Making community participation meaningful: A handbook for development and assessment - Softcover

Burns, Danny; Heywood, Frances; Taylor, Marilyn; Wilde, Pete; Wilson, Mandy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 186134614X ISBN 13: 9781861346148

Publisher: Policy Press, 2004

Synopsis

This handbook is a companion volume to What works in assessing community participation? (The Policy Press, 2004) which documents the results of the road testing of two earlier frameworks for assessing community participation - Benchmarking community involvement in regeneration (Yorkshire Forward, 2000) and Auditing community participation: An assessment handbook (The Policy Press, 2000).

Making community participation meaningful outlines key considerations that are necessary to ensure that community participation is effective; provides detailed sets of questions to enable stakeholders to assess the extent to which the indicators of success are being met; highlights a variety of resources which can be used by community groups to generate information and insight into the key issues and offers the real prospect of a commonly accepted assessment framework which has the authority to be adopted across sectors.

About this title

About the Authors

Danny Burns is Professor of Social and Organisational Learning at the University of the West of England.

Marilyn Taylor, Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London Marilyn Taylor teaches in the areas of community involvement in neighbourhood renewal, partnerships, community participation. Her research interests include neighbourhood renewal, civil renewal, accountability, community participation and empowerment, voluntary and community sector role and development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 186134614X
• ISBN 13: 9781861346148
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76