Spectrum of Community Voice Partner engagement

There’s lots of different ways Community Voice Partners can engage—from one-off engagements providing feedback to longer-term collaborations. The below Spectrum of Community Voice Partner Engagement helps you and the organisations you engage with to develop shared expectations.1

You can use this spectrum to discuss the engagement and your expectations with organisations—asking them about their hopes and expectations too. Developing shared expectations for engagement using the Spectrum will help find common ground and prevent misunderstandings—striving to make the most of the experience for everyone.

To help you think about the spectrum in practical ways, there’s some examples of engagement in the section at the end of this document—Examples of Community Voice Partner Engagement.

1 Adapted from the Public Participation Spectrum by the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2).