Participatory Policymaking
Participatory policymaking empowers residents to propose, debate and vote on new or changed policies via meetings and online platforms.
It’s done in a variety of ways, but it’s essential to engage the full community at each step of the process and ensure that deliberations result in actual decision making, with a plan for guaranteeing accountability throughout implementation.
Participatory policymaking has been implemented in places such as Taiwan and Spain to introduce and adopt new government policies on issues such as transportation, environment, technology and public health.
The participatory policymaking process:
1. Debates
2. You propose
3. You decide
4. It gets done
“Participatory policymaking is an experiment for a new way of working together, to unconditionally trust when collaborating, to be more open and transparent, and to gain the potential to be trusted.”
Participatory policymaking in action:
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