City of Stirling Community and Stakeholder Engagement Procedures

Engagement risks Consider any possible risks associated with the project or engagement process and assess the potential impact and likely severity. Identify what you could do to prevent these issues or risks from occurring, or to minimise their impact. Risks could be: • Financial • Reputational • Related to the health and safety of staff or stakeholders • Related to the success of the project or the engagement process. Determining an approvals protocol with your manager or director is an important consideration, which may help minimise the engagement risks identified. Contact the Senior Coordinator Communications if you identify media interest as a risk. Please refer to the Corporate Risk Management page for more information about the City’s commitment to risk management.

c) Level of engagement The level of engagement can be determined by considering the context, purpose and parameters identified earlier in this step. The IAP2 Spectrum, on page 12, can be used as a tool to help identify the levels you might engage with stakeholders and the community. This will help articulate the objectives of engagement and identify appropriate methods that will best achieve them.

The level of engagement can be different for each stakeholder group or project stage.

It is important to reiterate that the ‘Inform’ stage is not a level of engagement in isolation, but should be an integral component of all engagement activities and used throughout the project.

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