As I mentioned last week, our team has been researching extensively on the current state of food insecurity in Toronto. Our team (huge shoutout to Sasha & Alex) decided to focus on how we could reduce barriers for people who are not accessing food banks. We learned that the stigma…
“How do you make sure people really participate?”
That’s a key question in designing engaging, meaningful public consultations, and I think the concept of space has a lot to say.
By Gabriel Eidelman and Jo Flatt
The term “community-based policy-making” was new to me. It had seemed intuitive what it may entail — engagement with a community — but our dissection of this term in class showed otherwise.
One of the highlights from the introductory class on community-based policy-making was defining what a community is (or at least trying to). I understand and would define a community as a social network of people sharing similar values and/or interests in a…
After our first class, I am left with more questions than answers as to what “community-based policy” really is. I hoped that I would gain some clarity after diving into the readings for our second week of class. Although I’m still unable to define the term, I am more aware of some…
What does “community” mean? This is the question our first Evergreen intensive class grappled with. What constitutes a community? Do you have to identify yourself as part of the community? Do you have a choice if you’re a dissenter of a particular community?
In the first class of our course on community-based policy-making, we spent a little time discussing definitions. What do we actually mean when we talk about “community,” “impact,” and “community-based policy-making”?