Community participation
Alternative labels
Social participation
Participatory processes
Community involvement
Political participation
Policy
Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
This agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity and contains the Sustainable Development Goals. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. The UN recognises that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.
Report
Youth volunteering in Australia: An evidence review
Provides evidence and potential policy options to inform federal, state and territory government efforts to increase youth volunteering. Summary The National Youth Affairs Research Scheme commissioned the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) and researchers Associate Professor Lucas Walsh and Rosalyn Black to conduct research on youth volunteering in Australia. This report is...
Thesis
Improving the 'rules of engagement': understanding how participatory processes are defined, experienced and implemented in Australian natural resource governance
Community action in natural resource governance can provide a pathway for improved decision-making, increased on-ground activity and acceptance of government and industry legitimacy in managing natural resources.
Briefing paper
Are we really living safe together? Part 2
The Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (ECCV) is the peak advocacy organisation for ethnic and multicultural groups in Victoria. This social cohesion policy brief is the second of a two part discussion addressing community concern over future government ‘deradicalisation’ initiatives. After the implementation of the Federal Government’s Living Safe Together program, culturally diverse communities expressed...
Conference paper
Community renewable energy in Australia: exploring its character & emergence in the context of climate change action
Throughout the world, community involvement in renewable energy across many scales and varieties of activity is increasingly common, driven by broader processes of technical, social, political and environmental change. Social movements play a fundamental role in this process of change, acting as dynamic sites of action and innovation in thinking and practice. The past 10...