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If you’re unsure about how to engage your community to reveal information that you can measure, here are a few ideas.
When in doubt, you can always go back to asking the different stakeholders these basic questions to understand what makes them tick.
Be sure to talk to relevant members of your community to get their ideas and feedback. This can be done through face-to-face interviews, polls, or focus group discussions. Key stakeholders to include in your research include:
This sample will ensure that you cover all your bases and acquire a healthy mix of perspectives on what success in the community should look like. At the same time, you must always remember that while inclusion is important, not everyone in your community sees goals and success in the same way and may not speak the same language when asked to describe the community’s programmes and initiatives. Your job, then, is to act as a translator between all parties.