In 2014 Mornington Peninsula Shire Council in Victoria, Australia embarked on a community engagement program as part of its review of waste management. The engagement program involved three activities - an online forum, a telephone survey and a face-to-face deliberative forum. The program was successful in engaging a large number...
Meet Me at the Bell Tower ( [email protected] ) is a community initiated started by the group Aboriginal Youth Opportunities based in Winnipeg, focusing on “bringing people together at the neighbourhood bell tower to demand an end to violence”.
The Supportive Housing Fund was created to give low-income families the opportunity to not only apply for subsidized housing, but to be part of the planning and development process.
The original version of this case study first appeared on Vitalizing Democracy in 2010 and was a contestant for the 2011 Reinhard Mohn Prize. It was originally submitted by Jenny van Skiver . Public engagement was at the center of the National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures, a...
Hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the city of New Orleans in the State of Louisiana, in the United States, needed a formal citizen participation structure. 80% of the city had to be rebuilt, thus requesting a lot of decisions that would impact the life of communities. Citizen engagement was...