Empowering Communities to Monitor Major Projects in Impact Assessments
Community Engagement Indicators
March 24, 2022
Playbooks are useful interactive tools. They help in choosing and prioritizing impacts and engagement activities to monitor. Our research shows that using indicators is a
useful method for guiding engagement processes.
A step-by-step process helps proponents and communities develop effective relationships.
It helps proponents and communities measure their engagement success and work on sustaining it over time.
Assessing impacts helps link engagement to net zero ambitions.
Read the playbook: Strong Engagement, Strong Outcomes:
An Engagement Indicators Playbook
How Can This Playbook Help?
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Why a Playbook?
builds trust between proponents and communities
makes priorities and expectations clearer
aligns everyone’s roles with the community engagement process.
Applying a set of indicators to a community engagement plan:
Community Impacts
Create a focus on co-creation. Three sections of indicators help proponents and communities co-develop a plan that tracks and measures:
What Can This Playbook Do?
Community Engagement
Climate Action
Impacts and benefits important to the community
Activity progress and effectiveness
Contributions to local and national climate action plans
Engagement Indicator Wheel
Who Should Use This Playbook?
Indigenous communities, public stakeholders, and local communities potentially impacted by a major project development.
Project proponents undertaking engagement activities as part federal impact assessments.
Anyone developing a community engagement plan as part of federal impact assessment processes.
For more on why a playbook is needed, read the Issue Briefing:
An Engaging Solution: Bridging Communities and Major Projects in Impact Assessments.
