• Leaders understanding and being committed to community empowerment, understanding the types of decisions at corporate and service level that need community empowerment at the heart of them.
• Promoting a culture across the whole organisation of trust, equality and collaborative relationships with local communities and partners.
• Clearly and consistently embedding community empowerment in organisational and partnership objectives and strategies.
• Linking related strategies on poverty and disadvantage, being clear about how community empowerment can help achieve wider objectives and support a preventative approach.
• Involving local communities, including seldom heard groups, in plans and decision making.
• Supporting appropriate capacity and resource at staff level to facilitate community empowerment processes. Encouraging new ideas and innovative approaches, valuing the benefits of new ways of working. Recognising there will be risks in implementing new approaches, but being measured and learning from unsuccessful approaches.
• Investing appropriate resources (financial and non-financial) to build community capacity and encourage community leadership, particularly among seldom heard groups, to empower communities in a sustainable way.
• Understanding where skilled individuals are in the organisation and deploying them effectively to help support and embed community empowerment across the organisation. Empowering all staff to carry out the expected roles and behaviours.
francis1897 answered the question on August 24, 2022 at 11:53