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Free Engagement Strategy and Framework Audit

Upload your engagement strategy, policy, framework or public participation plan. CE Canvas reviews it against a fixed rubric and shows where staff would still be guessing.

A printed community engagement framework open on a desk, showing engagement principles, a participation spectrum from inform to empower, and a four-step engagement process

Audit your framework now

PDF, Word, text or Markdown up to 4 MB. You see the headline findings in about two minutes.

Your document is used only to produce this audit. It is not stored and not used to train models. The audit is advisory and is not legal advice.

Audit your strategy or framework

Best fit

  • You have an engagement strategy, policy, framework or public participation plan that staff are expected to follow.
  • Implementation, measurement or reporting varies across teams and projects.
  • You want evidence of the gap between the document and day-to-day practice before a review cycle.

What you get

  • A framework usability score, overall and by dimension.
  • The five most significant blind spots, each tied to the passage in your document.
  • The decisions a new project manager still could not make using the document alone.
  • Priority improvements to the policy, guidance, templates or decision tools.
  • A framework-to-practice readiness rating and a recommended next step.

How it works

  1. 1

    Upload your strategy or framework as PDF, Word or text, or paste it in. Nothing is stored.

  2. 2

    The CE Canvas AI assistant scores it against six fixed dimensions and shows the headline findings in about two minutes.

  3. 3

    Enter your email to unlock the full report with all five blind spots, risks and recommendations. We email it to you.

  4. 4

    If useful, we walk through the findings together in a 30-minute implementation workshop.

Part of the Improving established engagement practice path.

Before you decide

Practice guides behind this offer

Read how we think about the problem this offer addresses.

Operationalizing an engagement framework

Why the hard part starts after the strategy or framework is approved, and what consistent practice needs.

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The IAP2 spectrum of public participation, explained

What the levels of community engagement mean, what the IAP2 Board is changing and why it matters for practice.

Read the guide

From training to practice: the implementation gap

Applying engagement training consistently on every project is harder than the training itself.

Read the guide

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