What Explains Community Coalition Effectiveness?

Zakocs, Ronda C.; Edwards, Erika M.

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2005.12.004

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“…Strong evidence suggests a link between effective collaborations to enhance population health and leadership that inspires vision, commitment, resources, inclusion, and action. 24,50,51 An evaluation of 39 partnerships in which local health departments were central showed that health agencies who worked well with community groups had strong, dedicated leaders who used inclusive planning processes, creative financing measures, flexible organizational arrangements, and communication skills to promote collaborations. 52 Theoretical and empirical studies also suggest that organizational elements such as climate, values, mission, and preferences influence performance of the public health system.…”

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“…Initiatives that have dedicated personnel to reach out into the community, sustain member relationships, and foster cohesion are better able to achieve their objectives. 23,24,[50][51][52][53][54] Social relationships essential to participatory public health research are similarly dependent on people and time. 23 Problems arise, however, when funder expectations about programmatic timeframes are at odds with the extended periods practitioners typically need to establish robust ties in the community.…”

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Local Health Department Capacity for Community Engagement and Its Implications for Disaster Resilience

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Morhard

2013

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, an

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Over the past decade, community engagement has become a central tenet of US federal doctrine on public health emergency preparedness. Little is known, however, about how the vision of a ready, aware, and involved populace has translated into local practice, or which conditions thus far have advanced community involvement in what is typically considered the province of government authorities and emergency professionals. In 2011-12, to help close that knowledge gap, investigators carried out semistructured qualitative interviews with practitioners (N = 25) from 7 local health departments about which conditions have advanced or inhibited community engagement in public health emergency preparedness. Among the organizational factors identified as enabling local health departments' involvement of community residents and groups in emergency preparedness were a supportive agency leadership and culture, sufficient staffing and programmatic funding, interested and willing partners, and external triggers such as federal grants and disaster experiences that spotlighted the importance of community relationships to effective response. Facing budget and staff cuts, local health departments feel increasingly constrained in efforts to build trusted and lasting preparedness ties with community partners. At the same time, some progress in preparedness partnerships may be possible in the context of agency leadership, culture, and climate that affirms the value of collaboration with the community.

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Local Health Department Capacity for Community Engagement and Its Implications for Disaster Resilience

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2013

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“…This awareness often becomes the basis of coalition building across networks, where agents at different positions are drawn together to deal with a common concern (Zakocs 2006; see also Pires 2011). Problems also generate action and change from these communities, given the common argument that "[i]nstitutional change and improvement are motivated more by knowledge of problems than by knowledge of success" (Cameron 1986: 67).…”

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Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

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Pritchett²,

2013

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Many reform initiatives in developing countries fail to achieve sustained improvements in performance because they are merely isomorphic mimicry-that is, governments and organizations pretend to reform by changing what policies or organizations look like rather than what they actually do. In addition, the flow of development resources and legitimacy without demonstrated improvements in performance undermines the impetus for effective action to build state capability or improve performance. This dynamic facilitates "capability traps" in which state capability stagnates, or even deteriorates, over long periods of time even though governments remain engaged in developmental rhetoric and continue to receive development resources. How can countries escape capability traps? We propose an approach, Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA), based on four core principles, each of which stands in sharp contrast with the standard approaches. First, PDIA focuses on solving locally nominated and defined problems in performance (as opposed to transplanting preconceived and packaged "best practice" solutions). Second, it seeks to create an authorizing environment for decision-making that encourages positive deviance and experimentation (as opposed to designing projects and programs and then requiring agents to implement them exactly as designed). Third, it embeds this experimentation in tight feedback loops that facilitate rapid experiential learning (as opposed to enduring long lag times in learning from ex post "evaluation"). Fourth, it actively engages broad sets of agents to ensure that reforms are viable, legitimate, relevant, and supportable (as opposed to a narrow set of external experts promoting the top-down diffusion of innovation).

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“…Grassroots mobilization was generally described as central to all other strategies, which included creation or enforcement of laws, meeting with elected officials, media advocacy, working with police/law enforcement, education and training, direct action, changing community norms, and negotiating with store owners and community members. The centrality of grassroots mobilization, including creating a shared sense of purpose, fostering collaboration, building relational capacity, and leadership development have been noted in other literature reviewing effective community coalitions (Foster-Fishman, Berkowitz, Lounsbury, Jacobson, & Allen, 2001;Zakocs & Edwards, 2006). At the same time, the specific opportunities for building leadership skills, such as documenting and reporting on local billboard placement and content or training for testimony at a public hearing, were highly linked to local context.…”

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Strategies Employed by Inner-City Activists to Reduce Alcohol-Related Problems and Advance Social Justice

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Herd

2014

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

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Abstract:This study explored strategies employed by activists engaged in efforts to change policies and laws related to selling and promoting alcoholic beverages based on in-depth interviews with 184 social activists in seven U.S. major cities. Nine strategies aimed at improving local conditions and influencing policy were described by activists across regional contexts. Grassroots mobilization was central to all other strategies, which included creation or enforcement of laws, meeting with elected officials, media advocacy, working with police/law enforcement, education and training, direct action, changing community norms, and negotiating with store owners. Key Words:Alcohol policy, environmental prevention, racial minorities, community activism, urban populations, grassroots organizing Acknowledgements:

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What Explains Community Coalition Effectiveness?

Cited by 318 publications

References 87 publications

Local Health Department Capacity for Community Engagement and Its Implications for Disaster Resilience

Local Health Department Capacity for Community Engagement and Its Implications for Disaster Resilience

Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

Strategies Employed by Inner-City Activists to Reduce Alcohol-Related Problems and Advance Social Justice

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