Community capacity building: A critical evaluation of the third sector approach

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 729-739

  Williams, Colin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4644224747     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2004.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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