Bridging the Gap Between Asset/Capacity Building and Needs Assessment : Concepts and Practical Applications
Overview
In this groundbreaking text, the author examines the synthesis of two antithetical ideas--needs assessment and asset/capacity building. At the heart of this approach is a focus on assessing the strengths and assets that communities have and demonstrating how to make those assets stronger. The author explains the foundation of needs assessment and asset/capacity building, discusses their similarities and differences, and offers a new hybrid framework that includes eight steps for how they can be done jointly for better results. The author then applies a checklist for judging the quality of this approach to six cases that represent real-world applications of hybrid principles. The last chapter demonstrates how such efforts might be studied in the future, emphasizing ways findings and results from hybrid ventures can be used effectively. A wide range of examples, tables, and figures appear throughout, with insightful discussion questions at the end of each chapter to facilitate meaningful discourse.
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- ISBN-13: 9781452220192
- ISBN-10: 1452220190
- Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
- Publish Date: January 2014
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 264
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