Meaningful Engagement for Climate Adaptation and Resilience
Meaningful engagement with stakeholders and communities is critical for the success and durability of climate adaptation and resilience projects.
Technical assistance providers can explore and share the resources below to help applicants and recipients lay the foundation for successful climate adaptation and resilience projects in their communities. These resources can be used to inform project selection, the development of funding applications and long-term project implementation activities through intentional collaboration approaches.
Helpful Resources
- EPA’s Meaningful Engagement Policy outlines updates on how the agency intends to engage with the public and provide meaningful public participation opportunities in all of its programs and regions.
- Better Decisions Through Consultation and Collaboration is a resource guide for EPA staff on public involvement best practices and strategies.
- Capacity Building Through Effective Meaningful Engagement is intended to help create or expand plans for meaningful engagement with communities.
- Equitable Resilience Builder is an application that supports communities in resilience planning.
- The EPA Policy on Tribal Consultation with Indian Tribes establishes clear standards for the consultation process.
DISCLAIMER: These resources are not intended to prescribe when and how the public or the Agency should undertake specific actions, nor do they provide methodologies for how to assess the implications of climate change. These resources are also not policy guidance documents. Policy decisions about whether and how to undertake particular actions are the responsibility of the Agency’s program offices, in consultation with the Office of General Counsel (OGC) and relevant Office of Regional Counsel (ORC), which consider a wide range of decision-making factors, including resource constraints, as they work to advance environmental protection for all.