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Common Integrated Tools
• Comprehensive plans can be embodied within a single document or organized
by an umbrella document cross-referencing a more specific sub-plan. However,
there are several critical components that should be directly integrated into the
main document.
• These include in the community are:-
• Vision. The community vision needs to be derived from a robust public
engagement process. The results of this process are embodied in the vision
statement, guiding principles, goals, objectives, and in many cases, element-
based policy statements.
Source:- www.epa.gov/international-cooperation/public-participation-
guide-introduction-public-participation
Public Participation Guide: Tools
• There are a number of tools or techniques that you can use to implement your public
participation process. These include in-person tools (those that involve face-to-face
interaction – meetings or workshops, for example) and remote tools (those that do
not involve face-to-face interaction – written surveys or websites, for example).
This tools section is organized around the fundamental purpose of the tool:
• Tools to Inform the Public -- techniques that you can use to provide members of the
public with the information they need to understand the project and decision
process
• Tools to Generate and Obtain Input -- techniques that you can use to obtain public
input to the decision process
• Tools for Consensus Building and Agreement-Seeking – techniques that you can use
to bring diverse groups of stakeholders together to engage in shared learning and
decision making.
Source:- www.epa.gov/international-cooperation/public-participation-
guide-introduction-public-participation