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Interactive Lab

Community Engagement Lab

A guided tool for participatory community assessment and action planning. Profile your community, map assets, assess needs, engage stakeholders, and build action plans.

Community Profile

Capture basic information about the community you are working with.

Major social groups, age distribution, gender ratio, literacy rates, etc.
Agriculture, livestock, wage labour, forest produce, migration, etc.
Schools, health centres, water supply, roads, electricity, government schemes, NGO programmes.

Community Asset Map

Identify strengths and resources already present in the community across five capital categories.

Needs Assessment

Identify community priorities and rank them by urgency and importance. Drag items to reorder.

No needs added yet. Add a community need below.

Add Community Need
What underlying factors contribute to this need?

Stakeholder Engagement

Map key stakeholders, their roles, and your engagement strategy.

No stakeholders added yet. Add a stakeholder below.

Add Stakeholder

Action Plan

For each priority need, define activities, responsibilities, resources, timeline, and success indicators.

No action items added yet. Add an action below.

Add Action Item

Participation Matrix

Define who participates in which decisions and at what level. Click cells to cycle through participation levels: Inform, Consult, Involve, Collaborate, Empower.

Add stakeholders and priority needs first (in earlier tabs) to build the participation matrix.

PARTICIPATION LEVELS
Inform Share information | Consult Gather feedback | Involve Work together | Collaborate Partner in decisions | Empower Community decides