Mind the Gap has years of international and UK experience supporting clients in developing and maintaining effective partnerships across a wide range of settings.
Some partnership work and participation is mandatory. Examples of our work here include:
- Parks and protected areas consultations
- Community engagement and planning consultations
- Police or health services seeking local input for service delivery
In urban planning we have worked with parishes and neighbourhoods on community and development plans, enhancing gateway routes into towns, and a broad array of community/planning authority consultations. In Africa we have worked with transport planning authorities and community engagement for urban and rural developments. All of these projects relied on effective community consultation coupled to robust planning applications, action planning and follow-up.
In our experience, loose links and flexible networks can sometimes be more useful than a resource-intensive, formal partnership. Where a permanent ‘partnership’ is actually overkill, a ‘network’ can provide a space for stakeholders to come together for particular goals, partnering where needed and working individually at other times.
Either way, we have the experience to help you manage your resources so that energy is used wisely and ‘complete participation’ does not result in ‘complete inertia.’
If you would like to read a recent published example of our work please click here.
