Involving residents

Engaging residents
Fostering resident participation

Description

Involving residents is the strategic process of actively engaging local community members in decision-making, planning, and implementation of initiatives that affect their lives. This approach ensures that solutions are tailored to actual needs, fosters a sense of ownership, and enhances the sustainability of outcomes. By leveraging local knowledge and building trust, involving residents remedies issues of exclusion, inefficiency, and resistance, leading to more effective and widely supported interventions.