Abstract:
The Community-Government Collaboration on Policy was supported through the Social Development Partnerships
Program of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC). We operated as a community of practice
from March 2008 to March 2009. Our purpose was twofold: to develop an effective policy monitoring process that
could be undertaken regularly by communities, and to create an information-rich guide to successful collaboration
on policy. Because our collective experience was most closely associated with the issue of poverty reduction, it is the
lens through which we viewed collaboration on policy. The lessons we present, however, are equally applicable to
any complex or â wickedâ problem.
