Capacity Building: Linking Community Experience to Public Policy. 2000.

A resource designed to help people in both the public sector and the community understand how to include community experience in the policy-making process.
By Julie Devon Dodd and Michelle Hébert Boyd
22 pages
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Description

Capacity Building: Linking Community Experience to Public Policy is a resource designed to help people in both the public sector and the community understand how to include community experience in the policy-making process. It examines the current policy development process and looks at the opportunities and challenges facing both communities and systems as they attempt to create a more inclusive public policy process. This resource specifically considers three questions:

• How can public policy makers tap into community experience at all levels of the policy-making process?
• How can citizens and communities move beyond lobbying as special interest groups to become engaged as partners with government officials and policy makers in meaningful dialogue and problem solving?
• How can public policy processes help to build the capacities of all sectors to work together for more credible and inclusive policy making and governance?

The resource concludes by summarizing the challenges that will be encountered as communities, systems and policy makers work together to develop a more collaborative policy process.

Credits

Capacity Building: Linking Community Experience to Public Policy was produced by Julie Devon Dodd and Michelle Hébert Boyd for the Atlantic Regional Office of the Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada.

Availability

This publication is available for download in English (155 KB) and French (113 KB). You will require the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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