Planning for Community Engagement
For this topic we will investigate tools with which to effectively engage with communities.
Effective community engagement
- is founded upon knowledge of the community concerned
- should empower communities and build community capacity to solve problems
and make decisions
- will result in partnerships, over the longer term
Our community engagement practice should make a difference!
We will discuss application of tools such as community mapping, social impact analysis, deliberative democratic processes, participative action research and empowerment evaluation.
By discussing the purpose of these tools we will clarify the objectives of engagement.
This topic is the focus of Assignments 2 and 3.
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