A number of community engagement projects have been named as finalists in the Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) Excellence Awards 2018, these include: Manurewa and Papakura Local Boards for engagement…
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One of the projects we have undertaken this year was surveying residents of Lower Hutt in regards to the Living Wage. Over the last couple of years, there had been…
Not all of our work is done in the office behind a keyboard. We have recently finished recruiting panel members for ‘Our Porirua City’, a Citizens’ Panel for the Porirua…
Citizens’ panels are an easy and cost-effective way for local government to consult with their community. A lot of thought and planning goes into a survey even before the first…
Citizens’ panels are an easy and cost-effective way for local government to consult with their community. A lot of thought and planning needs to go into a survey even before…
Finding it hard to keep track of all the online public engagement tools available now? So were we. While a few useful lists are floating around the web if you...
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The World Bank via Coursera have an online MOOC starting in February, 2016 which focuses on citizen engagement. The four week course starts on the 1st of February and is free to…
IAP2 launched their new ‘Quality Assurance Standards for Community and Stakeholder Engagement’ at the IAP2 conference in Perth last week. The overall objective of the standards is to provide a set of ‘standardised…
PublicVoice is a digital engagement company. We help government and the public sector consult and engage with the public. We believe in what we do, so we decided to write an…
Writing an effective questionnaire is quite the science, with lots of things to consider. Here are some of the tips we have picked up through preparing many questionnaires over the…