Participants
The success of participation depends upon being clear about who the participants are and what role they are playing.
The involvement of stakeholders, citizens, communities and consumers is often discussed as if these groups are interchangeable. Actually, they are all quite different.
Participants themselves need to know what role they are expected to play within any given participatory process, and they may play multiple roles.
In general terms, there are two ways of thinking about selecting participants:
- Open-anyone that wants to should be able to participate.
- Selective-the numbers or types of participants who may be chosen as part of the process.
There are three main selection approaches:
- Representative: cross-section of the target audience.
- Instrumental: those with appropriate power, knowledge.
- Required: those required by any guiding regulation, funding regime etc.
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