Community Capacity Building - A Review of the Literature

Fiona Verity, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Administration and Social Work at Flinders University of South Australia was commissioned to prepare a report, which both captured the capacity of communities to shape, lead and contribute to their own well being and provided a critical overview of the conceptual thinking informing community capacity building with exploration of the implications for practice.

This report has been written primarily for people working with communities, from the health and community sectors and non government organisations. However it will also be of interest to students, academics, teachers and other professional staff who would like to learn more about the conceptual thinking informing community capacity building.