title: Collaborative capacity building in complex community-based health partnerships:  a model for translating knowledge into action.
abstract: Partnerships among multiple organizations across a range of sectors that bring together multiple perspectives are a common way of addressing community health and building capacity. To function successfully, partnerships depend on the careful orchestration of a collaborative culture and the facilitation of collective action. Using a systematic method, we developed a synthesis of evidence about collaborative capacity building, integrating this diverse knowledge base into a usable framework. Seventeen published models of collaborative capacity building met the inclusion criteria and were combined to derive a matrix that could guide the actions of those responsible for partnership management. This matrix may make the process of developing partnerships less complicated in future.
authors: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia. e.kendall@griffith.edu.au
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Kendall
authors: Heidi
authors: H
authors: Muenchberger
authors: Naomi
authors: N
authors: Sunderland
authors: Michelle
authors: M
authors: Harris
authors: Deborah
authors: D
authors: Cowan
mesh_terms: D057191:Capacity Building / Q000379:methods*; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D019359:Knowledge; D017146:Models, Organizational; D018511:Systems Integration