Making community participation meaningful : a handbook for development and assessment

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Making community participation meaningful : a handbook for development and assessment

Danny Burns ... [et al.]

Policy Press, 2004

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"Published for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation"--T.p. verso

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This handbook is a companion volume to What works in assessing community participation? (The Policy Press, 2004) which documents the results of the road testing of two earlier frameworks for assessing community participation - Benchmarking community involvement in regeneration (Yorkshire Forward, 2000) and Auditing community participation: An assessment handbook (The Policy Press, 2000). Making community participation meaningful outlines key considerations that are necessary to ensure that community participation is effective; provides detailed sets of questions to enable stakeholders to assess the extent to which the indicators of success are being met; highlights a variety of resources which can be used by community groups to generate information and insight into the key issues and offers the real prospect of a commonly accepted assessment framework which has the authority to be adopted across sectors.

Table of Contents

  • SECTION ONE: Introduction: What is the purpose of such a detailed framework? What is community participation?
  • Why is community participation essential?
  • Key principles which have underpinned our work
  • What these frameworks can be used for
  • Key lessons from the road testing of the original frameworks
  • The structure of the framework
  • SECTION TWO: A new framework: Health warning
  • Applying the framework
  • Additional advice
  • SECTION THREE: Reflective questions for addressing key considerations: 1 What different communities exist within your locality?
  • 2 Who or what has determined the rules in your partnership or for your initiative?
  • 3 What is the balance of power within the partnership/initiative?
  • 4 In what ways, and to what extent, are communities involved?
  • 5 What level of investment is there in community participation?
  • 6 Is there strong leadership to support community participation?
  • 7 Do decision-making structures allow for local diversity?
  • 8 Are you able to work in a joined-up way?
  • 9 Are service structures compatible with community participation?
  • 10 Is your group able to run in an effective and inclusive way?
  • 11 How does your group or organisation ensure that its representatives on committees and boards are accountable?
  • 12 How effective is your information and communication?
  • 13 Do you have an effective approach to community and organisational learning?
  • 14 Has participation made any difference? SECTION FOUR: Tools and exercises: A: Speedos
  • B Steps and barriers
  • C: Stakeholder cards
  • D: Objectives exercise
  • E: Drawings and pictures
  • F: Spider's web maps
  • G: Level of participation scale
  • H: Meetings checklist
  • I: The 'hats' form
  • J: The decision trail
  • K: Recording meetings.

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