Bridging The Gap Between Asset/Capacity Building And Needs Assessment: Concepts And Practical Applications

In the groundbreaking text, Bridging the Gap Between Asset/Capacity Building and Needs Assessment, James W. Altschuld examines the synthesis of two antithetical ideas?eeds 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.

• • Author: James W. Altschuld
• • Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• • Publication Date: Jan 09, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 264 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1452220190
• • ISBN-13: 9781452220192