Foundations
Know the essentials.
Unlock key concepts, standards, and approaches to help you design inclusive, fair, and impactful participation. These resources guide you through essential terminology, participatory best practices, and strategies that go beyond quick fixes to foster genuine community involvement.
THE BASICS
Explore essential insights and standards for meaningful public engagement with these foundational resources.
Dive into key terms and concepts, discover best practices for participatory and deliberative processes, learn how to foster equitable engagement, and move beyond quick fixes to create lasting impact.
Whether you’re new to community involvement or seeking to deepen your approach, these guides offer valuable knowledge to support inclusive and effective participation.
Key terms
A glossary to clarify common language around climate, engagement, and equity.
Standards
Participatory processes enable people to play an active role in decisions that affect their lives. Deliberative processes are a type of participatory process that allow participants to consider and discuss relevant information from multiple perspectives before coming to a common conclusion.
Read through standards for designing and delivering high quality processes.
Equitable engagement
Power is all around us – embedded in institutions, relationships and social norms. It is rarely neutral and often invisible. When we ignore power in public participation, we risk reinforcing inequality and maintaining the status quo.
Beyond quick fixes
To meaningfully engage the public in climate action, we must be willing to face this complexity head-on.
This guide introduces two powerful ideas to support deeper, more inclusive engagement.