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What is a participation process?

A participation process is a sequence of participation activities (for example, first completing a survey, then making proposals, discussing them face-to-face or virtual, and finally prioritizing them) in order to define and make a decision on a specific subject.

Examples of participatory processes: an election process for committee members (where nominations are first presented, then debated and finally a nomination is chosen), participatory budgets (where proposals are made, evaluated economically and voted on with the money available), a strategic planning process, the collaborative drafting of a regulation or standard, the design of an urban space or the production of a public policy plan.