Process Driver 5 - Community Snapshot
Reflecting
What do we know already?
Things to do
Use the Community Snapshot Tool [PDF | Word] to gather the personal knowledge within your community. Try to talk to lots of different types of people eg. people from other cultures, young mums, indigenous people, the unemployed, people with disabilities or special needs, working men, young people etc. The Sample Community Snapshot.
Write a summary of the views you receive. Make sure you note missing groups and don't just pick the views you like! Include all of them.
This step may also include photos. You could ask lots of different people to take 5 photos of things they like about their community and 5 photos of things they dislike. This will give you a good pictorial record of your community as it is now and provide a way to see the changes.
You may find the Reflecting on Experience Tool [PDF| Word] is useful here.
Record your response to these points.
Interpreting
Why is it important to us?
Questions to ask
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How will the information you have gathered from your community affect the way you will go forward?
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What does the community's self report tell you about their readiness and capacity to be involved in planning and acting for the future (readiness and capacity assessment)?
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Where else might you get different types of information, for example, statistics?
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Has anyone else done this work before? Can you get access to it?
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How will this other information affect the decisions you may make?
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What has the information told you about the best ways of encouraging participation and support within your community?
Record your response to these questions.
Deciding
What will we do?
Questions to ask
You might find the Action Planning Tool [PDF | Word] helpful.
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Have you got enough information to be able to describe this community in ways the community can identify with?
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How will this description be shared with the community? How will the community be able to express its agreement or otherwise with this description?
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How will the record of this description be kept? How sensitive is it? Who will be able to see it?
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How will this information be used in the future?
Record your response to these questions.
Acting
Let's do it!
Questions to ask
You can use this section to plan what you are going to do or describe what you did about:
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building a community snapshot
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who will be or who was involved in the mapping process
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how they will be or were involved
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what different types of people will be or who were spoken to
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who may be or has been missed out.
Record your response.
Evaluating
How did it go?
Questions to ask
You may find the Reflecting on Experience Tool [PDF | Word] is useful here.
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How did the way the community snapshot was built affect the description recorded?
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What would you do differently next time and why?
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