Community Development & Capacity Building
Are you looking for support to build capacity and engage your community and your region? This series of resources have been used in a comprehensive Capacity Building Strategy that was implemented in BC from 2007-2010. The resources found in this collection are some of the most useful and helpful tools available. To encourage peer learning, we've also made it possible to leave comments about the resources to enable you to share your experience of using them in your community.
Managing Projects
Learn how to improve your project design approach and project management skills and what steps you can take to ensure the long term sustainability of your initiatives. Click here to explore this collection of resources
Community Engagement
Explore a variety of types of community engagement processes and learn how to begin to incorporate community engagement into your decision-making processes. Click here to access this selection of Community Engagement methods.
Collaboration & Network Development
Are you considering developing a partnership with another organization or looking to connect multiple organizations to share knowledge and resources? Learn more about how to plan, monitor and evaluate collaborative partnerships and form strong networks. Click here to explore Collaboration & Network Development resources.
Leadership & Management
Are you looking for new ways to build the local capacity of leaders to effect change in the community? These resources cover a range of scenarios for cultivating leadership. Click here to explore this collection of Leadership and Management resources.
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About the Capacity Building Strategy
The Canadian Cancer Society is a proud member of the British Columbia Healthy Living Alliance (BCHLA), a group of health-related organizations working in disease prevention. To help meet targets set in BCHLA’s prevention agenda the Society led a comprehensive strategy to work with communities and build capacity for healthy living.
The Community Capacity Building Strategy focuses on enhancing the skills, abilities, resources, and commitment of communities and community members to care for each other, nurture unique talents and leadership, and act on challenges and opportunities. As a result, individuals and groups have been able to increase their ability to impact the health and vitality of their communities in a positive, sustainable manner.
