The next step is to decide which design options the entire process will have. Usually a participatory process aims to influence a stage of public and collective decision-making. To achieve this, consider employing the ADDIS – Decision Thinking model as a guide to identify the desired outcomes. Determine at which phase of this process the participatory activity should take place, and envision the desired outcomes.
1. Agenda Setting: Identify and prioritize issues to address
- Care: to understand the people concerned by a decision area.
- Initiate: to launch a process to address a particular issue along with collaborators.
- Define: to identify and prioritize the specific issues, problems or opportunities, to be addressed.
2. Drafting: Potential solutions and strategies are developed
- Ideate: to explore, brainstorm, benchmark and evaluate potential solutions.
- Develop: to transform potential solutions into draft decisions.
- Consult: to share drafts for inputs and to then integrate feedback.
3. Decision-Making: The most viable path forward is chosen
- Propose: is to suggest a decision be taken.
- Adopt: to consider and approve a decision through an appropriate process.
4. Implementation: Decisions are put into practice and monitored
- Deliver: to communicate and execute the agreed decision.
Monitor: to track and assess implementation of a decision against desired results.
5. Sense-making: Reflect on outcomes which will then inform future decisions.
- Harvest: to gather insights from implementation and the overall process.
Understand: to make sense of observations, to inform and inspire future decisions.
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