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Engaging the Public for River Sustainability
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Civic Engagement – A Definition
Civic engagement engenders collective action to identify and address issues of public concern, instilling a sense of personal responsibility to uphold obligations as part of a community.
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Civic Engagement is not…
• Consensus-building
• Collaboration
• Communication or
• Public advocacy
Rather it collects from and uses all these forms of engagement.
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The Need For A Constituency
Overarching Question –
Who do you represent?
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Seven Principles of Civic Engagement
• Careful planning & preparation
• Inclusion & demographic diversity
• Collaboration & shared purpose
• Openness & learning
• Transparency & trust
• Impact & action
• Sustained engagement & participatory culture
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Careful Planning and Preparation
• Inclusive oversight
• Data and science
• Factual and values framework
• Common lexicon
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Role of Careful Planning and Preparation
• Information authentication
• Trust
• Informed discussion
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Inclusion & Demographic Diversity
Representation of diverse opinion as much as ethnic or geographic
• Important for voices in the room
• Varying perspectives make new ideas
• Legitimizes outcomes
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Inclusion & Demographic Diversity
How does this apply to public policy for rivers and their communities?
Discussion
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Collaboration & Shared Purpose
• Useful in complex, multi-party issues• Process to obtain goals that cannot be
reached by one single agent• Based on principles of local
participation and ownership• Goal – jointly develop and agree on
common objectives and directions• Share responsibility• Work for the achievement of the
agreed-upon items
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Collaboration & Shared Purpose
• How does this apply to public
policy for rivers and their communities?
• Discussion
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Shared Purpose – Attitude to Action Continuum
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Collaboration & Shared Purpose
• Important in today’s interconnected
society where issues affect diverse groups with different interests and perspectives
• Allows future orientation• Leverages resources• Fosters exploration of joint gains and
integrative solutions• Permits stakeholders to deal with
interrelated issues in a single forum• Shared risk builds trust and minimizes
turf issues• Avoids duplication
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Collaboration & Shared Purpose
• How does this apply to public policy for rivers and their communities?
• Discussion
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Openness & Learning
• Mindset allows purposeful
collaboration• Fosters new ideas• Fosters trust by allowing
questioning• Allows individual and group
evaluation for on-the-ground solution/evaluation
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Openness & Learning
How does this apply to public policy for rivers and their communities?
Discussion
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Transparency & Trust
• Role of neutral convener/process
in building trust• Fairly refereed game vs. unfairly
refereed game• Openness and its relationship to a
participant’s willingness to contribute
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Transparency & Trust
• How does this apply to public
policy for rivers and their communities?
• Discussion
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Impact & Action
• Concrete goal setting• Agreed-upon measurement• Public policy – agenda,
constituency, strategy• Who do you represent?
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Sustained Engagement & Participatory Culture
Theo Brown
AmericaSpeaks