Changes

echo update

echo, our framework to assess and develop public sector openness to influence, is now being tested in the West Midlands as part of the Improvement & Efficiency West Midlands ‘Learning to Deliver’ Programme.

It promises to have a relatively wide application and has already been used to:

• help a Partnership Board to consider how genuinely open they are to community influence
• help inform proposals for improving the quality of community engagement across a locality
• increase awareness and understanding amongst key decision makers and influencers of the need to be open to influence and of what being open to influence looks like
• prioritise actions to move community engagement forward across a Partnership
• as part of a broader action plan on delivering community engagement in a District over a three year period.
• enhance understanding of engagement & empowerment.
• contribute to an LAA NI4 Delivery Plan

If you have not yet come across echo, but this raises your interest, you can find out more in our resources section.