Abstract

Agencies, elected officials, advocacy organisations, researchers, and those with complementary objectives are valuable partners in built environment interventions, and yet co-ordination across sectors and disciplines is often missing. It’s critical that stakeholders feel heard and understand how their input integrates into the full process, maximising the value of their participation, and ensuring both shorter-term outcomes and longer-term impacts. This workshop presents tools for advancing strategic engagement plans, including an impact framework for modelling your project, and choosing key performance indicators to monitor and measure success. Public engagement and impact planning examples from the United States and Ireland, and which illustrate levels of engagement to involvement, will be presented, along with lessons learned and best practices.