Community Engagement

This guide signposts and provides details on the types of methods which may be most appropriate for achieving different levels of engagement.

During this unprecedented time changes have had to be made to how we engage with communities.

The Carnegie UK Trust’s Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland project provides support to enable Community Planning Partnerships to implement a local wellbeing outcomes approach.

This guide has been prepared by Community Places to accompany the ABC Community Planning Partnership’s ‘Our Community Engagement Strategy’ which outlines two important frameworks which the partnership has committed to using in the planning of its engagement processes.

Community planning is about improving the quality of life of people who live and work in our Borough.

Rethinking Engagement developed out of a first phase project, Rethinking Nimbyism, which looked at the issue of community engagement and the siting of large-scale renewable energy technology (RET) in rural areas which has become a divisive issue in some communities.

The number of renewable energy developments in rural areas has grown significantly in the past decade and the siting of large scale renewable energy projects has become a divisive issue in some communities.

The NI Executive has set a target to achieve 40% of electricity generation from renewable sources by 2020.

At the heart of this vision is a continued commitment to early, inclusive and meaningful engagement. That is, engagement which is planned, purposeful, which reaches out to all our citizens and delivers real impacts that make a positive difference to people’s lives.