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public acceptability and engagement
How should I go about engaging the public?
More resources and web-links on Engagement and Facilitation
Engagement Links
- http://www.dialoguematters.co.uk/aarhusconvention.htm Convention from 1998 on rights to be consulted etc
- http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/local/planning/ FoE on planning and local involvement
- http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/beyond_nimbyism/deliverables/bn_wp1_2.pdf Cass (2007), an academic paper on the theoretical rationales behind participation and engagement approaches.
- http://www.publicspace.org.uk/people.html Consultancy with specialisation in public engagement,
- http://www.publicspace.org.uk/engagement.html
- http://www.consense.co.uk/default.asp Specialise in running online consultation, e.g. for windfarms
- http://www.dhcs.act.gov.au/engagement/engagement_training_resources A page of links to resources on participation, engagement and community consultation.
Facilitation Links
- http://www.e4ce.org/LearningCircles/Resources/Facilitation.htm Excellent list of questions to help effective facilitation of (particularly community) meetings.
- http://www.nea.gov/resources/Lessons/DUNCAN1.HTML Another excellent guide to planning meetings, and facilitating them.
- http://www.stewart-associates.co.uk/facilitation.aspx An introduction to what facilitation is, summed up as being “to enable groups of people to work together efficiently to complete a task and to get the best out of them in the time available.”
- http://www.iaf-forum.org/showthread.php?t=150 International Association of Facilitators discussions
- http://www.leadstrat.com/resources-articles-facilitators.html A page of links to facilitation and meetings resources
- http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/engagement.html UK quasi Government body, advising UK Government on Sustainable Development, with underlying belief that engagement and participation will be vital to shifting society onto a sustainable trajectory.
- http://www.involve.org.uk/deliberative_principles/ UK Charity promoting good practice in public involvement and engagement in decision-making.
- http://www.sciencewise-erc.org.uk/ Government-funded Expert Resource Centre, “providing guidance and hand-holding for policy makers with science-related issues they'd like to engage the public in.”
- http://www.ceffect.com/meaningful_participation.pdf (American) “activist’s guide to collaborative policy-making”
- http://www.penny-walker.co.uk/penny_walker_working_with.html List of people Penny Walker has worked with on group facilitation etc
- http://www.communityhelpers.co.uk/becoming-community-group-facilitator.html “Become A Community Group facilitator”: voluntary sector focus
