Capacity building with older people through local authority and third-sector partnerships

Capacity-building for youth workers through community-based partnerships.

Although positive youth development (PYD) is increasingly influential in the field of youth programming, core knowledge and competencies for youth workers continue to be defined. Youth serving agencies throughout the United States face serious obstacles in the creation of a stable and well-trained workforce, despite the presence of many talented and resourceful individuals who work with youth i...

Building strength through partnerships.

the fall 2003 conference and annual meeting held in Ottawa in September. As we move forward, our work continues to be shaped by the vision of the Academy: to become a national voice for executive nurse leaders, to influence and participate in direction setting for healthcare policy, to contribute to the alignment and advancement of the national nursing agenda and to develop strong strategic coa...

Global health public-private partnerships: IAVI, partnerships and capacity building.

New developments in biotechnology and the need to overcome the lack of incentive for investment in vaccines for diseases affecting Africa have led to the promotion of product development public-private partnerships (PPP). Our work at the ESRC INNOGEN Research Centre assesses the way in which these collaborative mechanisms approach their mission of getting science to work for the poor and what t...

Capacity building through cross-sector partnerships: a multiple case study of a sport program in disadvantaged communities in Belgium

BACKGROUND Recent research has illustrated the need for cross-sector partnerships to tackle multidimensional problems such as health inequalities and sport and physical activity promotion. Capacity building is based on partnerships and has demonstrated effectiveness in tackling these multidimensional problems. This study aims to explain how cross-sector partnerships build capacity at the practi...

Third sector partnerships for public service delivery: an evidence review