Contribution analysis is a way to show the impact or progress of an activity or piece of work by focusing on how things that are more easy to measure ‘contribute’ to longer term, or higher-level outcomes.
Read MoreParticipation requests are a way for communities to work with public bodies to make services better. This resource pack contains a range of guides, tools and templates to help you understand the participation request process, the language and terms that are used, and the process involved.
Read MorePlanning Democracy is a community-led organisation campaigning to strengthen the voice and influence of the public in the planning and development of Scotland’s land. It provides peer support, training, networking, resources and advice.
Read MoreIf your group is working to improve public services, it may help to know about human learning systems, an alternative approach to public management which embraces the complexity of the real world, and enables us to work effectively in that complexity.
Read MoreCommunity mediation is a way of resolving disputes between those who live in the same area or neighbourhood, whether between neighbours, different groups of people or whole areas.
Read MoreMaking Rights Real is a grassroots human rights organisation that supports communities to name and claim their rights.
Read MoreDeveloped by the Innovation School at Glasgow School of Art, toolbox uses participatory design methods to help community groups think about and use participation requests to influence public services.
Read MoreLaunched by the Poverty Allliance in 2013, Challenge Poverty Week is an opportunity for us to raise our voices against poverty and unite with others in calling for a just and equal Scotland.
Read MoreThe Rural Exchange provides information for, and gathers the views of, people living and working across Scotland’s rural and island communities with the aim of increasing their voice in both research and policy-making.
Read MoreThese cards are a flexible and creative way to explore whole systems regeneration. They help to plan how to make communities more sustainable by seeing the interconnectedness between all areas of regeneration.
Read MoreThe Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) is the final stage for complaints about councils, the National Health Service, housing associations, colleges and universities, prisons, most water providers, the Scottish Government and its agencies and departments and most Scottish authorities.
Read MorePeople across Scotland can make use of The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act to have more say and control over what happens in their communities. This quick summary should help you to get started on finding out how your community group can use the Act.
Read MoreERCS aims to provide accessible public education and advice services in environmental and related planning law. It also advocates for policy and law reform and will pursue public interest litigation to ensure environmental rights are upheld.
Read MoreKnowledge is Power is a programme to support community-led action research. It provides a toolkit with guides, methods and ideas to support community groups to carry out and use their own research.
Read MoreCommunity capacity building means supporting communities to achieve the changes they want to see. This animated video from Scottish Community Development Centre explains how this is done and why it is needed.
Read MoreThis quick summary should help you to get started on finding out how your community group can use the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015, a piece of legislation which aims to make it easier for communities to have their voices heard in decisions, shape local services and increase their control of local land and buildings.
Read MoreScottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) has created a frequently asked questions document and webpage on participation requests, which enable community groups to have their voices heard in how services are planned and delivered.
Read MoreThe Scottish Government’s webpage on community empowerment. where you can find government guidance and other support for community asset transfer, participation requests, community councils, participatory budgeting and the Island’s (Scotland) Act 2018 as well as funding for activity in this area.
Read MoreBy making a participation request, a community body can start a formal discussion with public bodies about how to improve local outcomes. This 2-pager introduces participation requests in plain English.
Read MoreEvidence for Success is a series of guides which support you to engage with evidence in different ways to influence policy and practice and to improve your own work with your communities
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