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work through complex issues, like climate change, community resilience, and conflict.
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work through complex issues, like climate change, community resilience, and conflict.
DemocracyCo is a world-renowned team with a proven track record in using democratic engagement to guide governments and stakeholders, and engage and mobilise communities. Our work offers a way to create sustainable solutions to complex problems: solutions that empower the community, align the diverse needs of individuals, governments and organisations, and give governments real, evidence-based solutions that help them to answer some of the big questions that face our world today.
Our work is nonpartisan and impartial, with clients including local, federal and state government; environmental, utility and infrastructure organisations; regional development authorities; non-profit and NGOs; and humanitarian and philanthropic organisations.
Our team is a global leader in democratic engagement, with a strong and proud pedigree of policy, politics, and deliberative engagement strategy and design, both in Australia and overseas.
With many years’ national and international experience, we have earned a global reputation for tackling some of today’s toughest questions, by creating the conditions for meaningful dialogue and fostering the type of understanding and collaboration that creates powerful, lasting change.
Our world is facing some of the greatest challenges that humankind has ever seen, and our need for innovation and change is more acute than ever before. But change cannot happen without a level of trust in our governments and institutions. Governments also cannot achieve change alone. Real, sustained change demands the support, expertise and united action of communities, industry and government – together.
In Australia and overseas, we are seeing rapidly declining levels of trust in our institutions: polarised groups who feel disenfranchised, disconnected and locked out of the decision-making process. We find ourselves in a state of trust gridlock, meaning that many of the reforms our world so desperately need don’t even get off the start line.
There is an urgent need to restore trust in public decision-making and leverage the combined expertise of communities, industry and government – so we can break this gridlock and move towards positive change.
Our clients include local, federal and state government; environmental, utility and infrastructure organisations; regional development authorities; non-profit and NGOs; and humanitarian and philanthropic organisations.
We have supported communities, governments and NGOs to tackle some of the most pressing and challenging environmental, peace-keeping and social issues of our day – as far afield as Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Philippines and the US; and as close to home as regional South Australia.
We do this by working with you and your stakeholders and or the community to co design sustainable and evidence-based solutions to the complex problems. We provide expert advice about how you can build democratic engagement into your policy and project development right from the outset: helping to ensure that you are using the right engagement methods in the most impactful way, at the right time and within budget. We do this through our advisory services, training programs and by co-creating Engagement Roadmaps with your team. We bring not only a wealth of experience in facilitation but also in extensive experience in public policy development, government communications and public administration across many portfolios – which means that we can provide advice that is cognisant of the context in which you work
If you want to learn more about how we can help you, we’d love to hear from you. Simply send us an email and we’ll be touch soon.
DemocracyCo’s work is undertaken on the lands and waters of Australia’s First Nations people. As we collaborate together, democracyCo looks to our First Nations people, the worlds oldest living culture, for guidance that will help sustain our connection to Country and inform the work that we do to bring people together. Our work is in service to Reconciliation and to moving forward together.
