Engagement in Practice: Model for Project-Based Community Engagement [Central American NGO] Case Study.

The landscape of community-engaged engineering and design is evolving as many global communities have experienced infrastructure development in recent decades, climate change and local crises impact peoples' environments, and calls grow for more community-led participatory development. Through its years in operation, Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Guatemala has developed approaches for addressing these challenges in their programs, but found a need for a tool to evaluate, communicate, and more effectively implement them with their stakeholders. A Model for Project-Based Community Engagement was developed to facilitate reflection on program design, development, and analysis in just such cases. This recently-created model was applied by EWB Guatemala staff in their work and is presented as a case study here for how the model can be applied. The model is shown to provide an effective framework for reflection on the program's structures, and the organization plans to further utilize it going forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]