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  • Health Promotion Funding
  • Resource Mobilization

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  • Traditional health promotion funding mechanisms often neglect foundational elements for community well-being.
  • Recent research critically examines the link between funding processes and the activation of local community capacities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore administrators' and community workers' understandings of resources essential for successful funded health promotion programs.
  • To identify how communities leverage resources to enhance program effectiveness.

Main Methods:

  • Thematic analysis of 33 interviews with public health policy/program administrators and community workers/volunteers.
  • Exploration of participants' perspectives on necessary resources for program success and community capacity.

Main Results:

  • Administrators focused on traditional resources (funding, staffing), while community members highlighted psychological/sociological resources ('soft infrastructure' like trust, hope).
  • Both groups emphasized the importance of networks and relationships.
  • Resources like information and physical amenities gain value through local relay and symbolic meaning; funding instability can damage community capacity.

Conclusions:

  • Health promotion funding and scale-up processes may underestimate critical resources, especially for disadvantaged communities.
  • Funders should develop strategies to continuously support diverse resource growth within communities, separate from program-specific funding.