Good Practice Participate
The Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector's website Good Practice Participate is set up to assist Government departments involve communities in decisionmaking. However, it includes a range of techniques for encouraging participation that many community organisations will find useful. These include Open Space Technology, Future Search, Participatory Appraisal, as well as the more common submission writing, questionnaires, interviews etc.
The specialised participatory methods section of the Good Practice Participate website is at:
www.goodpracticeparticipate.govt.nz/techniques/index.html#Specialisedparticipatorymethods11