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Policy design, impact assessment and evaluation
Citizen Participation for More Co-Created Policies?
Learn everything you need to know about involving citizens in the policy making process; from citizens consultation to the more participatory approach of stakeholder/citizen engagement.
This course explores how to actively engage citizens in co-creating policies at all levels of governance.
The course starts by addressing the common objections to participation (Citizen participation? Hell no!). and then showcases inspiring instances of citizen engagement throughout Europe. Then, it explores a variety cutting edge tools and methods which can be used to go beyond the usual suspects, explore how to, effectively and concretely, design a participatory process, and how to weave citizen participation into the policymaking process. It explores how to integrate participation into the policy making culture of public authorities. The course concludes by discussing how you can start deploying and/or experimenting with more engaging co-creation processes in your own institution.
What will you learn
You will learn:
- How to transfer existing inspiring co-creation practices from elsewhere to your own institution
- How to design a citizen participation process
- How to go beyond the usual suspects
- How to integrate citizen participation within a policymaking process
- How to make citizen participation a new culture of policymaking
- How to experiment with citizen participation methods and tools?
Course methodology/highlights
The course includes inspiring practices from all over Europe, concrete tools and methods to enable participation, a provocative serious game, and tips & tricks for experimentation.
The course is led by experts with research and practical experience in SH consultation, and citizen engagement with field practice experience as well as research expertise at both local level (small to large city, region) and national-European level (ministry, European Commission).
At the end of this course you will be able to:
- Better understand the added value (and possible risks) of participation and co-creation of policies with stakeholders and citizens (going beyond consultation)
- Discover concrete, operational tools and methods to install participation
- Design your own participatory process
- Compare genuine participation process from ‘participation-washing’
- Install participation as a new practice, a new normal for policymaking
- Judge when and why involving stakeholders and citizens in a policymaking process makes sense and has added value (or not)
This course is one of the courses we are offering in the area of Better Regulation.
Are you interested in taking a different course in the area of better Regulation, please click below:
Strategic Foresight in Policymaking | Regulatory Impact Assessments
Public officials, civil servants, policy consultants and policy analysts who work in government or parliamentary institutions, in EU Member States or other countries that seek to better understand stakeholder and citizen participation, and to better foresee how it could be embedded in their own institution as a new policymaking practice.
Project number: 2420306
Online Course
For this online course we make use of Zoom
Senior Project Officer
Ms Eveline Hermens
Tel: +31 43 3296259
e.hermens@eipa.eu
Discounts
EIPA member fee
EIPA offers a discount to all civil servants working for one of EIPA’s supporting countries, and civil servants working for an EU institution, body or agency
Who are the supporting countries?
Civil servants coming from the following EIPA supporting countries are entitled to get the reduced fee: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden.
For all other participants, the regular fee applies
Early bird discount
The early bird discount is not cumulative with other discounts or promo codes, except for the EIPA member fee.
Loyalty coupon
As a token of appreciation we offer all our participants a loyalty coupon for one of our future courses. The offer can be shared with colleagues and relevant networks. The coupon will expire one year after its release. This discount is not cumulative with other discounts, except for the EIPA member fee.
Confirmation
Confirmation of registration will be forwarded to participants on receipt of the completed online registration form.
Payment
Prior payment is a condition for participation.
Cancellation policy
For administrative reasons you will be charged € 50 for cancellations received within 7 days before the activity begins. There is no charge for qualified substitute participants.
EIPA reserves the right to cancel the activity up to 1 week before the starting date. In that case, registration fees received will be fully reimbursed.
A few days before the start of the course you will receive the log-in details for accessing the course materials. You can log in here.
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Programme
| 08.45 | Registration of participants |
| 09.00 | Welcome and quick tour of presentation – How familiar are you with participation, citizen engagement, co-creation processes, etc.? Christophe Gouache, Designer & researcher at Strategic Design Scenarios [SDS] |
| 09.20 | Introduction to participatory policymaking In this session, we will explore the key concepts: policy design with users, participatory democracy and co-creation with citizens & stakeholders |
| 09:45 | The ladder of participation in practice: a policymaking tool In this session, we will see how multiple levels of participation can be used as a planning tool for stakeholder and citizen engagement |
| 10:00 | But, not everyone is convinced about participation … for so many reasons … In this session, we will play a game: Citizen participation? Hell no! |
| 10:30 | Feedback and conversation: What debates did the game bring up? |
| 10:45 | Democratic innovations through participatory processes and experiments In this session, we will discuss stakeholder and citizen participation cases from all over Europe, at all levels of governance, and relating to various policy questions/subjects |
| 11:15 | Break |
| 11:30 | Participatory policy foresight? Three cases of stakeholder and citizen engagement at different levels of governance
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| 12:30 | Doing OK? Opening up the conversation. Out of all the cases we’ve seen, which ones inspire you? Which ones bother you? Which could you consider copying/adapting/trying out? |
| 12:55 | In the next session, we’ll see … Quick tour of the content of the next session. |
| 13:00 | End of the session |
| 08.45 | Registration of participants |
| 09.00 | Welcome and quick tour of the agenda of the session Christophe Gouache |
| 09.15 | Quick reminder of the last session key learnings |
| 09:30 | Beyond democratic innovations, can participatory practice become a new normal practice when making policies? In this session, we will explore cases on how participatory methods can be implemented on a daily basis; as a new ordinary reflex. We will look at concrete examples of public authorities trying out and experimenting with unusual participatory tools and methods. |
| 10:30 | Doing OK? Opening up the conversation. In the previous session, several practical ways of working have been explored. Could you see yourself adopting some of those practices? Could you imagine your administration and/or colleagues trying out some of those practices? What about your elected officials? What about the hierarchy of your organisation? |
| 10:45 | Break |
| 11:00 | Two key dimensions:
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| 11:05 | Let’s try a tool: The Participation Therapist! A tool that helps anyone who is in charge of or considering installing a participatory process to ask themselves the key questions to design their process |
| 11:30 | So, how did it go? Opening up the conversation What do you think? Do you think the questions of the Participation Therapist could help you when designing a process of citizen and/or stakeholder engagement? |
| 11:45 | Now … After this course, if you had to implement and design a participation process … what would you do and how? (groups of 3 participants) In this session, you are invited to imagine how, after the course, you would design and experiment with a potential participation process. |
| 12:30 | Could some of you share their plans, their intentions? In this session, you are invited to share your plans in plenary to see and compare your approaches and strategies |
| 12:55 | Final takeaways and advice |
| 13:00 | End of the course |