benefits for participants and the benefits of the operational and strategic collaboration in local areas’. canada flag crocband clog Participants were ‘overwhelmingly positive’. Centrelink was established in 1997
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the adequacy of timeframes, and enabled critical reflection on the engagement process as a whole. In 2007, the NSW Education Department won a national award for ‘robust public participation process’ canada flag crocband clog in its strategic planning for education services in the Tamworth region. The planning exercise was prompted by demographic and regional economic shifts, local skills shortages and enrolment imbalances and resource inequities across educational facilities. The Victorian EPA also specified as its top strategic priority for senior staff that they ‘outline their own development plan to build their community engagement skills’. The articulation of these goals and aspirations suggests strongly that citizen engagement was identified as the key ingredient to the agency’s success in meeting its statutory and service obligations to the people and Government of Victoria.
mobilising resources and funding for implementing planned initiatives in a timely and efficient way was the ‘most problematic’ issue. According to the implementation report, the process was an ‘organic’ one which ‘evolved as the community increasingly engaged in conversations about the Local Implementation Plan’. Existing ideas, initial conversations and government priorities were captured in a document called ‘Community Talk’. There was an early focus on talking ‘to the right people in the right way’, and conversations were held over several months following accepted cultural practices, and all issues raised were duly documented. These formed the basis of further discussion in men’s and women’s ‘Yarning Circles’. The initiatives proved strikingly successful. The University of Western Sydney evaluation concluded that all the initiatives demonstrated ‘the effectiveness of holistic approaches and a more collaborative approach’ and ‘the value of engaging participants’. The investment was considered to be ‘well justified by the direct
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