A Guide for Inclusive Community Engagement in Local Planning and Decision Making
‘A Guide for Inclusive Community Engagement in Local Planning and Decision Making’ supports consultation and engagement at local level.
The handy ‘how-to’ reference guide is aimed at ensuring that the most marginalised and disadvantaged communities have opportunities to engage and participate in local planning and decision making. Such inclusive engagement will ensure that their perspectives are reflected in the decisions which affect them and will facilitate more inclusive measures to support sustainable development at a local level.
The guide was launched by Minister of State, with responsibility for Community Development, Charities and Integration, Joe O’Brien TD, in February 2023.
An updated, second edition was published in October 2023 using learnings from three pilot programmes and feedback gained from the process.
The resource guide was developed in conjunction with Pobal and the community and voluntary sector, as part of a wider Dormant Accounts Funded project on the engagement of marginalised communities at local level.
This initiative is just one of a wide variety of actions in train under Sustainable, Inclusive and Empowered Communities, the whole of Government Strategy to support the Community and Voluntary Sector in Ireland 2019-2024, and led by The Department of Rural and Community Development.
The second edition of ‘A Guide for Inclusive Community Engagement in Local Planning and Decision Making’, published in October 2023, can be found here:
