PROVIDER AND CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!

PROVIDER AND CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT:BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!Annie Gunner Logan, CCPS, and Liz McEntee, GCVS

DFI National Conference 2014: Citizen Engagement - Local Government for Local People

ABOUT OUR ORGANISATIONSNational representative association for major disability service providers in the voluntary sector

Local development agency and advocate for voluntary and community organisations in Glasgow and “Third Sector Interface” for Glasgow



Scotland and Ireland: some similarities

Importance of participatory as well as representative democracy

Importance of wellbeing as a driver for better decision-making Increasing momentum behind citizen and community

engagement Recognition that voluntary bodies are pivotal in facilitating

community engagement


Scotland and Ireland: some differences

Scope and remit of local government

Degree of formality around participatory mechanisms


Proposed Community Empowerment legislation

Community Planning Partnerships will have “a duty to consult and engage … on the outcomes to be achieved and how they can best be delivered, and consult and engage with communities in identifying and prioritising the outcomes that are to be delivered and ensure that community engagement is properly planned, resourced and integrated across partners.”

There’s more than one type of ‘engagement’…



Challenge #1: Specialist or generalist?

Challenge #2: Size and scope


Challenge #3: Representational credentials



Challenge #4: Capacity to engage

“The trouble with democracy is that it takes up too many of one’s evenings.”

Challenge #5: Managing diversity


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Challenge #6:



Challenge #7: Beyond ‘representation’



PROVIDER AND CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT: BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!

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