A virtual community based on knowledge sharing and exchange forms a social network for communication, exchange, and sharing of knowledge and information.
This bottom-up process considers the basin as an ecological unit that can harmonize relationships between water, land, and community based on knowledge of seasonal patterns (Chowdhury and Ward 2004), floodplain fisheries (Craig et al. 2004), vegetation (Crawford 2003), living with flood (Cunny 1991), and watershed (Isaak and Hubert 2001).
Similarly institutions like the Brahmaputra Board and policy makers working on natural disaster management as well as the epistemic community should encourage the incorporation of place based knowledge of the community to be intergrade to mainstream flood management planning.
This study provides evidence to indicate that a multi-faceted community based approach increased knowledge of health risks associated with FGM/C and changed attitudes, towards this practice.
Researchers suggest that successful strategies for effecting change are collegial and community based, focus on content knowledge, and utilize concrete and coherent active-learning opportunities (Emerson and Mosteller, 2000; Garet et al., 2001).
All these types of projects can have community based approaches and this knowledge base needs to be tapped so that peace-building as a process, and as a Canadian foreign policy initiative, is robust and multi-sectoral, drawing on the extensive experience of our development and humanitarian assistance agencies.
Academic service learning is about developing and translating academic knowledge while community based action research responds to community-identified needs through civic engagement [ 36].
In general, with the exception of the Arabic and Sudanese community, knowledge of community based Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) providing health care services was poor.
UNICEF is also advocating pilot community based services that strengthen the knowledge and skills of caregivers at home and community, as well as those who make decision at the national level.
In addition, community-based initiatives that can incorporate the energy and experience of inner city residents, and the special knowledge of community based institutions are needed to assure that interventions and policy initiatives are effective in identifying solutions to the epidemic of obesity and related chronic disease in inner cities [ 74, 75].
She asserts that a fundamental aspect of British soap is the idea of supporting members of community, based on the sharing of intimate knowledge, allowing "practical and emotional needs to be met" within the enclosed community.
