Fostering organizational change through a community-based initiative.

The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative: Fostering Evidence-based Organizational Change and Development in a Resource- constrained Setting

Power, pleasure, pain, and shame: assimilating gender and sexuality into community-centred reproductive health and HIV prevention programmes in India.

Inspired by the vision of the Millennium Declaration, CARE and ICRW (International Centre for Research on Women) partnered with the Inner Spaces, Outer Faces Initiative (ISOFI) to learn how to more effectively integrate gender and sexuality into CARE's sexual and reproductive health programmes. Drawing from lessons learned from gender mainstreaming, ISOFI focuses initially on fostering personal...

Results from the Data & Democracy initiative to enhance community-based organization data and research capacity.

OBJECTIVES In an era of community-based participatory research and increased expectations for evidence-based practice, we evaluated an initiative designed to increase community-based organizations' data and research capacity through a 3-day train-the-trainer course on community health assessments. METHODS We employed a mixed method pre-post course evaluation design. Various data sources colle...

An Innovative Approach Can Reduce The Cost and Complexity of Delivering Care

Mr. Funis « president and chief executive officer, St. Vincent Hospitals and Health Sendees, Indianapolis. T he patient-focused care concept is relatively new to healthcare organizat ions in the Uni ted Sta tes . Although implementing such a program of care entails a major organizational transition, its rewards benefit staff, as well as patients. Through its Care2001 program, St. Vincent Hospit...

Building Communities among Software Engineers: The ViSEK Approach to Intra- and Inter-Organizational Learning

The paper presents the concepts of the Distributed Center of Competency in Software-Engineering (ViSEK): a German national initiative to encourage intraand inter-organizational learning in the software industry. Taking a socio-cultural stance, learning is understood as enculturation in a community of practice. So community building becomes an important objective when fostering intraand inter-or...