or improving the quality of social services. In this article I present an empowerment approach to capacity building. In doing so I propose a number of principles that can promote capacity building and collaboration between social service agencies and universities from an empowerment perspective: keeping the control of the capacity building process in the agency; developing competencies that matter to the people in the agency; engaging in supportive roles; maintaining a strengths-based approach to capacity building; focusing on sustainability, institutionalization and utilization of acquired skills; and paying attention to cultural and contextual issues. Further, the challenges and benefits of the empowerment approach to university-agency collaboration are discussed in this article. |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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