1. An Introduction to the NGO Perspective by Michael Ewing
Public Participation
An Introduction to the NGO Perspective
by Michael Ewing

2. The Three Legged Convention
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3. The bread has to be good, but the filling is what makes it a sandwich !
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4. Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making
Who are the Public?
What is Participation?
What is Environmental Decision-Making?
What are the Tools we can use?
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5. A common understanding of the meaning of Public Participation
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6. What is Participation?
Public participation, means different things to different people.
The level at which the public is involved varies with the relevant legislation, and the attitudes of the other stakeholders.
Simply stated, to participate is to take part, to share and act together.
Participation is an essential part of developing a sustainable future
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7. DAD or DEAD
Studies indicate a serious gap in understanding and trust between stakeholders
Existing decision-making structures are often based on either the traditional DAD (Decide, Announce and Defend) or DEAD (Decide, Educate, Announce and Defend) methods, and this can be seen as one source of this gap in trust.
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9. Degrees of Citizen Power Arnstein’s Ladder
Increasing
Public
Power 8
Citizen Control 7
Delegated Power 6
Partnership 5
Placation 4
Consultation 3
Informing 2
Therapy 1
Manipulation
Degrees of Citizen Power
Degrees of Tokenism
Non-Participation.
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10. An Assessment of the Implementation of Articles 6,7 & 8
Law – Evaluate the national legislative frameworks
Effort – Assess the government’s actions to provide public participation, including the implementation of laws
Effectiveness – Assess if laws and government efforts resulted in effective practice
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11. Apply Values Very Good Good Intermediate Poor Very Bad
Justify with examples and explanation
Examples of good and bad practice
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12. Initial Findings Responses from across the region 13 Parties
3 Signatories
Follow up interviews
Ongoing research
Reporting in Sept
Thanks to the respondents so far
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17. Public Participation Practice
Wealth of expertise
Wide range of methods
Great lack of capacity
Lack of understanding
Cynicism
Clash between representative and participatory democracy
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18. Thank You Go raibh maith agat
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