Developing Capacities and Agency in Complex Times

Knowledge management in supporting collaborative innovation community capacity building

“…Community capacity building is "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" (Deorah, 2007;Kenny and Clarke, 2010;Miller, 2010). It is a conceptual approach that focuses on understanding the obstacles that inhibit people, governments, organizations and non-governmental organizations from realizing their developmental goals while enhancing their abilities for achieving measureable and sustainable results and improving and building their own collective commitments, resources and skills (Kenny and Clarke, 2010).…”

“…CICCB is a participative model for focusing on consensus building, sustaining multiple and diverse networks and relationships, identifying and celebrating community strengths and assets, generating broad-based community involvement toward mutual gains, developing whole community visions for the future and identifying steps that can be taken to make such visions real (Miller, 2010;Chen, 2012). Such a way of thinking is important for increasing the success of innovation as the participants engage in collaborative problem solving with shared knowledge for mutual benefits and complementary advantages while sharing difficulties and obtaining greater resources and recognition when facing competition for finite resources (Wagner, 2004;Cui and Wang, 2011).…”

“…The tremendous potential of collaborative innovation for improving the competiveness of individual organizations leads to an increasing amount of resources and efforts being spent for developing various collaborative innovation communities in organizations and for building the capacity of such communities (Gloor, 2006;Bommert, 2010;Cui and Wang, 2011). In this context, collaborative innovation community capacity building (CICCB) is about the development of social constructs to achieve the wholeness synergy on social innovation, science and technology innovation, economic and political reform and social changes through the engagement of various participants in collaborative problem solving and collective vision building (Miller, 2010;Ministry of Education of China, 2012). Much research has been done on the mechanisms, models and strategies for collaborative innovation and the demand for improving the performance of collaborative innovation (Cowan et al, 2007;Chen and Yang, 2012).…”

Understanding the Basin and its Dynamics

“…It is a magnificent opportunity to support, facilitate and resource our communities to find their own solutions for a more resilient future. Elsewhere in this book (Chapter 11;Hoggett et al 2008;Miller 2010; Wentworth Group 2010) a number of writers explain how to empower individuals and groups of people by providing the skills they need to effect change in their own communities. These skills are often concentrated around building social cohesion through the formation of large social groups working for a common agenda.…”

Postcolonialism and national HRD: understanding contemporary challenges to skills development in sub-Saharan Africa

“…policies and are also central to our understanding of the context within which national policies are formulated and implemented. Inadequate understanding of the contextual subtleties influencing the NHRD process means that strategically important questions are often left out in the NHRD policy processes in many developing countries (DCs), leading to a failure to explicitly link skills development efforts to local priorities (Miller, 2010;Otoo et al, 2009). Perhaps, this helps explain why the outcomes of several efforts aimed at improving national human resource capabilities in many SSA countries and other DCs have persistently fallen short of expectations (World Bank, 2018).…”