Capacity building for sustainable communities

The role of communities is integral in building a sustainable future since they have the ability to engage people with sustainability; inspiring and creating collective change. Sustainable communities often address behavioural changes as well as wider infrastructural or societal changes.

SISTech has worked with a number of community groups helping to deliver and evaluate projects. SISTech’s expertise lies in building community capacity, including facilitating agreement through stakeholder and community engagement, carrying out workshops and surveys, and providing advice on fund-raising and applications. SISTech has experience in evaluation of community projects including quantitative assessments of carbon savings and qualitative assessments of wider benefits of projects to communities, such as enhancing community-cohesion or health benefits.

SISTech has worked on energy, transport, food and waste community-based projects, and with a wide-ranging expertise in sustainability, is ideally placed to help community groups with a broad range of projects.

Example Projects

Applying Behavioural Economics to Energy Efficiency Projects – A review of how behavioural economics techniques could be used to improve energy efficiency campaigns