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标题：Capacity Building and Empowerment: A panacea and a challenge for agency-university engagement
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作者：Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar ; Fabricio Balcazar ; Edurne García Iriarte 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Community Research and Engagement
印刷版ISSN：1836-3393
出版年度：2008
卷号：1
页码：179-196
出版社：University of Technology, Sydney
摘要：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.