News and Updates
About the ProgramPublic Engagement Roundtable: Western Canada
October 21, 2008 (Edmonton, AB)
Don Lenihan will be leading a discussion with high-level public servants from six provinces and territories to determine how all can work together to further the public engagment agenda and together develop the Crossing Boundaries Program.
Click here for more information. Public Engagement Roundtable: Eastern Canada
October 1, 2008 (Halifax, NS)
Don Lenihan will be leading a discussion with high-level public servants from six provinces and territories to determine how all can work together to further the public engagment agenda and develop the Crossing Boundaries Program.
Click here for more information. Trinidad Meetings
July 21, 2008 to August 19, 2008
Don Lenihan met with fifty public servants in the government of Trinidad and Tobago to discuss how the framework of public engagement might be applied within their government. He will return in the New Year to continue the discussion with the Cabinet.
Click here for more information. Australia and New Zealand Tour
July 15, 2008 to July 30, 2008 (Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart, Auckland, Wellington)
Don Lenihan visited six citiies in Australia and New Zealand, where he did seminars for public servants and politicians from all three levels of government.
Click here for more information. Summer Discussions
July 1, 2008 to August 30, 2008
We will be talking with provincial and territorial governments throughout the summer to discuss practical ways to learn from and work together to further a public engagment agenda. The discussions should conclude with 2 regional roundtables in early fall.
Click here for more information. Whitehorse Seminar - A New Model of Public Engagement: Giving Citizens, Communities and Stakeholders a Real Role
June 24, 2008 (Whitehorse, Yukon)
A seminar for public servants
Click here for more information. Victoria Seminar - A New Model of Public Engagement: Giving Citizens, Communities and Stakeholders a Real Role
June 20, 2008 (Victoria, BC)
A seminar for public servants
Click here for more information. Release of the final report on New Brunswick's Public Engagement Initiative
May 13, 2008
The final report of New Brunswick's Public Engagement Initiative was released at a national conference in Fredericton in May. It outlines a new model of public engagement and is available for download in our current publication section.
Click here for more information. Learning from New Brunswick: The Public Engagement Initiative
May 12, 2008 to May 13, 2008 (Fredericton)
A discussion of the findings of New Brunswick’s Public Engagement Initiative (PEI) and the launch of the Public Policy Forum’s Crossing Boundaries Governance Program.
Click here for more information. About the Program
Public policy issues today are often complex, cut across many aspects of life and affect a wide range of actors within our society. Governments are increasingly ill-equipped to address these issues on their own. Citizens, stakeholders and communities also have a role to play.
In response, the Public Policy Forum has created the Crossing Boundaries Governance Program to help governments deal more effectively with change and complexity through a new model of public engagement.
The program serves four purposes:
- it acts as a champion for the new model of public engagement;
- it provides advice and assistance at the political and public service levels to governments looking to experiment with the model or build the capacity and leadership needed to adopt it;
- it is a centre of expertise for innovative approaches to governance; and
- it is building a network of interested individuals and organizations seeking to share knowledge and experience on governance issues, especially public engagement.
Public Engagement Workshops
Since the fall of 2007 we have held over two dozen events in cities across Canada to explain the new model of public engagement, share lessons learned from five pilot projects in New Brunswick we used to test it, and to benefit from the feedback of participants. Through our new governance program we will continue to hold workshops and other events across Canada and abroad so that public servants, politicians, stakeholders and citizens can learn about and benefit from the new approach.
Recent Publications"It's More Than Talk: Listen, Learn and Act - A New Model of Public Engagement" The final report of the New Brunswick Public Engagement Initiative
Don Lenihan
April 2008
Progressive Governance for Canadians: What You Need to Know
Don Lenihan, John Milloy, Graham Fox, Tim Barber
March 2007
This book is a consolidation of the decade worth of discussion and thinking generated by Crossing Boundaries. The book focuses on the why and what of the public engagement model and led directly to New Brunswick's Public Engagement Initiative (PEI). The report for the PEI, available for download on this page, deals with the how of the model.
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