Why Community Engagement is Important | Luis F. Aleman

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In today’s world, community engagement is becoming increasingly popular. Constructive relationships between the government and communities make community engagement a pivotal and desirable process for the wellfunctioning of today’s democracies.

Goods and Services One of the benefits of having a solid community engagement is that it leads to equitability and improvement of local communities’ effective delivery of services.

Social Capital Community engagement is crucial because it is majorly part of a conversation where communities make decisions to create social capital.

Shared Knowledge Community engagement can result in better outcomes when government entities and public decision-making bodies come together to seek the community’s aspirations and values.

Pride and Empowerment Building long term partnerships between the communities and the government also results in a greater sense of ownership and better uptake of tailor-made services for the community’s aspirations.

Trust Through community engagement, governments can improve on their legitimacy and efficiency..

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