Learning Resources

This paper intends to investigate how civil societies are changing their composition, roles and relationships in response to the ensuing socio-political and economic changes in India. In addition, the paper also looks at what new capacities, opportunities and challenges are emerging for the civil society organisations in the changing contexts of India. It is aimed at facilitating critical reflections in an inclusive and bottoms-up manner with a view to develop fresh systematisation of knowledge on civil society.

Ernesto Sirolli got his start doing aid work in Africa in the 70's -- and quickly realised how ineffective it was.

Resilientville is a role-playing exercise which advances participant awareness of the short and long term benefits of problem solving at the neighborhood level.

The International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Certificate Program is a three module program intended to provide a broad-based learning experience covering all of the foundations of public participation.

A selection from the a webinar for the American Planning Association State Chapters Continuing Education Webinar, on Nov 9, 2012. It is designed to give an orientation to what issues are facing online public engagement, and how you can use those tools to reach the people who may not be showing up to your public meetings. 48% of Adults in the United States say that they have never been to a public hearing. We certainly need to be looking at some new ways to do public engagement. The online tools that are discussed provide us with some fantastic ways to start to change those numbers.

This article outlines fifteen aspects of the deliberative perspective that we view as essential to clarifying its purpose and distinguishing it from alternative means of community problem-solving.

Who says you can’t quantify public deliberation? It is true that quantitative measurement hasn’t been a strong suit of the field. It is also true that some of the most significant impacts, such as policy changes, are inherently difficult to quantify. But at this point, enough scholarly research and evaluative work has been done that is possible to pull together a concise statistical glimpse of the kinds of things these projects accomplish.

Great Paper from Public Agenda:

"Four Glimpses of Democracy's Future", a lecture by John Gastil (includes presentation slides and a question and answer period).

New report that helps parliaments consider what options might be the ‘best fit' for their own public engagement goals!

The 10th edition of the CIVICUS World Assembly took place at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal on 10-12 September 2011 under the theme “Civil society and global decision making: doing it better”.

The C2D2 community asks, "How do we know – what is the evidence to demonstrate – that using dialogue and deliberation makes a difference?” The following resources can help us evaluate our work to engage the public in dialogue and deliberation.

On January 21st 2010 collaboration practitioners from government, private and non-governmental organizations shared their ideas about our work.

Stronger communities and healthier democracies drive effective public health interventions; and careful deliberation through conversation is the key to successful implementation of responsive public health policy. This presentation reviews how the Hepatitis C Program listened and learned that an effective response is a sustainable response.

Learning circles help develop a deeper understanding of community problems and fosters critical thinking and analysis among circle participants. This presentation introduces the Learning Circles model and guides readers through how this might fit with their organization.

This presentation offers a US perspective and includes a look at public involvement and how it (and collaboration) have evolved at EPA.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research recently developed a citizen engagement framework as it will position CIHR to improve its access to valuable untapped public values, perspectives and experience. This presentation provides an overview of the process of developing this framework and outcomes from it.

This powerpoint presentation challenged participants to explore new ways of collaborating with each other using web 2.0. The experience mirrored the process of canada@150, a project that engaged 150 new public servants from across the country in a foresight process to develop a vision for the federal public service in 2017.