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Section Seven: Networking and sustainability
Networking and sustainability: resources that support productive networks and relationships
We include the promotion of community engagement in this section, because effective engagement is often only possible if grounded in a serious attempt to ensure communities have the capacity to engage. The National Standards for Community Engagement, and in particular the Improvement standard,set out criteria and ground rules for community engagement. Community organisations can use these to monitor and improve their own accountability and effectiveness, as well as providing a checklist for ensuring their involvement is being properly supported and respected by the relevant public bodies. Further resources on community engagement are easily accessed through the Community Engagement How to … guide, which signposts a wide range of methods and tools that are useful, and which carry a strong emphasis on equalities. There is not a great deal of practical material on networking, although the CDX guide is helpful as a starting point.
Key resources
- National Standards for Community Engagement: support materials, SCDC / Communities Scotland
- Community Engagement How to... Guide, Scottish Centre for Regeneration
Recommended resources
- Good Practice Guidelines for Consulting and Engaging with Communities, Shetland Islands Council
- Making community participation meaningful, Danny Burns et al
- Networking Resource Pack, CDX
Other resources
- Participation Works! 21 techniques of community participation for the 21st century, New Economics Foundation
- Active partners: Benchmarking community participation, Yorkshire Forward
- Auditing community participation: An assessment handbook, Burns and Taylor
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