For nearly two decades IAP2 has been recognized as a global authority for practices and principles for authentic and effective public involvement, citizen engagement and consensus building. Through broad collaboration IAP2 has developed Principles and Ethics for authentic public participation that are widely accepted and practiced. IAP2's Core Values include:
1. Public participation is based on the belief that those who are affected by a decision have a right to be involved in the decision-making process.
2. Public participation includes the promise that the public's contribution will influence the decision.
3. Public participation promotes sustainable decisions by recognizing and communicating the needs and interests of all participants, including the decision makers.
4. Public participation seeks out and facilitates the involvement of those potentially affected by or interested in a decision.
5. Public participation seeks input from participants in designing how they participate.
6. Puplic participation provides participants with the information they need to participate in a meaningful way.
7. Public participation communicates to participants how their input affected the decision.
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IAP2 is great, but what are you proposing be done with these Core Values? Please be more specific so people know if their vote is saying "yay - I like these values" or "the IAP2 Core Values should be adopted as part of the Open Government Initiative" (or something else).
This is a Paid Memebership only organization?
Suggesting that much of the advance work being discussed on this website has been done. IAP2's Core Principles have served very well for several years, and recently The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD), the International Associationof Public Participation (IAP2) and the Co-Intelligence Institute led a collaborative effort to develop another standard set of principles with hope that all organizations in the field of public engagement could agree on.
The Seven Core Principals
1. Preparation - Consciously plan, design, convene and arrange the engagement to serve its
purpose and people.
2. Inclusion - Incorporate multiple voices and ideas to lay the groundwork for quality
outcomes and democratic legitimacy.
3. Collaboration - Support organizers, participants, and those engaged in follow-up to work
well together for the common good.
4. Learning - Help participants listen, explore and learn without predetermined outcomes --
and evaluate events for lessons.
5. Transparency - Promote openness and provide a public record of the people, resources, and
events involved.
6. Impact - Ensure each participatory effort has the potential to make a difference.
7. Sustainability - Promote a culture of participation by supporting programs and institutions
that sustain quality public engagement.
To clarify, IAP2 is membership based organization but its Spectrum, Core Principles and Ethics are intended to be used with attribution however desired.
Thanks for mentioning the Core Principles for Public Engagement, JDG. We've added them to this dialogue with the title "Ask Federal Agencies to Adopt the Core Principles for Public Engagement." Please go to http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/2510-4049 to vote the Principles up!
Thanks for your confirmation that it IAP2 is paid membership organization.
Core values are great...but how to implement them is another issue. Isn't this about strategies AND techniques? Can you help with that?
Authentic (not fake) public participation improves decisions. The foundations of authentic public participation are based on understanding and honoring the values of the community, sponsors, and atakeholders. The foundations are about understanding and clarifying the problem(s) and the decison process, and about achieving specific, purposeful and productive goals. So yes, authentic public participation are about accountable goals and strategy and the techniques that can be employed to achieve them.
While IAP2 has taken the field of public participation far in terms of how government agencies can engage the public, the locus of control in all these principles is government institutions and elected officials. I believe we need to recenter our governance around We the People (all citizens) as the locus of control. So that government is in service to citizens, not the other way around.
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