Ecorys has produced a good practise guide for involving beneficiaries in your project. The guide is designed for projects looking to work more closely with their beneficiaries and uses good practise from Reaching Communities programmes in England and Northern Ireland.

You can access the Putting Users at the Helm Guide here

‘Using Communication to empower project users,’ is a new guide produced by Ecorys to help projects that want to use communication and empowerment methods to engage their beneficiaries. The guide uses good practise examples from Reaching Communities programmes in England and Northern Ireland and includes case study example of how other projects have used communication and empowerment.

You can access the Electric Communication Guide here

Ecorys has produced a top tips guide bringing together learning from four Reaching Communities networking events that ran in summer and autumn 2010. The events focused on three key areas of:

• Identifying, defining and reaching those most in need;
• Effective evaluation strategies;
• Planning for sustainability.

The document is designed for anyone involved in a Reaching Communities project.

You can access the Top Tips Tool here