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Engagement is a set of heterogeneous and articulated processes, actions and organisational behaviours aimed at developing relations and mutuality in between two or more parties. Specifically, the purpose of community engagement is to develop and sustain a “working relationship between one or more organisations and one or more community groups, to help them both understand and act on the needs or issues that the community experience.” (Scottish National Occupational Standards for Community Engagement) By Prato