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Grundtvig, People and politics

Fundaci

DesenvolupamentComunitari,Catalunya.

Local Group

Kunbabony, the 27th of September


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PREAMBULE: We wanted to know

everything about participation without

avoiding self-criticism

How have youdone it?


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BACKGROUND: We have studied 5

projects*, introduced by the local group:

Nou Barris (BCN): civil

management of public

equipment V.: Neighbourhood

conflict S.C.: Youth issue Girona: territory

sustainable development

Catalunya: water supplymanagement

consultation

*The study cases are introduced and explained in the pepol web page (link))

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OBJECTIVE of the group: to put the focus

on the methods and techniques

which (might) have

enabled 1. a real

participation (of

everybody) 2. and a

good articulation

between people and

politics, 3. and led

through them to a real

TRANSFORMATIONof the reality, in and

around the community.


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-The method is a process to bring the expected

result. It implies the use of a strategy (How will weget to the result?)-The technique is about the trick which willenable the change. It implies the use of a tactic.- The right use of the technique must help to

implement the strategy, in order to produce the

changes expected.

In this framework, we have come to theconclusion that:


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We have then followed these

Guidelines:

-To identify a grid of criteria to analyse the Methods

and Techniques.-To draw from the projects the methods and

techniques used.-To find the tactic/strategy behind them, in order not

to loose the essence of the exercise.-To order the methods and techniques by families.

-Then we have analyzed more in details two of them

-We have pointed out a few results-And a few problems

-And we have come to some recommendations,

trying to take into account what the result expected

from these methods and techniques was.


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Methods to induce the transformation:

Mediation

Mixt grup of negociation

Territory School

Citizen Council

Strategy: redistributing roles,according to established profiles

Strategy: redistributing roles,according to potentialities

Strategy:Getting to the corners

Strategy: Training to empower

The example of the Citizen Council
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Appropriate techniques to make the method

successful, that is:

- to enable true participation of people, through self expression

and creativity: interviews; bordergame, hidden agenda- To enable a realcollective participation (sharing): dialog

caf; DAFO/SWOT; cineforum..)

- to try to get to the whole territory (Consultation)- to try to get to the right actors to operate the right changes

(sociogramme)- To enable the sustainable implementation of the change through

the participation ofthe politicians: Agreement meetings;Negociation group...

- To enable the participation in theimplementation/execution of the decision and the follow-up: Plan of Action, Follw Up Commission; Promotor Group...)

- To create complicity, a reliance atmosphere, i.e.to connect:meals, appropriate infrastructure, potatoes, stones


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List of techniques (and tactics)

Interviews (to enable self-expression and creativity) Sociogrammes (to identify and display roles)

Caf dialog (to enable equal participation) Agreement meetings (solid basis to re-build relations) Hidden Agenda (to express the hidden thoughts) Bordergame (to help expressivity and creativity to feel comfortable) ITT+Video (to canalise the emotions and creativity) Training Tenders (to answer the needs of people) Participatory Management (to shift to civil management of

public space) Horizontal Management Organ (to change the management

mentality) F-Up mechanisms (Plan of Actions, F.Up Comm.,

Promotor Group) (common vision and control of the next steps, to

avoid to forget about them)

The example of the bordergame


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2. The scientific knowledge is important to get forward:how to combine this knowledge and the divulgation ofthis knowledge in the short time of the process.

3. Lobby and Pressure groups dominate (Projects of

individuals vs. Projects of representatives; Participation vs.Co-management).

4. Difficult to facilitate all the conditionsfor a goodparticipation ( translation (language and discourses)),

infrastructure (kidgarden), resources (money, equipment)

Problems (1):

It is difficult that thenormal people

participate Where is the initiative

coming from and who runit ?


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Problems (2):

To match different

calendars and timingof the different actors(government, parliament,

NGOs, people) is notalways possible (time not

always available) The politicians often

participate only byelectoral interest

To be too exigent with

participation process canlead to frustration: we do asmuch as we can (the ideal

participation is utopian).

What is a good tactic towards the politicians ?
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-Be careful with who initiates the project and facilitate the

proces ( it is good to use a third party to mediate in the

process).

-Be aware of the limits (small is beautiful! The smaller, the

easier, the bigger, the more complex!) and make it as

participatory as possible (Sometimes the actors involved are

not the whole population, but the right ones)

-Choose the right tactic and strategy towards a clear objective

(Importance of creativity, self-expression and innovation) and

decide how the methods and techniques are to be used).

-Work towards a culture of the participation and not only for

participatory projects

Recommendations
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As a conclusion

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Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer, it moves twosteps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizonruns ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never

reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keepwalking(Eduardo Galeano)


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