Free tool
Meaningful Engagement Diagnostic
Start with the one indicator that cannot be faked. Pull your engagement records from the last two years and find the decisions that changed because of community input. If you can list several, with the input traced to the outcome, your engagement is doing its job. If you cannot find one, you have your answer, and your starting point.
Where should I send it?
Give me an address and the pdf arrives as a link you can open on any device. I do not send anything else unless you ask for it on the second box.
PDF, about 26 KB.
The article it comes from
This tool was built alongside What Meaningful Community Engagement Looks Like , which explains the thinking behind each section. The tool is the part you take on site.
Everything else that is free
The three diagnostics score your grievance mechanism, your due diligence process or a community's readiness to negotiate, and the tension map tracks where friction is being reported.
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