Process Evaluation for Community Participation

Butterfoss, Frances D.

doi:10.1146/annurev.publhealth.27.021405.102207

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“…These include the following: public influence (Lauber and Knuth 1999;Petts 2001;Rowe and Frewer 2000;Butterfoss 2006), consensus (Bass et al 1995;Innes 2004), increased understanding (Petts 1995;Laurian 2009), improved quality of decision (Laurian 2009;Brown and Wei Chin 2013) and increased trust (Wang and Wan Wart 2007;Laurian 2009). Other effectiveness criteria are also identified in the literature, such as representativeness (Crosby et al 1986;Rowe and Frewer 2000), complete information exchange (Crosby et al 1986;Rowe and Frewer 2000), independence (Lauber and Knuth 1999;Rowe and Frewer 2000), transparency (Lauber and Knuth 1999;Drew et al 2004) and cost-effectiveness (Rowe and Frewer 2000;Involve 2005).…”

Section: The Concept Of Public Participation Effectivenessmentioning

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Understanding the factors that make public participation effective in health policy and planning: a realist synthesis

Pagatpatan

Ward

2017

Aust. J. Prim. Health

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Abstract. Although researchers argue for the importance of involving the public in developing health policy, there has been little focus on central research questions -such as what techniques of public participation work, in what circumstances, and why. This paper presents a realist synthesis which identifies and explains the underlying mechanisms and specific contextual factors that lead to effective public participation in health policy and planning. Peer-reviewed, English language literature was searched, which resulted in 77 articles for review and synthesis. This synthesis uncovered the underlying mechanism of 'political commitment' that generates public participation effectiveness. The other three possible underlying mechanisms, namely: 'partnership synergy', 'inclusiveness' and 'deliberativeness', were found to potentially provide further explanation on public participation effectiveness for health policy and planning. The findings of this review provide evidence that can be useful to health practitioners and decision-makers to actively involve the public when drafting public health policies and programs and, more importantly, guide them in deciding which strategies to best employ for which contexts.

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Section: The Concept Of Public Participation Effectivenessmentioning

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Understanding the factors that make public participation effective in health policy and planning: a realist synthesis

Pagatpatan

Ward

2017

Aust. J. Prim. Health

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“…Furthermore, stakeholder involvement is assumed to enhance local ownership and increase local sense of responsibility (Butterfoss, 2006;Lachapelle and McCool, 2005). There is, however, very little empirical evidence that documents the degree to which participatory processes can raise participants' motivation to engage in risk preparedness or even their sense of responsibility for risk prevention.…”

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How much does participatory flood management contribute to stakeholders' social capacity building? Empirical findings based on a triangulation of three evaluation approaches

Buchecker

Menzel

Home

2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Recent literature suggests that dialogic forms of risk communication are more effective to build stakeholders' hazard-related social capacities. In spite of the high theoretical expectations, there is a lack of univocal empirical evidence on the relevance of these effects. This is mainly due to the methodological limitations of the existing evaluation approaches. In our paper we aim at eliciting the contribution of participatory river revitalisation projects on stakeholders' social capacity building by triangulating the findings of three evaluation studies that were based on different approaches: a field-experimental, a qualitative long-term ex-post and a cross-sectional household survey approach. The results revealed that social learning and avoiding the loss of trust were more relevant benefits of participatory flood management than acceptance building. The results suggest that stakeholder involvements should be more explicitly designed as tools for long-term social learning

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“…However, scholars also caution against "tokenism" in community participation processes whereby communities are given opportunities to express their opinions, perhaps making the project look more credible in the process, while the "expert" ultimately makes the decisions about project design and management (Buchan, 2003;Butterfoss, 2006). While we found similar concerns, the urban farmers in our study who were committed to community involvement reported creating specific and transparent opportunities for residents to influence decision-making.…”

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confidence: 48%