1. Start where people are, not where you want them to be.
Advice from:
Organizational Resources
References
1. "Informed Consent: Advice for State and Local Leaders
on Implementing Results-Based Decisionmaking," Sara Watson, Finance
Project, 2000
The Short Answer
1. For a community that wants to do this, use the mainstream
political structures in a broad based partnership.
2. For a community that doesn't want to do this, use existing,
or if necessary, new advocacy organizations or coalitions to get started, and
seek mainstream political support.
Full Answer
Much of the long answer can be found in the answer to question 1.4
"Where do I start?" - which offers choices about starting points and tracks of
work, and boils down to "start where you are."
Given the answer to this
question, a community that “wants” to do this is more likely to have
the mainstream support of government, and it will be possible to craft broadly
based sponsorship that includes the executive and/or legislative branches of
government.
It will be possible to proceed simultaneously on all or most of the parallel
tracks discussed above.
Where states, counties, cities or communities “don’t want” to do this,
it is probably necessary for advocacy organizations, alone or in combination,
to start the work and later bring in governmental partners.
