Key Points
- Good-quality services that have a positive impact in a community are ones which remain flexible enough to adapt to changes in need and context.
- Coordinating with community leadership provides communities with the opportunity to work together with its leadership and address issues with their support that they may not have discussed or been aware of previously (e.g. the need for sandbags along the beach line).
- Effective engagement with local government is built on supportive partnerships of coordinated actions.
- Duplication can be avoided by aligning plans and actions with existing local strategies for community engagement.