Capacity building in health promotion, Part 2: Whose use? And with what measurement?

Abstract

Capacity building has been a topic in health promotion literature for several years. In our previous article, we discussed community capacity building as both means and end in health promotion work, and reviewed seven theoretical and empirical models of community capacity which provide a total of nine separate capacity domains. In this article we discuss the parallel tracking of community capacity building in health-promotion program planning, implementation and evaluation, and describe workshop methodologies for incorporating capacity assessments within health-promotion program planning. We conclude with a discussion of measurement options for community capacity building.