Six pilot social innovation projects, supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, demonstrate how this is already happening: universities directly collaborating with communities, addressing social issues through citizen engagement.
With his populist platform, and policy of collaborating with communities to solve Indonesia's problems, his election has generated great hope among his supporters.
In San Francisco, for example, the Adult Probation Office is collaborating with community agencies on a "one-stop re-entry center" to link people on probation with an array of stabilizing services (Community Corrections Partnership Executive Committee 2014).
This approach should involve community health workers collaborating with community groups to promote awareness of NCD risk factors and to help individuals make changes in their lives.
The AGRIS team is aware of this challenge and is trying to look for a solution to geographical accessibility by collaborating with community partners.
The importance of collaborating with community health workers to provide appropriate care to pregnant migrant Turkish women is noted in the study by Hesselink and Harting [ 57] where Dutch midwives and physiotherapists worked with ethnic Turkish community health workers.
Matobo District currently has 19 international (e.g., Save the Children, Mildmay, Red Cross and World Vision) and local (e.g., Maranatha, Sikhethimpilo and Jairos Jiri) organisations that are collaborating with community members and groups.
A prior study projected lower average CDSMP costs for agencies with higher numbers of participants over time compared to the other agencies with lower numbers of participants, which emphasizes the importance of strong recruitment efforts and collaborating with community partners [ 15].
Similarly, the Community-Based ParTableatory Research projects (Table 1; Cummins et al., 2010) immerse students in the scientific and social dimensions of a local issue (e.g., water quality) by collaborating with community stakeholders throughout the process of conducting their research on the problem.
With donations from Mr. Brandt's photography supporters, the year-old organization now has 120 rangers, all local, who collaborate with communities to reduce poaching and conflicts between farmers and wildlife.
These are places where Project Seahorse, the organization I direct, has for many years collaborated with communities on marine conservation ventures -- places where we have many friends, places we love.
