Involvement

Community involvement requires stakeholders to assume greater responsibility for assessing the needs and obtaining solutions for the protection and sustainable development and operation of their community.  Democracy calls for stakeholder participation and responsibility within our system of governance.

Stakeholder participation involves contributing ideas, making decisions, and taking responsibility.  In true participation, power and control are shared by the civic stakeholders – citizens, social partners, and civil society organizations, to influence the decisions of government authorities that affect their lives.  Civic participation must be enabled by the government authorities.

Civic participation is a basic human right and a fundamental principle of democracy.  A truly democratic society is built upon the active and responsible participation of its citizens and other civic stakeholders and their success depends on strong, effective, accountable local authorities and high-quality local governance.

The maintenance of democracy in our communities relies on the direct participation of its civic stakeholders in their further development and operation.  Where citizens are the source of all government power, we exercise this power and civic responsibility directly and through elected representatives.

Stakeholder civic participation influences community decisions and allows for the engagement of the community in decision-making and for stakeholders to exercise their civic responsibility to manage, control and govern the local built environment.  This includes the planning, monitoring and governance of programs, creating and maintaining organizations in support of these efforts, and evaluating the effects and adjusting goals and programs on an ongoing basis.

A community’s civic stakeholders must interact to advance the sustainable development and use of land, buildings and infrastructure.  BuildAction facilitates the required communication, collaboration, cooperation and coordination of collaborative action.

The sustainable development of communities calls for civic stakeholder collaboration and cooperation to realize shared goals.  Citizens must bear the responsibility for their society if they are to benefit from its development and operation and the protection of their rights.

Facilitation

The BuildAction platform enables communities to communicate, collaborate and cooperate in their sustainable development and protection and to coordinate collective action.  It helps community stakeholders meet their civic duty to actively participate in community development and other community affairs.

The BuildAction stakeholder participation toolkit is a secure, comprehensive, open platform that connects different resources and tools of participation.  It is an innovative system that facilitates the transparent inclusion and participation of all interested stakeholders in the sustainable development of communities that complements existing or planned citizen participation initiatives.

BuildAction allows for the sharing of concerns, alerts, polls, projects, resources, news, and events via email and social media platforms.  Projects, events and petitions provide stakeholders with an open, democratic, and transparent mechanism to engage with and address issues of concern to government policymakers and officials.  While improving the quality of public decision-making and policy, it also improves the assessability and accountability of the mechanisms of participatory democracy.

BuildAction facilitates cooperation and collaborative efforts between government, science, business, and individuals.  By sharing information and knowledge communities improve future practices and policies for their sustainable development and protection.

The BuildAction toolkit improves the effectiveness and efficiency of participatory democracy for communities.  The active participation of stakeholders at the local level, whether city, town, village or hamlet, is necessary for their sustainable development and protection.

The BuildAction platform was developed to comply with the “OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes”.  It is for the direct participation of civil-, private-, and public-sector stakeholders while enabling municipalities to fulfill their role and public duty to all stakeholders in the sustainable development and operation of the community, the use of resources, and the protection of the community now and for the future.

Enablement

BuildAction enables and facilitates stakeholder involvement and participation in the sustainable development and operation of communities by mobilizing interest, engagement, interaction and support for a particular development policy or action.  The platform provides the tools to communicate, collaborate, cooperate and coordinate the involvement of other interested stakeholders.

The mobilization of citizens and other stakeholders to take civic action at the community level is critical for the development and protection of the local built environment.  To participate in the process, public awareness must be raised and complementary action between diverse sectors and stakeholders must be coordinated.

A community’s stakeholders must interact to advance the sustainable development and use of land, buildings and infrastructure.  BuildAction enables the required communication, collaboration, cooperation and coordination of collaborative action by interested stakeholders.

Stakeholders must increase their involvement and sense of responsibility to gain broad political support for land-use intervention.  Stakeholder participation influences community decisions and allows for the engagement of the community in decision-making and for stakeholders to exercise their civic responsibility to manage, control and govern the local built environment.

Participation involves contributing ideas, making decisions, and taking responsibility.  This includes the planning, monitoring and governance of programs, creating and maintaining organizations in support of these efforts, and evaluating the effects and adjusting goals and programs on an ongoing basis.

Community participation requires stakeholders to assume greater responsibility for assessing the needs and obtaining solutions for the protection and sustainable development and operation of their community.  Democracy requires stakeholder participation and responsibility within our system of governance.

Stakeholders must bear the responsibility for their society if they are to benefit from its development and operation and the protection of their rights.  To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the development of communities calls for urgent and immediate stakeholder collaboration and cooperation to realize shared goals.