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1. Community capacity building often refers to strengthening the skills and competencies of people and communities in small businesses and local grassroots movements in order to achieve their goals and overcome particular issues that may cause exclusion.
2. Community capacity building is about promoting the ‘capacity’ of local communities to develop, implement and sustain their own solutions to problems in a way that helps them shape and exercise control over their physical, social, economic and cultural environments.
3. Community capacity building is defined as the "process of developing and strengthening the skills, instincts, abilities, processes and resources that organizations and communities need to survive, adapt, and thrive in the fast-changing world.
4. Community capacity building is the continuous process required to foster the pride and appropriate local leadership that allows communities, through their members, to take responsibility for their own development.
5. Capacity building involves the transfer of competencies necessary for community groups or individuals to identify their issues and address their concerns. In the case of community-based agencies this involves improving their effectiveness and/or the quality of the services they provide to consumers .
francis1897 answered the question on August 24, 2022 at 11:05