Making community participation meaningful: A handbook for development and assessment

Community participation is now demanded of virtually all public sector services and programs. This handbook provides practitioners, community activists, regeneration managers, teachers and academics with the tools needed to ensure that community participation is effective. The 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: Active Partners: Benchmarking Community Participation in Regeneration (Yorkshire Forward, 2000) and Auditing Community Participation: An Assessment Handbook (The Policy Press, 2000). This book: outlines the key considerations 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 that can be used by community groups to generatMarilyn Taylor is the author of 'Making community participation meaningful: A handbook for development and assessment', published 2004 under ISBN 9781861346148 and ISBN 186134614X.