Towards Whole of Community Engagement: A Practical Toolkit

Abstract

This toolkit is designed to help anyone who wants to develop, design or conduct community engagement processes, or to be part of them. It has a particular focus on engaging communities in natural resource management issues in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, but much of the material is applicable to almost any kind of community engagement, anywhere.The toolkit has been written for the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, but we hope it will help a range of stakeholders – in fact all those people who have an interest in a more sustainable future. It is particularly relevant to you if you are responsible for making decisions about community engagement processes.You could be a staff member or volunteer from a government, nongovernment, industry or private sector organisation.You could be a member of a catchment management organisation or other regional group involved in natural resource management.