A global community of democracy researchers, practitioners and interested citizens who crowd-source data on democratic innovations from around the world.
Involve are experts in public participation. Through both research and practice they seek to radically transform the relationship between citizens and their governments to better use the creativity, energy, knowledge, skills and resources of all.
This tool provides practical information for those working to involve people. By registering you can add methods, cases, library resources, news and experts to our database.
The Participation Toolkit, now in its third edition, has been compiled to support NHS staff to involve patients, carers and members of the public in their own care and in the design and delivery of local services. It offers a number of tried and tested tools along with some more recently developed approaches.
Participation Cymru is a partnership of public and third sector organisations hosted by WCVA. They work with public service organisations in the public, private and third sectors to achieve better public engagement in the design, development and delivery of citizen-centred services for the people of Wales.
Dialogue by Design, as part of the OPM Group, specialises in running public and stakeholder engagement processes using online, paper-based and face-to-face methods.
The purpose of this guide to citizen engagement is to strengthen the foundation for participatory governance within the federal government, in particular in agency decision making.
The core of this publication is the 'framework for an ideal empowering authority' - a benchmark setting out the standard that all authorities, working with their communities and partners, should be aspiring to reach.
This diagnostic and toolkit has been developed by Sciencewise- ERC to help people within organisations who are interested in improving their organisation's use of dialogue and engagement.
This site is Demsoc's Open Policymaking discussion space and the centre of our project, where we bring together a range of contributions from citizens, campaigning organisations, businesses, academics and officials.