Engaging Citizens:A game changer for development

1. Digital Aircraft: Engaging Citizens
A Game Changer For Development

2. What is Citizen Engagement
 Citizen engagement refers to the ways in
which citizens participate in the life of a community in order
to improve conditions for others or to help shape the
community's future.

3. Benefits of Citizen’s
Engagement
 Better decision making
 Builds Community
 Compliance with legislation
 Enhances democratic credibility
 Responsive Environment
 Speedier Development
 Sustainability
 Satisfying public demands
 More appreciate results

4. Principles of Community
Engagement
 Involve all sections of community
 Accept different agendas
 Agree rules and boundaries
 Avoid Jargons
 Be transparent
 Communicate
 Local ownership
 Flexibility
 Visualize
 Quality not Quantity
 Use facilitators

5. Project Area
 Mughalpura is located along Shalimar link road, Lahore.
Shalimar Town is one of the oldest towns in Lahore;
Pakistan It is located on the Grand Trunk Road.
Shalimar town is a semi-commercial area with all major
banks located within the residential while vicinity. The
south west part of the town is the rest is commercial and
industrial

6. Major Problems
 Poor Street Condition
 Lack of Street Furniture
 Poor Waste Management
 Lack of Parks

7. Methods Involved For Project
 Community Profiling
 Art workshop
 Briefing workshop

8. Community Profiling
 Community profiling involves building up a picture
of the nature, needs and resources of a community,
with the active participation of that community.
 These are the facts that will be observed while
community profiling
 Household livelihood analysis
 Informal Walks
 Semi Structured Interviews of Households

9. Art Workshop
 Art workshops allow local people to help design and construct
artworks to improve their environment.
 Art workshop is held among young people of the society for
solutions of the problem.
Playground Design Cleanliness Tree Plantation

10. Briefing Workshop
 Briefing workshops are simple, easy-to-organize working
sessions held to establish a project agenda or brief.
 The main steps to be involved in the workshop:
 Individual brainstorm on Post-it notes or cards
 Categorizing in small groups sitting round a table or on the
floor
 Presenting the results
 Discussing implementation framework

11. Briefing Workshop

12. Project Proposals Implemented
 Street Plantation
Plants and small trees will be planted along the streets
and main roads to ensure and cleaner and greener
environment. One person one plant policy will be used
to encourage community for the better environment.

13. Project Proposals Implemented
 Street Furniture
Street Furniture including street lights, benches at
appropriate places, speed breakers, fences will be
introduced. Street benches will be ensured so that
elderly citizens could be able to sit in the evening and for
the travelers to take rest.

14. Project Proposals Implemented
 Introduction of Dustbins
Many people do not consider the consequences of their
actions, but when rubbish is thrown on the ground it can
harm animals in the area. Thus introducing dustbins will
ensure a neat and clean environment free from germs
and diseases.

15. Project Proposals Implemented
 Awareness Campaign
Different awareness campaigns will be run through
representatives, stake holders and students in order to
eradicate any hurdles in the path. Different methods
such as posters, brochures , newspaper supplement
and award scheme will be used for the purpose.