Using consultative processes

Description

Using consultative processes involves systematically engaging relevant stakeholders in structured dialogue to gather diverse perspectives, build consensus, and inform decision-making. This strategy aims to address issues of exclusion, miscommunication, and ineffective policy implementation by ensuring that affected parties contribute to solutions. Through transparent consultation, it fosters shared ownership, enhances legitimacy, and increases the likelihood of successful, sustainable outcomes in organizational, community, or policy contexts.

Context

An effective consultative process may be established and implemented with concerned groups of society where formulation and decision-making on all programme components are based on a nationwide consultative process drawing on community meetings, regional workshops and national seminars, as appropriate. This process would be designed to ensure that views of women and men on needs, perspectives and constraints were reflected equally in programme design and that solutions were rooted in specific experience. The poor and underprivileged would be priority groups in this process.