10 tips to ensure a meaningful dialogue with your primary constituents

Resilient Roots: conquering the feedback loop – Part 4 of 5: “Dialogue”

By Isabelle Büchner (Accountable Now) and Belén Giaquinta (CIVICUS)

February 11, 2020

 

By now, you have designed your accountability feedback mechanism, and you have collected and analysed the feedback from your primary constituents. Now it is time for perhaps the most important part of building trust with your primary constituents: meaningful dialogue.

 

Meaningful dialogue means going back to the people who gave you feedback and discussing the questions, findings, and responses together. This can happen in a number of ways that do not necessarily involve an in-person conversation. Below we list several examples of how Resilient Roots partners have done this. The dialogue step allows your primary constituents to directly inform the decisions and changes you make in response to the feedback you received, and like so “close the feedback loop”.

 

In this blog post we want to share common challenges you may encounter during dialogues with your primary constituents, and 10 tips for how to make this process more rewarding.

 

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