In Your Agency

Local agencies that take the time to assess their engagement strategies and activities are more likely to learn from their experiences and improve their future efforts. These resources and worksheets are designed to support local agencies as they explore how to measure success.

Measuring The Success of Local Public Engagement

You’ve devoted time, money and staff (and maybe consultant resources) to a public engagement effort about an important local plan, issue or policy…

Survey comparison table with public engagement ratings, showing scores for departments and local groups in various participation categories.

Assessing Public Engagement Effectiveness: Rapid Review Worksheets

Local officials are increasingly using a wide range of public engagement strategies to help them inform, consult with and deliberatively engage…

Measuring Community Engagement - International City/County Management Association (ICMA)

The International City/County Management Association’s (ICMA) capstone team was asked to evaluate the citizen engagement programs for the city of…

Deliberation by the Numbers – A Sampling of Statistics from Large-Scale Projects

Deliberative Democracy Consortium
Who says you can’t quantify public deliberation? It is true that quantitative measurement hasn’t been a strong suit…

A SeeClickFix for Public Participation? The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Tools like SeeClickFix tap into the capacity of citizens to be ‘intelligent sensors’ of their environment, allowing them to report problems like…