It is important to make your consultation known to your community and give them good reasons to take their valuable time to share their opinions.
Municipal sector
HOW DO YOU SEEYOUR PARK?
The City needed to review the development of five parks and they collected the opinion of the community with a mix of questions and proposals online.
GREEN SPACE MASTER PLAN
Through its consultation process, the City was able to propose initiatives and concepts to make the Master Plan more accessible to the community.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
The regional plan for natural environments is an obligation of the MRCs and the online platform has made it possible to prioritize the actions to be implemented on the territory for the conservation of environments.
Choose the right tool
An online participation platform is a specific tool that you need to understand well. It is certainly not an enhanced survey! With a platform, you are seeking more dialogue and transparency.
Communicate frequently
Adopt an integrated approach
If you are organizing other participation activities, such as an in-person consultation session, make sure to effectively combine your different activities so they strengthen and complement each other.
Trust the community
Write proposals on which participants can express their level of agreement, enthusiasm, and trust. Allow your community to write their own as well. And the priorities will emerge.
Define success
Identify a realistic number of participants: consider doubling or even quintupling the number you would aim to reach in person. You'll find that it's quite easy to achieve! Your success should also include: the number of opinions, the quality of the comments, the identification of priorities...