PROCESS DESIGN

PROCESS DESIGN
General purpose Participant Size and Participant
and specific mechanism and participant recruitment
goals methodology selection

Connection to
Participant Communication Locus of action policy process
preparation mode and plan and specificity of
recommendation

Recurrence and
iteration
 GENERAL PURPOSE AND SPECIFIC GOALS
Exploration Conflict Decision Collaborative
transformation making active

• the specific goals of public engagement concern the expectations sponsors have for the kind of
“public knowledge” that will generated during the process

• Direct public engagement seeks to achieve one or more of the following specific goals:

Informing Collecting Generating Obtaining Generating

the public data ideas feedback consensus
PARTICIPATION MECHANISM AND METHODOLOGY

In-person remote Online

mechanisms
SIZE AND PARTICIPANT SELECTION
Some process are open to the
public, while other involve Brings asset of individual
only experts or lay attitudes, value, interest and
stakeholders (Fung, knowledge to the table
2003/2006)

As representative of others,
these experts and
stakeholders bring the
cultures, missions and
mandates of the organizations
they represent to the table
 PARTICIPANT RECRUITMENT
• Once sponsors decide who should participate, conveners need to
begin recruitment

Voluntary Random Targeted

self-selection selection demographic Incentives
recruitment
PARTICIPANT PREPARATION

Common informational Research suggests that the

materials include quality of their input
presentation, panel improves when people
discussions, issue guides, have more and better
discussion book, and so on information
COMMUNICATION MODE AND PLAN

One-way Two-way Deliberative

communication
LOCUS OF ACTION
Typically focuses on the neighbourhood, community or municipal level and may occur
before a local legislative body, administrative body, or department
Sometime local public engagement is conducted with intended action or outcomes at
the state, national and international level
 CONNECTION TO POLICY PROCESS AND
SPECIFICITY OF RECOMMENDATIONS
• Some processes are designed with explicit connections to policy and
decision makers, while others have little or no connection to policy and
decision makers and instead seek to invoke individual or group action or
change.

Recurrence and iteration

• This design choice relates to how frequently a participatory process
occurs, that is, whether it is a one-time event or a longer term, ongoing
endeavour
 1.Here is the process design of direct public engagement, except
• General purpose and specific goals
• Participant mechanism and methodology
• Participant recruitment
• Community discussion (/)

2.Direct public engagement seeks to achieve one or more of the following specific goals: except
• Informing the public
• Deliberative communicaton (/)
• Collecting data

3.Example of one-way in communication mode and plan, except

• Websites
• Client survey (/)
• Public meeting