What are the benefits of using VOiCE
Survey evidence from users of VOiCE has identified the following major benefits of using the tool:
- Providing a common language for community engagement.
- Increased clarity of purpose for community engagement.
- Enabling shared planning of community engagement with colleagues/partners and communities.
- Enabling shared conduct of community engagement with colleagues/partners and communities.
- Enabling shared evaluation of community engagement with colleagues/partners and communities.
- Improved quality of community engagement processes and methods.
- Improved quality of community engagement outcomes.
- Improved capacity to report on community engagement.
- Consistency of approach to community engagement by colleagues/partners.
- Improved capacity to co-ordinate and manage community engagement.
- Storing and retrieving information about community engagement initiatives.
- Enabling practical application of the National Standards for Community Engagement.
- Increasing the efficiency of community engagement.
