Financial Capability and Asset Building: Building Evidence for Community Practice

Building practice-based evidence.

The Building of a Community of Practice

The importance of Communities of Practice (CoPs) has now been evidenced and recognized by several authors on the one hand and by practitioners on the other, whether it be in educational contexts or in companies. Generally speaking, one could define a CoP as a network of people sharing a common practice, which makes a CoP a very particular kind of network. As quoted from Wenger (1998), who is on...

Building Customization Capability

Many computer companies are seeking to grow their customization capability. As the market becomes increasingly commoditized, computer companies view customization as a way to differentiate their products and offer customer value. However, the implementation of customization programs has been difficult for many organizations. Sun Microsystems launched a customization program called Customer Read...

Building State Capability

The northeast region of India remains fraught with severe violence, poor growth and acute frustration among its youth. Success of policies to resolve the region’s crisis has proved less than encouraging. What could be the way out of the violence–poor growth trap? This paper argues that a key determinant of the instability in the region is the absence of the effective role of the state: to provi...

Building healthier communities for children and families: applying asset-based community development to community pediatrics.

Social capital is the power of social networks and relationships, which constitute the social environment. Social capital has been associated with many measures of health and development. Asset-based community development (ABCD) provides a framework to increase social capital and build stronger, healthier communities for children. ABCD is a strength-based approach to community building that emp...