Bridging The Gap Between Asset Capacity Building And Needs Assessment

Author : James W. Altschuld
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483321745

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Bridging the Gap Between Asset/Capacity Building and Needs Assessment by James W. Altschuld Pdf

In the groundbreaking text, Bridging the Gap Between Asset/Capacity Building and Needs Assessment, James W. Altschuld examines the synthesis of two antithetical ideas—needs assessment and asset/capacity building. At the heart of this approach is a focus on assessing the strengths and assets that communities have and demonstrating how to make those assets stronger. The author explains the foundation of needs assessment and asset/capacity building, discusses their similarities and differences, and offers a new hybrid framework that includes eight steps for how they can be done jointly for better results. The author then applies a checklist for judging the quality of this approach to six cases that represent real-world applications of hybrid principles. The last chapter demonstrates how such efforts might be studied in the future, emphasizing ways findings and results from hybrid ventures can be used effectively. A wide range of examples, tables, and figures appear throughout, with insightful discussion questions at the end of each chapter to facilitate meaningful discourse.

Author : Darlene F. Russ-Eft,Catherine M. Sleezer
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544342320

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Case Studies in Needs Assessment by Darlene F. Russ-Eft,Catherine M. Sleezer Pdf

Case Studies in Needs Assessment offers insights about the practice of needs assessment in dynamic, real-world organizations and communities. This book invites both novice and seasoned analysts to look over the shoulders of practitioners, to examine needs assessment practice in action, to grasp the real-world issues that arise, and to understand a variety of needs assessment strategies and challenges. Each case in this book examines the implementation of needs assessment in a specific situation, bridging needs assessment theories and actual practice. The book is organized around five major approaches: knowledge and skill assessment, job and task analysis, competency assessment, strategic needs assessment, and complex needs assessment. The last chapter summarizes lessons learned from all the case studies: it describes the insights and tricks of the trade that Darlene Russ-Eft and Catherine Sleezer gained from commissioning and reviewing these cases.

Author : James W. Altschuld,Ryan Watkins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119027690

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Needs Assessment: Trends and a View Toward the Future by James W. Altschuld,Ryan Watkins Pdf

Explore multiple practical and theoretical dimensions of needs assessment. This volume focuses exclusively on this essential topic for guiding decisions—examining subjects such as: the importance of defining needs, implementing assessments in public and private-sector organizations, aligning needs with assets and capacity assessments, how assessments factor into meaningful change at the organizational and society levels how to apply needs assessments in culturally diverse contexts conducting international needs assessments, and the impact of technologies on needs assessment methods. This issue will help professionals within public and private organizations conduct useful assessments, ones leading to results that can be applied in decisions. This is the 144th issue in the New Directions for Evaluation series from Jossey-Bass. It is an official publication of the American Evaluation Association.

Author : Ryan Watkins,Maurya West Meiers,Yusra Visser
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389010

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A Guide to Assessing Needs by Ryan Watkins,Maurya West Meiers,Yusra Visser Pdf

Making informed decisions is the essential beginning to any successful development project. Before the project even begins, you can use needs assessment approaches to guide your decisions. This book is filled with practical strategies that can help you define the desired results and select the most appropriate activities for achieving them.

Author : James W. Altschuld,David Devraj Kumar
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412975841

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Needs Assessment by James W. Altschuld,David Devraj Kumar Pdf

In 1995, Witkin and Altschuld proposed a three phase process model of needs assessment: - Preassessment (learning as much as possible from existing, inexpensive sources) - Assessment (collecting new information about the needs in consideration) - Postassessment (prioritizing needs, understanding their causes, and translating priorities into action plans for organizations). The model has been extensively re-conceptualized and forms the basis for this book. The content includes a user-oriented approach to a comprehensive overview of the three phases and the 14 key steps necessary to implement them. Numerous examples and practical illustrations are given throughout the text as guidance for needs assessors and those who do research on the topic. An extensive glossary of needs-related terms and an outline of a final report are also provided. The book is the first one in the Needs Assessment KIT with connections to the other four.

Author : Terrence Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Active learning
ISBN : UOM:39015056320388

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Actionable Learning by Terrence Morrison Pdf

Author : Melvin Delgado,Denise Humm-Delgado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199735846

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Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice by Melvin Delgado,Denise Humm-Delgado Pdf

Needs assessments identify the needs for services, answering questions about who needs these services and in what priority. Asset assessments focuses on existing resources; combing both needs and asset assesments helps find the gaps in these services and is useful to organizations and communities.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960

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Communities in Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States Pdf

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : James W. Altschuld,Belle Ruth Witkin
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 076190932X

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From Needs Assessment to Action by James W. Altschuld,Belle Ruth Witkin Pdf

Provides tools for analyzing and collating needs assessment data in order to use it to make decisions and plan activities.

Author : Charles Lusthaus,Inter-American Development Bank,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0889369984

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Organizational Assessment by Charles Lusthaus,Inter-American Development Bank,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Organizational Assessment: A framework for improving performance

Author : Adiel N. Mbabu,Andy Hall (Researcher in agriculture and economics)
Publisher : LINK Ltd.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9789280850000

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Capacity Building for Agricultural Research for Development by Adiel N. Mbabu,Andy Hall (Researcher in agriculture and economics) Pdf

Author : New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UCLA:L0091376087

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Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives Pdf

Author : James W. Altschuld,Jeffry L. White
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412975575

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Needs Assessment by James W. Altschuld,Jeffry L. White Pdf

This volume four of The Needs Assessment Kit provides a good overview of how to: analyze two distinct types of data; pull them together in a meaningful way; and to derive priorities from the collation of the information that has been generated by the needs assessment. What should result is a stronger foundation for needs-related decisions and one that will stand the scrutiny of involved and questioning audiences. áThis text offers guidance not absolute solutions to help needs assessment committees (NACs) and their facilitators work through the complexities of analysis and subsequent prioritization.

Author : American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Publisher : AASHTO
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781560514992

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AASHTO Transportation Asset Management Guide by American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Pdf

Aims to encourage transportation agencies to address strategic questions as they confront the task of managing the surface transportation system. Drawn form both national and international knowledge and experience, it provides guidance to State Department of Transportation (DOT) decision makers, as well as county and municipal transportation agencies, to assist them in realizing the most from financial resources now and into the future, preserving highway assets, and providing the service expected by customers. Divided into two parts, Part one focuses on leadership and goal and objective setintg, while Part two is more technically oriented. Appendices include work sheets and case studies.

Author : Belle Ruth Witkin,James W. Altschuld
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0803958102

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Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments by Belle Ruth Witkin,James W. Altschuld Pdf

"Sometimes a book appears on your desk that successfully defines a field. You look at the book and say "thank you." Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments is such a book. . . . This book is clearly grounded in program planning and is not an afterthought or add-on to some other field. . . . I am excited to see this book appear in print. It clearly fills a niche that has been empty for some time: a practical approach to learning about and conducting needs assessments. . . . This is a marvelous book that should make a significant contribution to the field." --From the Foreword by Nick Eastmond, Utah State University "While it has the depth and breadth to be used in a classroom, Planning and Conducting Needs Assessments is written simply and directly enough to be a hands-on guide for needs assessment users and practitioners. The framework proposed by the authors is excellent in that it is readily understood and focuses attention on the most important details/issues in needs assessment practice. The fact that they also present an explanation of so many tools, including examples, makes the book required reading for anyone intending to plan or contract for a needs assessment." --John Theiss, Director of Planning and Evaluation, Texas