Policy Challenges
Our communities face big challenges - climate change, social exclusion, declining trust in public institutions, and so many more. Meaningful public participation can help governments address these challenges. By sharing decision-making power, governments can make communities more resilient to the impacts of climate change, better include marginalized residents, and open up new spaces for everyone to participate in civic life.
But it’s hard to engage people in decision-making in meaningful and effective ways! Governments and civil society organizations face many common challenges:
The Participation Playbook can help you overcome these challenges. It offers specific strategies, tactics, and approaches that have been proven to work in diverse contexts around the world. Learn more about these participation solutions.
Policy Spotlights
Launching a participatory program focused on a specific issue can present additional challenges. As you work through the Playbook, you’ll find content to help you design a process for key policy issues. Our first policy focuses are climate change and digital policy.
