Community engagement
Case Study: Review of a Communications Plan
AI tools, Community engagement Pauline Webby is a Senior Water & Wastewater Planning Advisor who used the Community Engagement Planning tools to review her...
debraNovember 4, 2025
Create Better Consultation Documents by Starting with the Options
One way to build a consultation document is from the ground up – reviewing the source documents, thinking about the topic and drafting the...
debraNovember 4, 2025
Create Community Engagement Plans That Work With Your Natural Strengths
Community engagement Does the term ‘community engagement’ make you want to run for the hills or dive right in? Your reaction is likely...
debraOctober 7, 2025
Ideas for your next consultation document
Here are some ideas for you to consider when developing your next consultation document.They are sourced from nine of the best LTP consultation documents...
debraJuly 31, 2023
How to use Whole Brain Thinking to be successful at work
Whole Brain Thinking is a great tool which you can use when: preparing a community engagement plan writing a strategy, plan or report...
debraMarch 26, 2023
Community engagement on climate change
Here are some inspiring examples of councils engaging with their communities about climate change, from the New Zealand Coastal Society’s Special Publication 5....
debraJanuary 13, 2023
How to write a community engagement plan
Are community engagement plans magically whipped up by the communications advisers at your council, or do you have to come up with them...
debraDecember 24, 2022
Consultation ideas from the draft National Adaptation Plan
The arrival of the draft National Adaptation Plan is exciting news for everyone in New Zealand who cares about this topic. However, it...
debraJune 10, 2022
Need to keep in touch with stakeholders? Try a newsletter.
A newsletter can be an effective, low-cost way for a council to keep in touch with a specific group of people. This could...
debraFebruary 28, 2022
Audit New Zealand advice on LTP consultation documents and community engagement
Over the next couple of months New Zealand councils will be releasing their Long Term Plan (LTP) consultation documents, so it’s timely to...
debraJanuary 31, 2021
