As we know, means should be selected to serve certain ends or perform certain functions. As we become more conscious and intentional about the outcomes of our system interventions, decision-making processes and public participation programs - and the functions that can be performed by various Participatory Processes we might choose to use - we can select processes and approaches that serve the unique combination of requirements in the specific situations we're dealing with.
This page is intended to gather our thoughts about how to identify and articulate those outcomes and functions, so that we can use them to compare different approaches and combinations of approaches.
- Possible Outcomes Of Public Participation - What are the many outcomes we and other do (and might) expect from public participation activities?
- Functional Characteristics Of Public Participation Processes - What functions might we and others want public participation processes to have, and what process characteristics would fill those functions?
