Personal identities include many aspects. An intersectional approach is important because inequalities are a result of the intersections of different social locations and power relations. We often assume that our work or our policies apply to everyone equally and there are no gender or diversity issues to consider. Incorrect assumptions can lead Read more…
Results-based management (RBM) is a program/project life cycle approach to management. It integrates: The approach focuses on: (Global Affairs Canada) Results-Based Management for International Assistance Programming at Global Affairs Canada: A How-to Guide (2016) Related sites, tools, and templates Webinar: What’s new in Results-Based Management: An Insider’s Perspective from Global Affairs Canada Read more…
There is, more often than not, a connection between arts-based approaches and social media for public engagement. Often campaigns will have produced some kind of logo, symbol, or tool that acts as a quick visual reminder of messaging or cause/purpose. For example, the white wristband was internationally known as the Read more…
Educators, policymakers, community leaders, and service providers have the opportunity to impart youth with the skills, knowledge, abilities, and opportunities to become active participants in influential decision-making settings. The main approach to sustain youth engagement is by placing youth in the centre of those initiatives (Institute for Community Research, ICR). Read more…
Taking care of ourselves and each other was a topic that we felt was essential to cover in our discussion of youth-based public engagement because, as author Michael Albert says, “if social change isn’t fun, the probability that people will keep trying to do it through hard times and over Read more…
In general, ensuring a good spectrum of gender, race, and class representation in organizing is more effective because groups make better decisions and are better able to reach out to diverse audiences when the group itself is diverse. When there is diversity and buy-in from these groups at the highest Read more…
Engaging youth that do not have easy access to programming, live in rural areas, on-reserve, or that are typically thought of as being ‘at-risk’ (or ‘at-promise’, as we like to say) takes a different approach than doing programming geared towards youth who are easily engaged. Making programs and projects accessible Read more…
University may be the first time people are engaged in social change, and so participants need to be reminded how much space they are taking up in the group. Men need to make sure they are not speaking much more than women and that ideas are being contributed from everyone. Read more…
While social media tools have the potential to create open and inclusive environments, it is important to note that they can also reinforce and lead to unhealthy behaviours such as cyberbullying, isolation, and reinforcing stereotypes. It’s important to realize that one’s experiences are impacted by one’s gender, and this can Read more…
A theory of change maps out a pathway of change or a change framework towards a long-term goal. The process of developing a theory of change for an organization can help practitioners identify gaps in the interventions they have planned, and identify when an intervention is unlikely to lead to Read more…