Community engagement taps the resources in your community by developing projects that address the biggest issues your community faces. The best way to ensure an eco-friendly and well-maintained project is by building capacity within your community—involving members of your community to identify their own needs and strengths, plan the project, and maintain the project themselves.
Some ways you can engage the community to plan an eco-friendly project:
- Design a program and project that fits the community’s needs.
- Ensure the project and actions are maintained for the intended project life span.
- Inspire others to act and think in ways that reduce environmental impact.
- Make plans for continued maintenance of the project during changing of seasons or after community events.
Working with project proponents, partners, and the community early on in the project planning process will lay the foundation for establishing goals and plans for the effort. With the right mix of community engagement tactics you can help resolve some of your community’s most pressing social problems and mobilize others to action.
