There are 718 occurrences of community engagement in the HE Corpus. This figure increases to 890 occurrences if expressions formed by the verb to engage in the active voice and community are added to the count.
Community engagement occurs mostly in documents published in Europe, closely followed by Oceania and North America. Overall, the top five contributors in terms of occurrences are NGO, NGO_Fed, C/B, Net and RC organisations.
NGO documents provide most occurrences, primarily from activity reports published in Oceania and North America. In second place, occurrences from NGO_Fed were mostly obtained from activity reports published in Oceania and Africa to a lesser extent. Nearly every occurrence from C/B was found in European general documents published in 2019.
Documents from Net are mostly activity reports and general documents, both kinds published also in Europe for the most part. Finally, C/B generates a considerable number of occurrences from African activity reports as well as Asian strategy documents, albeit rather minor compared to other top contributors.
Community engagement: gaining acceptance (or at least tolerance) for NGO programming within a community, and therefore indirectly with local opposition commanders. 2.
Community engagement is about 'using the most appropriate communication approaches to listen to communities' needs, feedback and complaints, ensuring they can actively participate and guide [humanitarian] action'.
Contextual analysis identified 8 parent concepts of community engagement, namely activity, approach, initiative, strategy, service, process, programme and component.
While the targets for the indicator were met in the majority of reporting countries, the targets four out-years are declining due to refocused activities in Kenya from advocacy to community engagement after the 2013 election period and the closure of a program in Tunisia in FY 2014.
It develops compassionate activists, ardent ambassadors and leaders of tomorrow through the various community engagement activities planned, organised and implemented by its own members.
To help stop the epidemic, the Ebola operation employed a five-pillar approach: community engagement and social mobilization; contact tracing and surveillance; psychosocial support; case management; and safe and dignified burials and disinfection.
Through our community engagement approach, Global Communities expanded upon our existing USAID water, sanitation and hygiene program to include Ebola awareness and prevention.
With more than $35 million worth of ongoing development projects, emergency assistance and community engagement initiatives to support, Caritas Australia's success depends upon effective financial management and support services for our activities across the agency.
Regular collection of community feedback through listening and monitoring of community perceptions and concerns is essential to adapting the community engagement strategy, informing response actions and presenting clear information that addresses anxieties, fears and unhealthy beliefs, and ultimately contributes to building trust.
An investment in empowering local communities using evidence-based community engagement strategies (such as participation by women's groups) with special attention paid to the most vulnerable.
Inspire. is more than our tagline, it reflects the continuum of change achieved by our beneficiaries through interaction with our innovative media and community engagement services.
HAT staff were also able to offer practical community engagement services, facilitating assessments, refining beneficiary lists, managing community complaints and dealing with government liaison and coordination issues, and as such were seen as a useful component of the team rather than an external threat.
Through a community engagement process, communities will identify, target, and adopt specified MNCH health seeking behaviours and in return they will receive a community-level, non-financial benefit that they will identify collectively.
LAMIKA, which stands for "a better life in my neighborhood" in Haitian Creole, is funded by the American Red Cross and relies on an inclusive approach with an intensive community engagement process to prioritize and reconstruct spaces in the dense, urban neighborhood of Carrefour-Feuilles, Haiti.
Developing community engagement programs in Australia, including campaigning, communications and fundraising tools that shine a light on violence against women during conflict and disasters.
In the Emergency RediPlan which is a national community engagement programme, the focus is on the resilience of households and neighbourhoods towards managing health, financial and material impacts of disasters.
All programs include a community engagement component based on a set of minimum standards for accountability. 2.5.3.
The MSI ERC has incorporated components on community engagement in the training it has delivered, has amended its reviewer forms and will develop internal guidance on community engagement in 2013 in cooperation with MSI staff so as to deepen its understanding of programmatic specificities.
based on adequacy/effectiveness
great community engagement
inadequate community engagement
good community engagement
effective community engagement
based on continuance
sustained community engagement
continuous community engagement
lasting community engagement
based on extension
broad community engagement
widespread community engagement
wide community engagement
system-wide community engagement
response-wide community engagement
extensive community engagement
based on resource-intensity/effectiveness
strong community engagement
weak community engagement
intensive community engagement
based on genuineness
genuine community management
true community engagement
meaningful community engagement
based on community type
host community engagement
volunteer community engagement
refugee community engagement
international community engagement
Frequent words that accompany a term are known as collocates. A given term and its collocates form collocations. These can be extracted automatically based on statistics and curated manually to explore interactions with concepts.
Comparisons over time between organisation types with the greatest contribution (NGO, NGO_Fed, C/B, Net and RC organisations) proves to be meaningful. Below is an histogram for the top yearly collocation for each of the five organisations with the greatest contribution as well as across all organisation types.
Overall, accountability is the top collocate with community engagement in 2015 and 2016. Interestingly, the acronym for the Marie Stopes International (MSI) organisation is the top collocation for 2012 with the highest score. In second place is genuine for 2018. Other top collocates include collective, communication, sustainability, participation, planning and improve.
NGO documents contain MSI as top collocate with the highest score for 2012, followed by accountability and participation for 2015 and 2007, respectively.
Collocation data from NGO_Fed is only available for 2018 with advocacy as top collocate.
In C/B documents, the most relevant collocation is collective for 2019, closely followed by communication in 2018 and sustainability in 2010. There is no collocational data available for other years.
C/B documents generated only 2 top collocations for 2017 and 2018, with communication recording the highest score.
Similarly, RC documents only generated 3 top collocations for 2016, 2017 and 2018, with accountability recording the highest score.
Organisation subcorpora present unique and shared collocations with other organisation types. Unique collocations allow to discover what a particular organisation type says about community engagement that others do not.
Top unique collocates for NGO include ARDD (Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development), adherence, tutor, integrating, counsel, psychosocial, providing, survivor, provided and vocational.
NGO_Fed documents feature fundraising, model, advocacy, initiative, Australia, campaign, strategy, share, result and use.
C/B unique collocates with the highest scores are collective, platform, lesson, sustainability, coordinate, inform, preparedness, coordination, mechanism, identify and effort.
Documents from RC generated the following top unique collocates: sustained, volunteer, movement and resource.
The only unique collocates for Net are network and ensure.
Shared collocations allow to discover matching elements with organisations talk about affected populations. These constitutes intersections between subcorpora.
Top collocates shared by 2 organisation types are accountability (RC+C/B), intervention (NGO+C/B), participation (RC+Net) approach (Net+C/B), education (NGO_Fed+NGO) and program (NGO_Fed+NGO)
Top collocates shared by 3 organisation types include communication (Net+C/B+RC), strengthen (NGO_Fed+NGO+RC), improve (NGO+C/B+RC) and response (NGO+Net+C/B).
Only one collocate shared by 4 organisations was found: activity (NGO+RC+NGO_Fed+Net)
No collocates shared by all organisations analysed were found.
Verb collocates are useful in determining key relations between concepts. On the left is a diagram that represents verbs of which community engagement is the subject (in green) and the object (in pink).
At first sight, community engagement collocates with verbs more frequently as an object than as a subject. This indicates what humanitarians organisations do about it:
actions related to service provision (coordinate, embed, coordinate, support, ensure);
actions related to advocacy (foster, encourage, promote); and
actions related to improvement: (strengthen, enhance, improve, increase).
As a subject, community engagement only appears with the verbs to remain and to be, which are mostly used to describe the concept, as well as claiming that it constitutes a challenge, an objective or a value for humanitarian actors.
The chart below represents the distribution of community engagement between 2005 and 2019 in terms of the number of occurrences and relative frequency of occurrences It also allows you to view the distribution across Regions, Organisations and Document types.
The relative frequency of a concept compares its occurrences in a specific subcorpora (i.e. Year, Region, Organisation Type, Document Type) to its total number of occurrences in the entire HE corpus. This indicates how typical a word is to a specific subcorpus and allows to draw tentative comparisons between subcorpora, e.g. Europe vs Asia or NGO vs IGO. You can read these relative frequencies as follows:
Relative frequency is expressed as a percentage, above or below the total number of occurrences, which are set at 100%. This measure is obtained by dividing the number of occurrences by the relative size of a particular subcorpus.
Under 100%: a word is less frequent in a subcorpus than in the entire corpus. This is means that the word is not typical or specific to a given subcorpus.
100%: a word is as frequent in a subcorpus as it is in the entire corpus.
Over 100%: a word is more frequent in a subcorpus than in the entire corpus. This means that the word in question is typical or specific to a given subcorpus.
As an author, you may be interested to explore why a concept appears more or less frequently in a given corpus. This may be related to the concept's nature, the way humanitarians in a given year, region, organisation type or document type use the concept, or the specific documents in the corpus and subcorpora itself. To manually explore the original corpus data, you can consult "contexts", or the search the corpus itself.
Occurrences of community engagement were highest in 2018. However, 2019 saw the highest relative frequency with 1,643 %.
Europe generated the greatest number of occurrences but ranks forth in terms of relative frequency with 75%. Oceania recorded the highest relative frequency with 265%.
The top 5 organisation types with the highest relative frequency of community engagement are WHS, C/B, Project, Net and RC.
Activity reports provide the greatest number of occurrences. However, community engagement obtains the highest relative frequency in Strategy documents with 175%.
This shows trends for community engagement and its plural form in the vast Google Books corpus, which gives you a general idea of the evolution of the term in English books between 1950 and 2019. Values are expressed as a percentage of the total corpus instead of occurrences.
Please note that this is not a domain-specific corpus. However, it provides an overview of community engagement across domains.
Community engagement increased steadily until 1997. It peaked in 2002 and plateaued briefly until 2004 to finally plummet to pre-1950 values.
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