How to achieve impact?

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How to achieve impact?

• Dresden Training Workshop
• Pierre-Benoit Joly, INRA/TSV

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• PARTICIPATION WORKS!
• 21 techniques of community participation for the
  21st century
• http//www.neweconomics.org/gen/

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• I only went to be nosy. I just went to see what
  was going on and before I knew what had happened
  I was in the thick of it. I went Friday,
  Saturday, went back Sunday for an hour or two and
  then Monday night as well. I thought it was
  brilliant.
• Donna Fallows, local resident, West Silvertown
• Theres a lot of loose talk about community
  participation, consultative processes and so on,
  but its far from clear that people understand
  what this means. This guide is invaluable,
  defining the scene, providing contacts, and
  shedding light on what is an increasingly
  important aspect of delivering sustainable
  development at the local level.
• Jonathon Porritt
• For me, the future search conference was a
  personal milestone ... We would have been a lot
  poorer without the conference. The young people
  will never forget it.
• Jane Yeadon, local resident, Forres, Moray,
  Scotland
• We will also consider how to encourage public
  participation in decision making ... involving
  local communities in identifying problems and
  opportunities ... and in taking action for
  change.
• From Opportunities for change, the government
  consultation paper on sustainable development

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• But what about its impact?

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• From  single decision  to policy process
• Public action
• Collective learning
• Collective intelligence

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• Possible political roles of public participation
• Indirect political role
• Promoting communication between science and the
  public
• Stimulating public debate
• Awareness building
• Raising sensitivity for method
• Agenda setter
• Exploration of objectives
• Filter of policy alternatives
•  Blockade-runner 
• Implementation and evaluation of policies
• (EuropTA, Butschi and Nentwich)

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Roles of participation in TA
Raising Knowledge Forming Attitudes Initialising Action
Tech/ Science Aspects Scientific Assessment (options,con-sequences) Agenda setting (influence and stimulate public debate, Introduce visions etc.) Reframing of debate (propose new initiatives find new orientation)
Social Aspects Social Mapping (stake holders, conflicts) Mediation (help actors reflect and communicate bridge building) Propose new decision making processes (new ways of governance new debate)
Policy aspects Policy analysis (explore objectives, assess policies) Restructure policy debate Decisions about Pol innovations New legislation
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• 2. How are various actors interested to be
  engaged / take on board the results of Citizen
  Participation?
• Costs and benefits for
• Policy makers
• Stakeholders
• Media

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• 3. Participation and governance style
• Typology of modes of governance
• (STAGE Report)
• discretionary
• educational
• deliberative
• corporatist
• market
• agonistic

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• 4. Learning from experience and use of best
  practices in the design of Citizen Participation
• How to impact public policy?
• Keys to an increase legitimacy of Citizen
  Participation (equity, fairness, competence,
  independent evaluation, publicity, traceability)
• How can public authorities be engaged in a
  participatory exercise?

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• Introduce a legal provision?
• Obligation to  take into account  / detailed
  answer of the commissionner explaining
  agreement-disagreement and the link with decision
  making process.

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• Public participation and inclusive /distributed
  innovation processes
• How to maximise dissemination? Which Role of the
  media?

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• Be professionnal!
• Dont hesitate to invest a lot for high quality!
• Stick to the basic principle of participation!