Jul 7, 2016 | Collaborating, Community Engagement, Stakeholder engagement, Water
Participation is a term that means a lot to me as a community engagement professional. Here’s a fresh way of looking at it. New ways, new people Today many water companies and local governments are grappling with sharing their business planning: • in new ways...
Apr 19, 2016 | Community Engagement, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Planning, Sustainability, Translating the scientific stuff, Walking, Water
Melbourne on the Front Foot! Want Melbourne to be green and healthy into the future? Interested in the built fabric of the city, the magic of planning? Looking for a fun, friendly Saturday afternoon walk? Annie Bolitho facilitates discussion about the ideas...
Dec 22, 2015 | Citizens' juries, Collaborating, Community Engagement, Local government, Participatory budgeting, People, place & governance, Planning, Rate capping
Christmas 2015. Presents piling up under people’s desks at work after lunch-time shopping. No doubt some won’t quite hit the mark. But it’s the thought that counts. When government spending doesn’t hit the mark it’s different. If I said...
Jul 22, 2015 | Citizens' juries, Community Engagement, Deliberative, Participatory budgeting
When it comes to familiarising with the nuts and bolts of participatory budgeting, you’ve got your work cut out. First step web search. Lots on the reasons why you’d do participatory budgeting. It’s a great way to ….. But where’s the practical info? Is...
Sep 17, 2014 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, Local government, Participatory budgeting, Sustainability, Terms of reference
This week the recommendations of the first Melbourne participatory budgeting jury were unanimously approved by Darebin City Council. The jury’s final meeting was in early August and council worked quickly to get the recommendations (Item 901 Appendix A 15...
Sep 17, 2014 | Advisory committee, Citizen committees, Community Engagement, Community Governance, Local government, People, place & governance, Terms of reference
In early September, I presented on improving the functioning of citizen committees’ at the SA Community Managers’ conference in Adelaide. The conference is for local government managers and the theme was ‘Active Citizenship’. I proposed three...
