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Feeling you can influence decisions affecting your local area - what do the statistics tell us?

During 2009, the REP commissioned a two part research project on analysing National Indicator 4 (NI4 - the percentage of people who feel they can influence decisions affecting their local area).  The report has now been finished and is available to download through the link below.

The report looks at developing an analytical understanding of how NI4 behaves by reviewing key national material and analysing the 2008 Place Survey results so to identify key drivers and correlations in order to provide some recommended measures to improve performance of NI4.

The final report is now available and can be downloaded from the link below. 

Follow the link to download the final report: National Indicator 4 Behaviour

Some of the broader strategic recommendations coming out of the report include:
 
Building Trust:

  • Be clear about the limits of public influence on decision-making
  • Seek to improve all interactions and communications between services and the public
  • Provide realistic timescales in forward planning for involvement

Salience and issue based involvement:

  • Identify which groups are likely to want to influence on particular issues, knowing that differences exist more on an issue basis and less on a group basis
  • Know your communities in depth, quite likely through voluntary sector/community development workers
  • Inform those people about the decisions and how to get involved - reach out to engage them in decisions

Effective community engagement:

  • Promote community cohesion and develop community capacity as they are an important driver in the ability to have an influence.

In addition, a number of seminars have been held throughout 2009/10 to develop learning on National Indicator 4.  Presentations from the seminars can be downloaded below:

Please follow the link to view slides: Measuring NI4 - some issues

Please follow the link to view slides: NI4 Behaviour, trends, patterns, drivers and correlations 

Please follow the link to view slides: Thinking about Action Research in the East of England 

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