Government-community engagement - Key learning and emerging principles
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This paper documents researchers'' experiences in engaging with communities and shares these experiences with other practitioners and the wider stakeholder community.
Engaging citizens in policy making is part of good governance. Governments are under increasing pressure to enhance transparency and accountability. Information sharing, consultation and participation are fast gaining currency in civic democracy as tools for government - community engagement. Therefore for governments to respond to these challenges, they need to build a commitment and capacity for civic engagement. In June 2000, the Labour Market Policy Group (LMPG) and Community Employment Group (CEG), both service units within the Department of Labour jointly initiated a three–year pilot project designed to use research as a conduit/bridge for developing a closer connection between government policy and ''communities''. The project involved researchers, community development fieldworkers and policy analysts working with three research communities to build grounded knowledge about the processes of community economic development and feed this learning back to relevant policy agencies through an ongoing information exchange cycle. This paper discusses the learnings of the project team in engaging with communities and identifies emerging principles for other practitioners and policy makers.
Author: Meenakshi Sankar
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