Journal articles: 'Capacity building strategies'

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Wetta-Hall, Ruth, Elizabeth Ablah, Julie Oler-Manske, Mark Berry, and Craig Molgaard. "Strategies for Community-Based Organization Capacity Building." Health Care Manager 23, no. 4 (October 2004): 302–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00126450-200410000-00003.

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Pawson, Hal, Vivienne Milligan, and Chris Martin. "Building Australia's affordable housing industry: capacity challenges and capacity-enhancing strategies." International Journal of Housing Policy 19, no. 1 (May 28, 2018): 46–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2018.1469108.

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Mertkan, Sefika, and Ciaran Sugrue. "Building institutional capacity: more accountability than autonomy?" Journal of Organizational Change Management 27, no. 2 (April 8, 2014): 331–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-07-2013-0142.

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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to explore the strategies schools use to build capacity in English secondary schools where they operate under strong pressures to improve continuously and failure to do so carries severe penalties. Design/methodology/approach – The approach involved in-depth case studies of six schools that utilized multiple sources of evidence. These include policy documents, interviews with multiple actors and observations of key management meetings. Findings – Findings suggest travelling strategies used by schools, but these are implemented with varying intensity, hybridity and creativity. The common travelling strategies re-contextualized in organizational fields are data workmanship, multi-level monitoring, and performance development. For participating schools, successfully replicating these three pillars through identity cloning, an attempt to establish institutional identities identical to that of the “performing schools”, helps lift schools in different contexts. Originality/value – There has been ample discussion on organizational capacity building, but the evidence on the actual strategies schools use is thin. This paper contributes to knowledge generation and understanding by providing as complete a picture as possible of the strategies schools use while remaining skeptical regarding the long-term consequences of short term “gains”.

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Haines, Danell J., and Tyler L. Fortman. "Building Research Capacity in College Recreational Sports." Recreational Sports Journal 31, no. 1 (April 2007): 26–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/rsj.31.1.26.

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The field of college recreational sports is growing, but research in the field has not grown equally. To ensure that decisions are made correctly and to justify the worth of college recreational sports to administrators, it is vitally important that research within the field expand. The purpose of this article is to identify strategies for building research capacity within the NIRSA community and in departments of college recreational sports. Previous literature was examined and four strategies within the context of building research capacity emerged: (1) create a research culture in which those affiliated with a given department have comparable positive views about the role of research within the department and use research to make evidence-based decisions; (2) develop and practice research skills; (3) select or be a research mentor; and (4) provide research resources including human resources, facilities, funding, and libraries. These themes are explained in detail and implementations strategies to build research capacity within college recreational sports are given.

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Breen, Lauren J., Samar M. Aoun, Bruce Rumbold, Beverley McNamara, Denise A. Howting, and Vincent Mancini. "Building Community Capacity in Bereavement Support." American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® 34, no. 3 (July 11, 2016): 275–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049909115615568.

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Background: Most bereaved people do not require specialist intervention, yet building community capacity in providing bereavement support is underdeveloped. While family caregivers indicate a need for more information about bereavement, there is little evidence to guide what this information might contain. Objective: The study’s purpose was to inform bereavement support by determining the advice people bereaved through expected deaths in palliative care have for others in that situation. Design: Four funeral providers posted a questionnaire to previous clients who had used their services 6 to 24 months prior and 678 bereaved people responded. Setting/Participants: The sample size for this study comprised 265 bereaved people whose relative used palliative care services. Measurements: The questionnaire comprised 82 questions about caregiving, bereavement support, current bereavement-related distress, and 2 open-ended questions concerning their bereavement, one of them on advice they have to other people in the same situation. Results: Family caregivers (n = 140) of people who received palliative care responded to the open-ended question about advice for others. An open content analysis yielded 3 themes—preparations for bereavement, utilizing social networks, and strategies for dealing with grief. Conclusions: Bereaved family caregivers’ experiential knowledge can be harnessed to progress the development of bereavement care strategies for the good of the community. These responses could be incorporated into information brochures, posters, and other community education avenues in order to upskill palliative care bereavement volunteers and the wider community so that bereaved family caregivers are best supported.

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Pauls, Jake. "Environmental Design Strategies for Building Egress." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 46, no. 9 (September 2002): 865–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193120204600908.

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The events of September 2001, 2001, plus the events' technical and political aftermath have helped to identify an unfortunate lack of research into building evacuation. The relative dearth of research is ironic given evacuation's central role in mitigation for a range of emergencies and its prominence in environmental design requirements in building codes and standards. The field of human factors has much to offer, for example, in a philosophical or strategic focus on human-centered design as well in more-prosaic issues such as exit stair width and handrail provision. Much of the available research addresses fairly low-level ergonomic issues such as exit stair width in relation to egress capacity and the impact on evacuation time. in addition to more-sophisticated research into the relatively simple issues, ahead lies more-difficult research relating to strategic issues and the provision of information to building occupants in emergencies, occupants' situational awareness generally, and the many social interactions—in seldom-considered environmental contexts—that are at the heart of major evacuations of large buildings such as in the case of the World Trade Center.

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Genthner, Klaus. "Strategies and perspectives for collaborative regional capacity building in desalination." Desalination 141, no. 2 (December 2001): 101–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0011-9164(01)00396-4.

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Huenneke, Laura F., Diane M. Stearns, Jesse D. Martinez, and Kelly Laurila. "Key Strategies for Building Research Capacity of University Faculty Members." Innovative Higher Education 42, no. 5-6 (March 16, 2017): 421–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10755-017-9394-y.

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Norton, Sophie, Andrew Milat, Barry Edwards, and Michael Giffin. "Narrative review of strategies by organizations for building evaluation capacity." Evaluation and Program Planning 58 (October 2016): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2016.04.004.

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Aczel, J. C., S. R. Peake, and P. Hardy. "Designing capacity-building in e-learning expertise: Challenges and strategies." Computers & Education 50, no. 2 (February 2008): 499–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2007.07.005.

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Luintel, Harisharan, Chandra Shekhar Silori, Simone Frick, and Bishnu Hari Poudyal. "Grassroots Capacity Building for REDD+: Lessons from Nepal." Journal of Forest and Livelihood 11, no. 2 (September 14, 2013): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jfl.v11i2.8617.

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Meaningful engagement and effective participation of grassroots stakeholders and forest managing communities in national policy formulation and local institutional processes for forest management have implications for the future global climate regime and poverty reduction among forestdependent poor. In this context, the institutional and technical capacity of grassroots stakeholders is critical in ensuring effective and successful implementation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, including Conservation and Sustainable Management of Forests and Enhancement of Forest Carbon Stocks (REDD+). Capacity building for grassroots stakeholders is particularly crucial as REDD+ has to be implemented in a complex local environment shaped by multiple land use systems, sharply divided politics, conflicting policies, different levels of forest dependencies, complex social relations, unclear governance and tenure structures and differential climate impacts. It has been learned from the grassroots capacity building programme that there is a need of partnership and collaboration between grassroots stakeholders to build capacity for fighting against climate change at local level. However, there is no ‘one size fits all’ formula for capacity building, partnership and collaboration. Multi-pronged and multi-scale capacity strengthening strategies that draw on the strengths of various learning methods and address the unique needs of targeted stakeholders would be effective. These would/ should always be target-driven, addressing the specific needs and conditions of stakeholders, and reflecting their sustainable development strategies, priorities and initiatives. There is still a need to re-orient and strengthen the capacity of the key stakeholders of REDD+ in Nepal so that they can better analyse and understand their own carbon forestry conditions and develop strategies to get more benefits from the REDD+ scheme.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jfl.v11i2.8617 Journal of Forestry and Livelihood Vol.11(2) 2013 1-13

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Casey, Meghan M., Warren R. Payne, and Rochelle M. Eime. "Partnership and capacity-building strategies in community sports and recreation programs." Managing Leisure 14, no. 3 (July 2009): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13606710902944938.

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Kumar Chaudhary, Anil, John Diaz, K. S. U. Jayaratne, and Elsie Assan. "Evaluation capacity building in the nonformal education context: Challenges and strategies." Evaluation and Program Planning 79 (April 2020): 101768. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.101768.

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Chan, Raymond Javan, Alison Bowers, and Margaret Barton-Burke. "Organizational Strategies for Building Capacity in Evidence-Based Oncology Nursing Practice." Nursing Clinics of North America 52, no. 1 (March 2017): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnur.2016.10.001.

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Green, Barbara, Jeremy Segrott, Helena Priest, Amelia Rout, Mike McIvor, Julie Douglas, Yvonne Flood, Sara Morris, and Claire Rushton. "Research capacity for everyone? A case study of two academic nursing schools' capacity building strategies." Journal of Research in Nursing 12, no. 3 (May 2007): 247–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744987107078405.

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Matus, Janine, Rachel Wenke, and Sharon Mickan. "A Practical Toolkit of Strategies for Building Research Capacity in Allied Health." Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management 14, no. 2 (July 21, 2019): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.24083/apjhm.v14i2.261.

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Objectives: The objectives of this project were firstly to develop a practical toolkit of evidence-informed strategies for building research capacity in allied health, and secondly to disseminate and apply this toolkit to inform tailored research capacity building plans for allied health teams. Design: This project used a plan, do, study, act (PDSA) service quality improvement methodology to develop, disseminate and apply a toolkit which was based on the results of a recent systematic review of allied health research capacity building frameworks and a narrative review of other interventions and theoretical recommendations. Setting: Eight allied health professional teams in a publicly funded tertiary health service were supported to develop tailored research capacity building plans based on their specific needs, goals and context. Main outcome measures: The outcomes of this project were evaluated using process measures including whether a research capacity building plan was developed and to what extent short-term goals were achieved within three months. Results: A practical toolkit was developed which consolidates existing evidence-informed strategies and organises these around three components including ‘supporting clinicians in research’, ‘working together’ and ‘valuing research for excellence’ and 17 sub-components. Several barriers and facilitators to applying the toolkit to teams were identified and this paper suggests some recommendations and future directions for addressing these. Conclusions: This toolkit may be a useful resource to inform the development of team-based research capacity building plans for allied health. The application of the toolkit may be enhanced by a needs assessment and facilitation from a researcher.

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Ouseley-Torrezao, Eulanie. "Capacity Building Strategies: Can they promote Socially Just Strategic Intervention in Urban Governance?" Journal of Public Administration and Governance 3, no. 3 (October 5, 2013): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jpag.v3i3.3882.

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This paper analyses Capacity Building Interventions through three areas Human Resource Development, Organizational Development and Institutional Reform and explores a tool that promotes socially just capacity building interventions at the municipal level.

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Douglas, Stephanie. "Building organizational resilience through human capital management strategy." Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal 35, no. 5 (February 15, 2021): 19–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dlo-08-2020-0180.

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Purpose This paper examines the role of human capital management strategy in shaping organizational resilience. Resilient organizations thrive in uncertain and adverse conditions. The organization’s capacity for resilience can be developed through human capital management strategies that are focused on employee capabilities, training, and development. When individual capabilities and resilience are developed, those can be aggregated at an organizational level to develop the capacity in an organization for resilience. Design/methodology/approach A review of relevant studies and literature was conducted to develop strategies and insight into developing the human capital of an organization to support organizational resilience. Findings Supporting individual capability development and resilience builds the organization’s capacity for resilience. By shifting human capital management strategies to building capabilities and then skills, organizations develop individual resilience and then organizational resilience. The implications of how to build such human capital management strategies are presented. Originality/value This paper provides support and guidelines for building individual capability and resilience to enhance an organization’s resilience.

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Leeman, Jennifer, Larissa Calancie, Michelle C. Kegler, Cam T. Escoffery, Alison K. Herrmann, Esther Thatcher, Marieke A. Hartman, and Maria E. Fernandez. "Developing Theory to Guide Building Practitioners’ Capacity to Implement Evidence-Based Interventions." Health Education & Behavior 44, no. 1 (July 10, 2016): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1090198115610572.

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Public health and other community-based practitioners have access to a growing number of evidence-based interventions (EBIs), and yet EBIs continue to be underused. One reason for this underuse is that practitioners often lack the capacity (knowledge, skills, and motivation) to select, adapt, and implement EBIs. Training, technical assistance, and other capacity-building strategies can be effective at increasing EBI adoption and implementation. However, little is known about how to design capacity-building strategies or tailor them to differences in capacity required across varying EBIs and practice contexts. To address this need, we conducted a scoping study of frameworks and theories detailing variations in EBIs or practice contexts and how to tailor capacity-building to address those variations. Using an iterative process, we consolidated constructs and propositions across 24 frameworks and developed a beginning theory to describe salient variations in EBIs (complexity and uncertainty) and practice contexts (decision-making structure, general capacity to innovate, resource and values fit with EBI, and unity vs. polarization of stakeholder support). The theory also includes propositions for tailoring capacity-building strategies to address salient variations. To have wide-reaching and lasting impact, the dissemination of EBIs needs to be coupled with strategies that build practitioners’ capacity to adopt and implement a variety of EBIs across diverse practice contexts.

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Hendry, Charles. "Review: Research capacity for everyone? A case study of two academic nursing schools' capacity building strategies." Journal of Research in Nursing 12, no. 3 (May 2007): 267–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744987107078406.

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Casey, Meghan M., Warren R. Payne, and Rochelle M. Eime. "Organisational readiness and capacity building strategies of sporting organisations to promote health." Sport Management Review 15, no. 1 (February 2012): 109–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2011.01.001.

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Mahmoudi, Hacene, Ouagued Abdellah, and Noreddine Ghaffour. "Capacity building strategies and policy for desalination using renewable energies in Algeria." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 13, no. 4 (May 2009): 921–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2008.02.001.

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Goosen, Mattheus F. A., Hilal Al-Hinai, and Shyam Sablani. "Capacity-building strategies for desalination: activities, facilities and educational programs in Oman." Desalination 141, no. 2 (December 2001): 181–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0011-9164(01)00402-7.

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Bourgeois, I., L. Simmons, and D. Buetti. "Building evaluation capacity in Ontario's public health units: promising practices and strategies." Public Health 159 (June 2018): 89–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2018.01.031.

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Trostle, James. "Research capacity building in international health: Definitions, evaluations and strategies for success." Social Science & Medicine 35, no. 11 (December 1992): 1321–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(92)90035-o.

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Eze, Emmanuel, and Eric K. N. Nwagu. "Dimensions of Teachers’ Expressed Capacity Building Needs on Climate Change Education Strategies." Interdisciplinary Journal of Environmental and Science Education 17, no. 4 (June 16, 2021): e2251. http://dx.doi.org/10.21601/ijese/10982.

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Hulcombe, Julie, Jennifer Sturgess, Tina Souvlis, and Cate Fitzgerald. "An approach to building research capacity for health practitioners in a public health environment: an organisational perspective." Australian Health Review 38, no. 3 (2014): 252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah13066.

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A unique opportunity to engage in research capacity-building strategies for health practitioners arose within public sector health services during the negotiations for an industrial agreement. A research capacity-building initiative for health practitioners that is allied health, oral health and scientist practitioners was funded and the components of this initiative are described. The initiative was implemented using a research capacity-building framework developed from a review of the literature and stakeholder consultations. The framework included leadership and governance, support to researchers and translation of evidence into practice and was contextualised to public health environments. There were several phases of implementation. An evaluation of the preliminary phase of establishing research positions and research activity was conducted and several successes of the capacity-building strategies were identified. These successes (e.g. solid partnerships with universities) are discussed, as are future concerns, such as sustainability of the initiative in a tighter fiscal context. What is known about the topic? The literature identifies strategies to increase research capacity, including grant funds and bursaries, training in research methods, regular forums and networks for support, positions for research fellows and linkages and partnerships. There is minimal clarity or discourse around the organisational strategies or proposed evaluation of such strategies to enable or support research capacity building. What does this paper add? This paper describes implementation of a research capacity-building framework developed from a unique opportunity to provide funding for research positions and grants embedded in an industrial agreement. It describes the organisational and cultural perspectives and framework to build a research culture based on this funding, in a predominantly clinical workforce. What are the implications for practitioners? Research positions for allied health, oral health and scientist practitioners funded and supported jointly by a health organisation and a university are able to influence the number and quality of research proposals developed. These disciplines in other jurisdictions may use this model of research capacity building within their particular context.

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Brejc, Mateja, Klemen Širok, and Andrej Koren. "Training as strategy for school self-evaluation capacity building." Management 24 (May 29, 2019): 73–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.30924/mjcmi.24.si.5.

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The aim of the paper is to discuss the importance of school (self-) evaluation capacity building within quality assurance system in education in Slovenia. The research is focused on self-evaluation training program in 245 educational institutions. The results demonstrate its importance and pinpoints several challenges, i.e.: “how to build organizational (leaders’) evaluation capacity”, “learning transfer in practice”, and “how to choose among various evaluation capacity building strategies”. Building upon empirical findings, the paper suggests that the training as a sole strategy for capacity building does not suffice in the competitive, quality-driven educational context. Correspondingly, the model of self-evaluation capacity building for schools is presented and discussed.

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Srivastava, Surabhi. "Capacity Building through Nature Tourism at Southeast Rajasthan." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 6, no. 1 (February 2, 2017): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v6.n1.p6.

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<div><p><em>Rajasthan is known for its forts, palaces, desert, culture and also its flora and fauna. The tourism department focuses its policies and marketing strategies around these attractions. Tourists from all over the world visit the sanctuary and surroundings to experience and explore the natural beauty of the place.</em></p><p><em>The present paper presents the natural wealth of south east region of the state which is completely unexplored by the tourists and the tourism department. The region is travelled only by the explorers and adventurers. The researcher visited all these sites and explored the natural beauty for tourism development at this region. Under this paper the researcher developed a model for capacity building through tourism development of natural sites of a region.</em></p></div>

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O. M., Iroegbu, and Ubuaru L. C. "Characterization of Government Entreprenurial Human Capacity Building and its Impact on Business Profile of Women Entreprenuers in Abia State, Nigeria." Business, Management and Economics Research, no. 57 (June 20, 2019): 98–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/bmer.57.98.103.

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This study evaluated the extent of inclusion and participation of Women in Human capacity Building of a State in Nigeria. One hundred female business owners who graduated from skill acquisition centres of Abia state were randomly sampled to determine access to capacity building programmes, relevance of skills offered in programmes and type of business operation. Results showed that the 30% women affirmation policy as implemented by Abia State Government is an important factor in women entrepreneurial development. The Human Capacity building of Women entrepreneurs are tailored as stop gap. Even as petroleum producing state with strong financial base, her human capacity building strategies lack depth and are less consistent with entrepreneurial goals of women with tertiary level education. Irrespective of the state cosmopolitan status the human capacity building strategies are challenged by male dominated bureaucracy and cultural perception of female roles. A significant number (68% ) of women endorsed government policies. Seventy (70%) percent of women with tertiary education level viewed the skills offered in human capacity building as irrelevant to their training needs and entrepreneurial aspirations.Financial independence and Technology knowledge base influenced choice of business operations. The service sector was observed as the predominant choice of women.Empowerment support facilitation was suggestive of gender disparity in capacity building programmes.

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Chaskin, Robert J. "Building community capacity for children, youth and families." Children Australia 34, no. 1 (2009): 31–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200000511.

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Communities have long been seen as of central importance to individuals and families, and as critical lever for change. In recent years, the emphasis on community as an organizing principle to address a range of social problems and developmental needs of children and families has been increasing. This paper explores the question of why community is important for children and families, what communities can provide for their well-being, and how they might be strengthened. It outlines some of the reasons behind the interest in community as a locus for policy and practice, explores the idea of ‘community capacity’ and how to build it, and distills the principal strategies used by contemporary efforts to build capacity in disadvantaged communities. Finally, it examines both the promise and the limitations of a community capacity framework as an orientation toward social change and as an approach for addressing the needs of disadvantaged children and families.

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Thies, Cameron G. "National Design and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa." World Politics 61, no. 4 (August 26, 2009): 623–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0043887109990086.

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This article examines the political geography of state building in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The absence of interstate war has produced a unique situation for contemporary state builders in Africa—they have inherited states with relatively fixed borders encapsulating a variety of environmental and geographic conditions, compounded by varying distributions of population densities. The author examines the effects of a variety of strategies that African rulers have employed to enhance their state-building efforts given the type of national design they inhabit. These strategies include the allocation of citizenship, interventions in land tenure patterns, and the adoption and management of national currencies. The author tests the effects of these strategies on several dimensions of state capacity in sub-Saharan Africa from 1960 to 2004 using a variety of statistical analyses. The results indicate that the strategies currently adopted by African rulers have generally failed to substantially augment their capacity.

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Gautam, Raul, and Kshitiz Paudel. "Seismic Capacity Assessment of Unreinforced Brick Masonry Building Performed According To Eurocode." Technical Journal 2, no. 1 (November 11, 2020): 121–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/tj.v2i1.32848.

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Brick Masonry Building with cement sand mortar is a common type of building typology in Nepal. Regardless of being one of the eldest construction technology, the behavior of masonry building is still a matter of study. The uncertainty in the behavior of masonry structures is due to material heterogeneity, complex behavior under different loading conditions and may be due to less research in this arena. Different modeling strategies are used and proposed worldwide to design and to identify the seismic performance of Masonry Building. The analysis strategy ranges from the simple linear method, equivalent frame method, static nonlinear method to dynamic nonlinear, which may be chosen according to engineering design aims and research purpose. In this attempt, authors choose two degrees of freedom 3D model of Unreinforced Brick Masonry Structures which catches both overturning and hysteresis mechanisms due to the shear response implemented by the TREMURI program with static nonlinear procedures. This verified method of modeling and analysis is applied to assess the performance of three different Unreinforced Brick Masonry buildings of the same plans with different numbers of storey.

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Byungura, Jean Claude, Henrik Hansson, Kamuzinzi Masengesho, and Thashmee Karunaratne. "ICT Capacity Building: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rwandan Policies from Higher Education Perspective." European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning 19, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 46–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eurodl-2016-0007.

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Abstract With the development of technology in the 21st Century, education systems attempt to integrate technology-based tools to improve experiences in pedagogy and administration. It is becoming increasingly prominent to build human and ICT infrastructure capacities at universities from policy to implementation level. Using a critical discourse analysis, this study investigates the articulation of ICT capacity building strategies from both national and institutional ICT policies in Rwanda, focusing on the higher education. Eleven policy documents were collected and deeply analyzed to understand which claims of ICT capacity building are made. The analysis shows that strategies for building ICT capacities are evidently observed from national level policies and only in two institutional policies (KIST and NUR). Among 25 components of ICT capacity building used, the ones related to human capacity are not plainly described. Additionally, neither national nor institutional policy documents include the creation of financial schemes for students to acquire ICT tools whilst learners are key stakeholders. Although there is some translation of ICT capacity building strategies from national to some institutional policies, planning for motivation and provision of incentives to innovators is not stated in any of the institutional policies and this is a key to effective technology integration.

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Millar, Patti, and Alison Doherty. "“You Can’t Just Start and Expect It to Work”: An Investigation of Strategic Capacity Building in Community Sport Organizations." Journal of Sport Management 32, no. 4 (July 1, 2018): 348–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2017-0233.

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Capacity building is a targeted approach to addressing organizational challenges by focusing development efforts on specific needs. Utilizing Millar and Doherty’s process model of capacity building, the purpose of this study was to (a) gain insight into the nature of the conditions and processes of capacity building in the community sport context and (b) examine the veracity of the proposed model. Interviews were conducted with organizational members from two community sport organizations that were purposefully chosen and happened to have introduced new programs: one that experienced successful capacity building that enhanced program and service delivery and one that experienced unsuccessful capacity building where organizational needs were not effectively addressed. Findings revealed that the thoroughness of the needs assessment, the selection of appropriate capacity building strategies, and readiness to build capacity were key factors in the (lack of) success of the capacity building efforts. Implications for practice and future research on organizational capacity building are presented.

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Baía Saraiva, Nuno, Luisa Dias Pereira, Adélio Rodrigues Gaspar, and José Joaquim da Costa. "Barriers on Establishing Passive Strategies in Office Spaces: A Case Study in a Historic University Building." Sustainability 13, no. 8 (April 20, 2021): 4563. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13084563.

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The adaptation of spaces to different usage typologies can be complex in heritage buildings. Facilities were initially planned for a specific type of use that, when changed, require additional measures to ensure a suitable indoor environment. Passive strategies—e.g., free cooling—are commonly used as an alternative without requiring equipment installation. However, its implementation often leads to unsatisfactory conditions. Therefore, it is important to clarify the main barriers to achieving thermal comfort in readapted historic buildings. The present work investigates the thermal comfort conditions reported by workers in office spaces of a historic building in the University of Coimbra. A monitoring campaign was carried out between May and September 2020 to assess indoor conditions’ quality. Due to the current pandemic of COVID-19, offices were not occupied at full capacity. A one-day evaluation of thermal comfort was made using a climate analyzer and six occupants were surveyed on 19 August 2020. The main results highlighted discomfort due to overheating of spaces. The causes were related to the combination of inadequate implementation of the free cooling actions and the building use. Furthermore, it was recommended the installation of HVAC systems in case of full capacity.

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K.M, Moorning. "Technology Capacity Building Strategies for Increasing Participation & Persistence in the Stem Workforce." International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education 7, no. 1 (March 30, 2018): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/ijite.2018.7103.

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Goodloe, Angela, Keesha Kerns, and Jillian Ardley. "Building Capacity in the Successful Preparation of Teachers of Color: Effective Recruitment Strategies." Kappa Delta Pi Record 56, no. 3 (July 2, 2020): 112–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00228958.2020.1770003.

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Ardley, Jillian, Angela Goodloe, and Keesha Kerns. "Building Capacity in the Successful Preparation of Teachers of Color: Effective Retention Strategies." Kappa Delta Pi Record 56, no. 4 (October 1, 2020): 160–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00228958.2020.1813514.

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Petcharoen, H., N. Suwanpong, and R. Ramaswamy. "Participatory Capacity Building Strategies for Improving Quality of Child Care Centers in Thailand." Annals of Global Health 83, no. 1 (April 7, 2017): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2017.03.251.

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Suryanto, Suryanto. "Strategi Peningkatan Kapasitas Penyelenggaraan Pemerintahan Daerah." Jurnal Desentralisasi 9, no. 6 (2010): 59–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.37378/jd.2010.6.59-74.

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This study attempts to identify capacity-building efforts conducted by local governments, obstacles facing local governments in those efforts, as well as formulating models/strategies for effective local government capacity building. This study utilizes primary data pertain to local government capacity building (CB) implementation and publicly available data on CB model/strategy as secondary data. As the approach of this study, qualitative analysis was based on an in-depth interview, discussion, and literature study. The research reveals that CB activities had been conducted by the local government (partially). Yet, the activities were not based on a comprehensive evaluation. It is recommended that the local government utilize CB models/strategies that have been developed from the study.

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Rose, Jo, and Janaka Jayawickrama. "Capacity building of institutions for disaster risk reduction." Built Environment Project and Asset Management 6, no. 4 (September 5, 2016): 391–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bepam-06-2015-0024.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the role of local communities in responding to crises and disasters. The paper highlights that most communities have their own mechanisms of dealing with uncertainties and dangers produced by disasters. The paper acknowledges that most disaster response and disaster risk reduction (DDR) organisations advocate to work with local communities and most seek to build the capacity of these communities. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on a series of case studies gathered together with their experience over the past decade of working with both local communities that have been affected by disasters and international organisations involved in DDR and humanitarian responses. Findings This paper concludes that whilst international institutions continue to make attempts at building the capacity of local communities they need to seek to work collaboratively with local communities. International institutions must ultimately learn from them and build their own capacity for developing context specific and effective DDR strategies and disaster responses. Originality/value This paper offers local case studies that give a rare insight into some of the ways local communities deal with disasters and view international responses to disasters and conflicts. This paper demonstrates the role of local communities in building the capacity of international institutions for DDR.

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Francis, Helen, and Tom Baum. "HR transformation within the hotel industry: building capacity for change." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 10, no. 1 (February 12, 2018): 86–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/whatt-10-2017-0064.

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Purpose This study aims to identify recent trends in the strategic repositioning of the human resources (HR) function within the hotel industry, and to explore challenges facing HR professionals as they engage in strategies to develop talent and organisational capability, while adjusting to the shifting boundaries of the HR function. Design/methodology/approach The study provides a case study investigation based on a qualitative research design. It draws on a series of informal discussions with key informants, in-depth round table discussions with members of the HR function and a rich source of secondary (company specific) data about a recent strategic change initiative. Findings The study presents a rich picture of the contradictory nature of the strategic repositioning of the HR function, and the role of electronic HR systems in shaping this. It points to the significance of “higher-order” HR capabilities associated with the functions’ capacity to engage in strategies to develop talent and organisational capability. Practical implications This study points to contradictions and tensions in shifting the focus of the HR function from “operational” to “strategic” management of talent. It offers four practice implications in the areas of continuous professional development, and building HR and line manager skills in dialogue, project management and the use of new technology, talent data and analytics. Originality/value This study illustrates the deployment of talent management practices within a broader organisational development remit to restructure the business and HR function in pursuit of more efficient and effective people management.

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D’Orazio, Marco, Gabriele Bernardini, and Enrico Quagliarini. "A probabilistic model to evaluate the effectiveness of main solutions to COVID-19 spreading in university buildings according to proximity and time-based consolidated criteria." Building Simulation 14, no. 6 (February 27, 2021): 1795–809. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12273-021-0770-2.

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AbstractUniversity buildings are one of the most relevant closed environments in which the COVID-19 event clearly pointed out stakeholders’ needs toward safety issues, especially because of the possibility of day-to-day presences of the same users (i.e. students, teachers) and overcrowding causing long-lasting contacts with possible “infectors”. While waiting for the vaccine, as for other public buildings, policy-makers’ measures to limit virus outbreaks combine individual’s strategies (facial masks), occupants’ capacity and access control. But, up to now, no easy-to-apply tools are available for assessing the punctual effectiveness of such measures. To fill this gap, this work proposes a quick and probabilistic simulation model based on consolidated proximity and exposure-time-based rules for virus transmission confirmed by international health organizations. The building occupancy is defined according to university scheduling, identifying the main “attraction areas” in the building (classrooms, break-areas). Scenarios are defined in terms of occupants’ densities and the above-mentioned mitigation strategies. The model is calibrated on experimental data and applied to a relevant university building. Results demonstrate the model capabilities. In particular, it underlines that if such strategies are not combined, the virus spreading can be limited by only using high protection respiratory devices (i.e. FFP3) by almost every occupant. On the contrary, the combination between access control and building capacity limitation can lead to the adoption of lighter protective devices (i.e. surgical masks), thus improving the feasibility, users’ comfort and favorable reception. Simplified rules to combine acceptable mask filters-occupants’ density are thus provided to help stakeholders in organizing users’ presences in the building during the pandemic.

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Sharma, Manju, Susan O'Connell, Brett Garelli, Chakkrid Sattayatewa, Demetrios Moschandreas, and Krishna Pagilla. "Case study of odor and indoor air quality assessment in the dewatering building at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant." Water Science and Technology 65, no. 4 (February 1, 2012): 773–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2012.898.

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Indoor air quality (IAQ) and odors were determined using sampling/monitoring, measurement, and modeling methods in a large dewatering building at a very large water reclamation plant. The ultimate goal was to determine control strategies to reduce the sensory impacts on the workforce and achieve odor reduction within the building. Study approaches included: (1) investigation of air mixing by using CO2 as an indicator, (2) measurement of airflow capacity of ventilation fans, (3) measurement of odors and odorants, (4) development of statistical and IAQ models, and (5) recommendation of control strategies. The results showed that air quality in the building complies with occupational safety and health guidelines; however, nuisance odors that can increase stress and productivity loss still persist. Excess roof fan capacity induced odor dispersion to the upper levels. Lack of a local air exhaust system of sufficient capacity and optimum design was found to be the contributor to occasional less than adequate indoor air quality and odors. Overall, air ventilation rate in the building has less effect on persistence of odors in the building. Odor/odorant emission rates from centrifuge drops were approximately 100 times higher than those from the open conveyors. Based on measurements and modeling, the key control strategies recommended include increasing local air exhaust system capacity and relocation of exhaust hoods closer to the centrifuge drops.

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Nenadic, Nenad G., Thomas A. Trabold, and Michael G. Thurston. "Cell Replacement Strategies for Lithium Ion Battery Packs." Batteries 6, no. 3 (July 23, 2020): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/batteries6030039.

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The economic value of high-capacity battery systems, being used in a wide variety of automotive and energy storage applications, is strongly affected by the duration of their service lifetime. Because many battery systems now feature a very large number of individual cells, it is necessary to understand how cell-to-cell interactions can affect durability, and how to best replace poorly performing cells to extend the lifetime of the entire battery pack. This paper first examines the baseline results of aging individual cells, then aging of cells in a representative 3S3P battery pack, and compares them to the results of repaired packs. The baseline results indicate nearly the same rate of capacity fade for single cells and those aged in a pack; however, the capacity variation due to a few degrees changes in room temperature (≃±3 ∘ C) is significant (≃±1.5% of capacity of new cell) compared to the percent change of capacity over the battery life cycle in primary applications (≃20–30%). The cell replacement strategies investigation considers two scenarios: early life failure, where one cell in a pack fails prematurely, and building a pack from used cells for less demanding applications. Early life failure replacement found that, despite mismatches in impedance and capacity, a new cell can perform adequately within a pack of moderately aged cells. The second scenario for reuse of lithium ion battery packs examines the problem of assembling a pack for less-demanding applications from a set of aged cells, which exhibit more variation in capacity and impedance than their new counterparts. The cells used in the aging comparison part of the study were deeply discharged, recovered, assembled in a new pack, and cycled. We discuss the criteria for selecting the aged cells for building a secondary pack and compare the performance and coulombic efficiency of the secondary pack to the pack built from new cells and the repaired pack. The pack that employed aged cells performed well, but its efficiency was reduced.

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E. Waller, Robert, Pamela A. Lemoine, Evan G. Mense, and Michael D. Richardson. "Building Capacity for Quality Assurance in Global Higher Education." Journal of Education and Development 4, no. 1 (March 5, 2020): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.20849/jed.v4i1.718.

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As a result of changing missions, quality assurance in global higher education has ascended to the top of the higher education policy agenda in many nations. In order to hold universities accountable despite limited governmental support, many nations have adopted performance-based university funding strategies. Increasingly citizens and bureaucrats in many countries are asking more frequently what tangible benefits the society is receiving for the revenues being spent on higher education. The marketing, selling and financing of higher education has had both positive and negative effects on the future of global higher education because stakeholders are increasingly asking whether students are learning and whether institutions are providing a quality of service that justifies their cost. How do global higher education institutions develop and initiate techniques and programs to promote quality assurance for teaching and learning? Globalization and accountability create an atmosphere in higher education where knowledge and information are more vastly prized and more highly globalized than are localized economic concerns. Can quality assurance provide the framework for the implementation and development quality higher education in a climate of change and ambiguity?

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Abawi, Lindy-Anne, Tania Leach, and Julie Raitelli. "Building Leadership Capacity and Enacting School Improvement Policy: Voices from the Field." International Journal of Education 10, no. 1 (March 31, 2018): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ije.v10i1.12930.

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Education contexts engaging in reform, operate in complex environments that require the coherent implementation of education policies. Research highlights that systems that support shared leadership, strong communication practices and a sharp focus on the articulation of shared beliefs, are positioned to support strong policy interpretation though the enactment of school improvement strategies. This paper explores the inter-connected roles of a system middle leader (regional Project Officer) and a school leader (Principal) in interpreting and enacting systemic policy and direction in a state primary school within a regional context in Queensland, Australia. The case study utilised the regional Project Officer and Principal participants as co-researchers and captured their experiences through recorded narratives and narrative inquiry conversations. The thematic data analysis provides useful information about how school leaders can work with system middle leaders and their own school’s teaching teams to proactively grow the capacity, credibility and strength of teachers to translate policy into enacted school improvement strategies.

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Copland, Michael A. "Leadership of Inquiry: Building and Sustaining Capacity for School Improvement." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 25, no. 4 (December 2003): 375–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/01623737025004375.

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This article reports on findings from a longitudinal study of leadership in the context of a region-wide school renewal effort entitled the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (BASRC). BASRC's theory of action is multifaceted, incorporating a focus on distributed leadership, continual inquiry into practice, and collective decision-making at the school. Analysis of qualitative and quantitative data sources suggests the use of an inquiry process is centrally important to building capacity for school improvement, and a vehicle for developing and distributing leadership. Within a sample of 16 schools where reform processes are most mature, the principal's role shifts to focus more narrowly on key personnel issues, framing questions and supporting inquiry processes. Findings provide evidence of the efficacy of policy strategies rooted in new understandings of school leadership.

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Offei, Isaac, Ernest Kissi, and Edward Badu. "Public procurement policies and strategies for capacity building of SME construction firms in Ghana." International Journal of Procurement Management 9, no. 4 (2016): 455. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijpm.2016.077705.

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