The Participation Playbook is now LIVE!
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The Participation Playbook is now LIVE!
We just held our launch event on September 27. Watch it below to see in in action! You can also watch with interpretation in Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
The Participation Playbook is an interactive online guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.
The Playbook synthesizes global knowledge on participation and makes it widely available in an accessible format. It walks you through the key design questions for planning a participatory program, such as participatory budgeting or a citizens’ assembly, providing just-in-time information, data, and options each step of the way.
Hundreds of government reformers have been testing and revising the beta version for the past year, and now you can register for an account and use the Playbook to plan your own participatory program — for free!
There are hundreds of guides and reports on how to design participatory and deliberative democracy programs (we’ve compiled the best ones in our resource center!). We know so much already about how to build open and participatory government, but this knowledge is not evenly or accessibly distributed. How do we address this?
The Participation Playbook provides a solution by getting the right knowledge in the hands of the right people at the right time in the most accessible way. People Powered and 60 partners have worked together to synthesize global knowledge and best practices on participation, develop a user-friendly interface walking you through key design questions and options, and create learning pathways to help you turn this knowledge into concrete plans. The result is a free “choose-your-own-adventure” style global tool.
Who is the Playbook for?
Government policymakers, staff members and officials interested in designing or building capacity to implement participatory programs.
Civil society organizations or coalitions that advocate for or support participatory programs.
International organizations and funders interested in promoting or supporting open government, public participation, or participatory and deliberative democracy.
What is the Playbook for?
Planning a new participatory program
Improving an existing program
Advocating to win approval for a program
Building capacity to effectively implement a program
Supporting multiple new programs across a region, an issue, or globally
What to do:
Create an account on the Playbook website, take a needs assessment quiz, and start to develop your own personalized playbook.
Apply for our mentorship and accelerator programs, to get expert human support to help you use the Playbook successfully and get the best results.
Contact us about partnership ideas, to use the Playbook to support your regional or global programs, members, or grantees.