Developing your strategy
Internal review: processes and responsibilities
Having looked at the scope of the current strategy, and identified the needs of the organisation, it may also be worth reviewing what currently happens. You will find that the following checklist covers some similar ground to the earlier checklists, but the focus in this case is on the practical details - who does what and where, what is not being done, and how the activity feeds back into the organisation. Those of you seeking a quick 'bird's eye view' of community engagement within your Force or Authority might find this a useful exercise.
Current processes and responsibilities checklist
- Who does community engagement activity in your organisation?
- In what form ? Communication, research, consultation, participation etc
- Using what mechanisms - stand alone/ad hoc about a specific issue, sustained processes
- What methods are used; qualitative, quantitative; information/research/consultation/participation.
- What skills exist in the organisation or elsewhere for community engagement activity that can be capitalised upon? This might include mapping/statistics work, community development, meeting chairing and facilitation, meeting organisation.
- How is the information used ? How effectively is information incorporated into organisational processes?
- What gaps exist in terms of the current organisational strategy , if there is one?
- What gaps do practitioners feel exist ?
- What are people's views on how these gaps should be filled?
- What feedback mechanisms are in place?
- What links are there between community engagement activity and the mainstream work of the organisation? Including core work of an authority, initiatives and projects
- Achieving corporate priorities
- Managing services (e.g. Best Value Reviews)
- Partnership work (CDRP, LSP work, local neighbourhood forums with local authorities)
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