The Meaningful Engagement Toolbox began as a framework for improving meaningful engagement of human trafficking survivors for a small number of larger, mainstream anti-trafficking organisations. Over time, it evolved into a broader framework for how nonprofits, development organisations, government systems, and funders can improve how they engage people with lived experiences of the issues that they are working on. The current edition of the framework has become a toolbox to guide organisations and people working in the sectors that address social issues on how to better engage impacted communities and the movements that they’ve created.
Outlines the history, theory, and practices that underpin the Collective Threads Initiative’s approach.
Various rubrics, assessments, and planning tools intended to support implementation. Choose the ones that work best for your organization and align best with your work.
Your organisation, your existing collective knowledge, your community, the people you partner with, and the ways you navigate your local political and social climate.
The framework outlined in this handbook might be compared to a handbook on the fundamentals of gardening. How you implement it will depend on your climate and resources, and that will inform the tools that you choose.
