Publication: Building Community: A Primer - 2018 update
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The Community Building Primer is a publication of Communities Reinvented, a Center of Excellence within the World Bank Group whose mission is to enable teams, units and departments to create and sustain communities of practice in a way that fosters learning, collaboration and innovation across the entire institution and beyond to drive real development impact. The Primer provides concrete steps and tools to help you build a community of practitioners and/or online community. The primer is divided into four sections: community design and building; community management; work book; and resources.
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āEisenberg, Ray. 2018. Building Community: A Primer - 2018 update. Ā© World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34014 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ā
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