Commissioning to Facilitate Community Building & Development
According to the book, “Asset-Based Commissioning: Better Outcomes, Better Value,” asset-based commissioning is an approach that enables communities and people, along with organisations, to become equal co-producers and co-commissioners while making best complimentary use of every asset, via self-help, to enhance individual lives as well as community outcomes. The 2010 report, “A Glass Half Full” by the Local Government Association (LGA), suggested that commissioning should come up with approaches to facilitate community building and community development, and world-class commissioning should: · Be in line with the initiatives that focus on wellbeing and place-shaping · Promote involvement at the population-level, not just in the commissioning process, but also to decide the activities to be commissioned · Facilit...