How Civy Helps In Community Engagement ?
Community engagement is the art of facilitating meaningful conversations between residents and cities-governments to generate insights and actions. These actions include making a decision & acting on issues facing the community, improving general services for the residents, and to plan for the future services to be delivered to the community. At a high-level, majority of the public ideally profess that u2018Community Engagementu2019 is caring about one and another, to create opportunities, and working together for the higher purpose to create something bigger-better together. Referencing the IAP2 (International Association for Public Participation) model, Civy is focused on engaging residents with the city-government departments to help address a variety of questions such as: uf06cWhy is the city-government proposing a project or policy? uf06cWhat decision is being made? uf06cHas a decision already been made? uf06cWhat input or type of input would be most appropriate? uf06cWhat are the challenges expected to come up? uf06cWhat is the best approach and compromises required to address the challenges? Civy provides the online-platform through which shared interests will be maintained between residents and their city-government officials; to save the energy and time; and to keep the focus on these shared interests until insightful analysis and outcomes are agreed. Based on our previous experiences in US, Australia, Singapore and India, Civy has determined the level of involvement considering a few factors: uf06cType of projects or services introduced by the city-government and its impacts to the community; uf06cTypes of participants and stakeholders and; their readiness for change and level of interest; uf06cAlternate options considered; uf06cAre the decision-makers acting independently or biased towards some options over the others ; is project deemed truly transparent. uf06cDifferent phases of a project and the changing needs along each phase of the various stakeholders; When initiating a project, the city may choose to inform the public that the project is beginning. In the next stage, the city may need input from the stakeholders and want feedback from them. This could involve consulting,,surveys, workshops, town-halls, focus groups. In this way, the project may use different levels of involvement at different stages.
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