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Over the coming months we will be showcasing some of the best projects from the Champions of Innovation award. Casey Next is a project that used innovative approaches to engage hard to reach groups.
Recently City of Casey supported by Capire undertook its most ambitious community engagement program to date – Casey Next.
Casey is one of the fastest growing municipalities in Victoria and their community is continuously evolving. Council needed to ensure that they continue to deliver services in line with the needs, aspirations and priorities of their community.
Casey has a very culturally diverse population and also a relatively young population with the largest age cohort being 0-18 years of age. The challenge was to engage these culturally diverse and younger groups, who traditionally are not as involved in engagement processes as much as the older, anglo-saxon community members.
The Casey Next program was designed to build a deeper understanding of the rapidly growing Casey community including their needs and expectations of council. Council needed this insight to refresh the existing City of Casey Vision, to better understand the value of council services to the community and to assist in identifying priorities for the next Council Plan.
To overcome challenges such as engaging hard to reach groups and ensuring that Casey Next was as inclusive as possible a range of tools and activities were developed, including:
More than 3600 people provided feedback to Casey Next through a variety of channels. It is estimated that promotional activities for Casey Next reached up to 480,000 people.
In addition to the large volume of contributions, Council heard from a diverse range of community voices. This included people from the Afghani, Kenyan, Maori, Aboriginal and Islander communities.
In total, Casey Next engaged 712 people under 18 years of age; 23 percent of the total respondents. The overall age breakdown of participants was also very close to the population break down.
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You’ve heard the adage – if you don’t measure it, you cannot manage it! The same applies to community and stakeholder engagement.
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Seqwater is South East Queensland’s bulk water authority, operating and maintaining an extensive network of dams, treatment plants, reservoirs and pipelines to provide a safe, secure and reliable bulk water supply to the region.
Seqwater also provides essential flood mitigation and irrigation services, and manages recreation facilities visited by almost 2.6 million people every year. Members of the community interact with Seqwater’s park rangers, communication and recreation teams, engineers, operators and contractors on a daily basis.
We ask Seqwater’s Corporate and Community Relations Manager Liz Kearins, to share some insights into why they engage:
At Seqwater, our vision is “Healthy communities, prosperous region”, and our purpose is partnering to deliver safe, secure and cost-effective water and catchment services to our customers and communities.
To make that vision a reality, we need to work collaboratively with our communities, customers, industry, stakeholders and government. We also need to be able to collect and curate data which provides insights into the communities we serve. In striving to work in partnership with others wherever we can, we need to be able to engage actively, achieve a high level of satisfaction with our stakeholders and customers, and identify opportunities to improve.
With many organisations putting in place dedicated resources and policies to manage stakeholder and community engagement, the importance of these activities is only going to rise. And although the days of sticky notes on the wall are not quite over yet, organisations are looking to innovation and technology to help engage with more people, more efficiently, and in a more meaningful way.
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