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This toolkit offers an extensive but not exhaustive list of engagement methods that can be applied throughout different stages of the evaluation process.
This could be involving stakeholders to help define the evaluation program to engaging relevant stakeholders to disseminate evaluation results.
There is advice on choosing the right tool and options are listed in alphabetical order for easy use. Each individual option page gives the description, objectives, outcomes, uses/strengths and special considerations/ weaknesses. It give indications of the resources, time and number of people needed, outlines the options and provides some extra references for those interested in knowing more.
Contents
- Introduction p5
- Choosing the Right Tool p7
- The Toolkit p11
- Backcasting p12
- Brainstorming p13
- Briefings p14
- Citizen Committees p15
- Citizen Juries p17
- Civic Journalism p19
- Community Fairs p20
- Community Indicator p21
- Community Profiling p22
- Conference p24
- Consensus Conference p26
- Deliberative Opinion Polls p28
- Delphi Study p29
- Design Charrettes p31
- Displays and Exhibits p33
- Electronic Democracy p34
- Expert Panel p36
- Field Trips p37
- Fishbowl p38
- Focus Groups p39
- Future Search Conference p40
- Information Contacts p42
- Information Hotline p43
- Information Repository p44
- Interactive TV p45
- Interactive Video Display Kiosks p46
- Key Stakeholder Interviews p47
- Kitchen Table Discussion p48
- Media Releases p49
- Mediation and Negotiation 51
- Mind Mapping p53
- MODSS (Multi-Objective Decision Support Systems) p54
- Newspaper Inserts p55
- Nominal Groups p56
- Open House (or Open Days, Drop-In Centres) p58
- Open Space Technology p60
- Participant Observation p62
- Photovoice p63
- Planning4real p64
- Poster Competitions p66
- Printed Information p67
- Prioritisation Matrix p68
- Public Conversation p69
- Public Involvement Volunteers p70
- Public Meeting p72
- Questionnaires and Responses 74
- Role Plays p75
- Samoan Circles p76
- Scenario Testing p77
- Search Conference p78
- Shopfront p80
- Simulation (Electronically Generated) p81
- Sketch Interviews p82
- Snowball Sampling p83
- Speakout (Version 1) p84
- Speakout (Version 2) p85
- Stakeholder Analysis (CLIP) p86
- Stakeholder Analysis (Stakeholder Matrix) p87
- Stakeholder Analysis (Venn Diagrams) p89
- Study Circles p90
- Submissions p91
- Surveys p92
- Technical Assistance p94
- Technical Reports and Discussion Papers p95
- Telephone Trees p96
- Visioning p97
- Websites p99
- Workshops p100
- Appendix A: Bibliography p102
- A.1 Publications p102
- A.2 Websites p104
Sources
Department of Sustainability and Environment (2005), Book 3: The Engagement Toolkit.Effective Engagement: building relationships with community and other stakeholders, The Community Engagement Network Resource and Regional Services Division Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment. Retrieved from http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/105825/Book_3_-_The_Engagement_Toolkit.pdf
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