Community Planning: Finding Innovative Ways Forward Lessons Learned? The Geddes Institute Deborah Peel

Objectives of the Research Exchange To foster mutual learning about processes of effective community engagement and planning To share hands-on community governance experience and to identify models of best practice To enhance understanding of community planning practice

Learning Across International Boundaries Increasingly outward-looking approach to policy making Seeking out new ideas from abroad Comparing/defending existing approaches Encouraging professional development

Learning in an International Context Learning about other countries Learning from other countries Scanning Selecting Understanding Assessing Recommending

A Shared Understanding of Community Planning? I have six honest serving men They taught me all I know Their names are What, and Why, and When And How and Where and Who?

Community Governance in Context Background: Why, When and How community planning came about in Scotland Key Actors: Who is shaping community planning? Three aspects of community planning – Product – What it is – Process – How it is put into effect – Outcome – What it is achieving

Assessing the Relevance of Community Planning Are the problems similar? How does the initiative relate to conditions at home? Are there any significant features that are different? What are the likely effects of the differences? What modifications might be required for it to work at home?

Moving to Recommendations Options from the Research Study Experience: Reject? Reasons Copy? Justify and Reasoning Be inspired? Why and how Learn Lessons……