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🌍 Citizen Led Impact: Redefining Community Engagement 🌍 How can communities actively shape the policies that impact their daily lives? Our latest blog post dives into Citizen Led Impact (CLI)—an approach that empowers citizens to take the lead in their communities' decision-making process. 💬 This week, we wrapped up the CLI training event with the Northern Ireland Local Government Association. This blog post provides insights into how this innovative model is transforming governance, highlighting key moments from the training held on October 14th and 15th. “The Citizen Led Impact course provides a wonderful opportunity to help build better communities across our cities, towns, and villages. This approach actively involves diverse voices, including those who are often underrepresented.” Cllr Alison Bennington, Northern Ireland Local Government Association President Discover how CLI is creating stronger, more inclusive communities by: 1. Encouraging inclusive participation. 2. Ensuring that local voices are heard in policy development. 3. Building resilience through citizen empowerment. 👉 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ekN2zM8F Let’s redefine community engagement together. 🚀 #CitizenLedImpact #CommunityEmpowerment #SocialProgress #PolicyInnovation #InclusiveGovernance #NILGA

This week #R2AImpactPractitioners highlights an insightful brief from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) It identifies 6 key mechanisms for enhancing citizen engagement in public service governance, fostering stronger community involvement and accountability. https://ow.ly/1uYS50SqPve

Best Practice Tip: Prioritizing connections and fostering trust helps ensure that residents feel heard and represented. Here are five collaborative strategies state and local governments can use to build lasting connections. https://hubs.ly/Q02w97j_0 #CommunityEngagement #PublicTrust PublicInput

Government communicators: Engagement is happening. If you’re not getting the responses you want, check out these best practices on how to leverage CBOs to reach the right people

Really great piece by Jackie Wehmeyer for ELGL's Morning Buzz! Local government leaders (and organizational leaders generally) will recognize this pattern right away - the organization builds systems, processes, and tactics for taking in ideas, feedback, observations, etc. Months of engaged planning and discussion take place. Then, at Zero Hour, a relatively small group "discovers" the initiative, and aims to slow it down or derail it. Local government leaders are then forced to go back and re-cover a bunch of ground to "get people up to speed" on the effort (or ditch it altogether). For what it's worth, I don't excuse communities who go at this surreptitiously - with quiet or closed discussions; who are then surprised by public opposition. But - when you've been public about the goals of the project; provided opportunities for robust, authentic, and meaningful public engagement; and provided regular, public updates along the way, local leaders should feel confident in moving these projects forward. Great piece Jackie! And, as always, thanks to ELGL: Engaging Local Government Leaders for providing this forum! #LocalGovernment #PublicEngagement #MorningBuzz

Proposals, or petitions, are a powerful engagement too for involving community members in shaping policy 🏡 Yet, some governments are cautious about adopting this bottom-up approach due to concerns around integration — from political considerations to practical operations issues. Join our webinar on October 24 to hear how community engagement practitioners have successfully implemented proposals. You’ll learn: 💡 Why they decided to take the leap 💡 How they designed their processes and organized them internally 💡 Best practices for implementing proposals in your own participation work And we’ll include a live demo of our Proposals module so you can see how smoothly it deals with these practical challenges. Sign up via the link in comments and we’ll look forward to seeing you there. Featuring: Wietse Van Ransbeeck Elisa Lironi Franz Gregor Winkler @and Stephanie McAuley.

Public participation—where citizens help shape and improve government programs—is key to creating open and transparent services. Thanks to contributions from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and GSA's PMA Learning Agenda: Public Participation Community Engagement Evidence Challenge, DigitalGov TTS-GSA has released the U.S. Public Participation Playbook. This playbook is a practical resource for government managers, offering best practices and performance metrics to evaluate and improve services through meaningful public engagement. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/gm6_vaqX 

Sometimes a small group of naysayers can have a disproportionate influence on local government decision-making. While the passion can come from a good place, it does not always reflect the entire community's thoughts. Jackie Wehmeyer shares ways to ensure meaningful projects and initiatives avoid getting derailed by a few loud voices. More: https://lnkd.in/gdpg93xJ

What are the challenges brought by a change of government? Register for our Community Cuppa and join the conversation. 📅 Date: August 16th 🔗 Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/ebtkRcfc #CommunityCuppa #GovernmentChange #Challenges #JoinUs

Where’s the new “challenge” commitment, Open Government Partnership? It’s not at the generic link to OGP, & it’s not listed at the USA’s page: https://lnkd.in/grBfevnd Where’s the press conference or release about it? Second, aren’t commitments supposed to be co-created with civil society as equal stakeholders? This one wasn’t. The framework referenced was under development before today. If so, why are you promoting an old commitment as a new one - and yet failing to highlight that the United States has now acted contrary to process three times now, including in this cycle? https://lnkd.in/grBfevnd Why are you helping our country openwash and undermining the civil society organizations and networks trying to hold the administration accountable for broken promises, weak commitments, and opaque communication?