Capacity Building for Community-Based Development

Websites

• Appreciative Approach to Capacity Building: The Impact of Practice, Praxis Note 28, INTRAC, (January, 2007).
• Capacity.org
• Capacity Building resources, from Impact Alliance.
• Capacity Building publications from International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC).
• Capacity Development Resource Book, from UNDP
• Centre for Sustainable Community Development resides at Simon Fraser University. The Centre supports the sustainable development of communities in British Columbia, Canada, and internationally. The Centre uses the resources of the University to teach and encourage sustainable community development.
• Community Tool Box provides step-by-step guidance in community-building skills.
• The Development of Capacity, by Allan Kaplan, (1999). This document is the tenth in the series of NGLS Development Dossiers.
• DOSA (Discussion-Oriented Organizational Self-Assessment), B. Levinger & E. Bloom, (1997).  (65K pdf)
• EcoViva, formerly the Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America (FSSCA), supports environmental sustainability, social justice and peace for communities in Central America.
• ELDIS Resource Guide on Participation
• Green Economics Website is based on the book Designing the Green Economy: The Postindustrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization, by Brian Milani. Green economics deals with the world of work, human needs, the Earth's materials and how they blend together. Resources are available.
• Holistic Management International works for effective land management and renewal practices. Its objective is to help farmers, ranchers, public land managers and development organizations to increase profitability and productivity of the land. Resources available include courses, workshops and a newsletter.
• IDS Bulletin, online access for StFX users only.
• International Development Enterprises (IDE) strikes at the roots of rural poverty in the world's least developed countries. A news archive, media library, articles, technical papers and newletters are available.
• INTRAC (International NGO Training and Research Centre)
  • Organisational Capacity Building resources.
• The Market of the Majority: The BOP Opportunity Map of Latin America and the Caribbean
  The majority of the world's people survive on incomes which do not meet basic human needs. These people are the base of the economic pyramid (BOP). Prepared by Development through Enterprise Project, World Resources Institute for Inter-American Development Bank. (473K pdf)
• Network capacity analysis: A toolkit for assessing and building capacities for high quality responses to HIV: rapid assessment guide, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2007. (498K pdf)
• Organization Development Network (ODNet), an international association whose members practice organization development as an applied behavioural science.
• PSO is a Dutch organisation for NGOs working on capacity building in developing countries.
• UNDP Capacity Development Site
• World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) contains resources related to sustainability, democracy and ownership of credit unions.