So, you’ve engaged your community. You’ve asked residents and stakeholders to share ideas, cast votes, or take part in a survey. You might’ve even asked them to allocate budgets or invited them to an online workshop. And now, your community engagement results are in. If you’ve asked your community to voice...
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Local governments have a wealth of knowledge to share. We know that tapping into the collective intelligence of our 300+ local governments, organizations, and partners we work with could result in a profound collective impact. To harness the power of our network across the world, we’re building a brand-new community...
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Studies show that people across the globe developed closer connections with the natural spaces surrounding them during the pandemic. For a long time, parks, lakes, and forests offered us the opportunity to move in the outside world with a relative sense of freedom intact. As we focus on community recovery...
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Public spaces should be equitably distributed, open to everyone, and inclusively designed. It’s no wonder that many urban planning processes now focus on placemaking, the people-centered approach to planning and design of public spaces. The inequities of community development were hard to ignore in 2020. Whether you lived close to...
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Combining online and offline participation is often the best engagement option to reach a wide audience. Almere, a city in the Dutch province of Flevoland, decided to create a comprehensive strategy to support its older population. A mixed approach: offline vs online participation Before there were online platforms, workshops, and...
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As we’re slowly but surely making it to the other side of the COVID-19 crisis, it’s time to set our focus on recovery. Where do we go from here? How do we rebuild our communities better? And how do we make sure we emerge from these challenges together and stronger?...
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One of the key actions to improving healthcare provision is to work directly with community members on the issues affecting their wellbeing. The WHO has identified community engagement as fundamental to any strategy addressing health goals. Our most recent client event brought together health organisations from across the UK, including...
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