Deliberation is a problem-solving group discussion that allows stakeholders with different backgrounds, interests, and values to listen, understand, potentially persuade, and ultimately come to reasoned, informed, and public-spirited collective decisions (Abelson et al., 2003). Deliberation can be expressed through different methods, such as citizens’ juries, deliberative forums, consensus conferences, etc.

Deliberative Processes Tasks Materials Generated
1) Identifying a collective decision that needs to be made and framing questions Appropriate framing:
Select/highlight aspects to be presented in deliberative forum List of highlights to be presented
Clarify and present the range of available perspectives

  • How will problems, arguments, information, and positions be presented?
Summary document presenting perspectives, problems, arguments, information, and positions
2) Identifying stakeholders that all need to be able to participate as peers in decision making Identify participating members of Research team and Management team List of attendees from Research team and Management team
Identify method for selecting participants

Identify ad hoc participants (representatives from local government, non-health sectors, and broader general public, including community organizations that represent vulnerable subgroups)

Create invitation

Method for selecting ad hoc participants
List of ad hoc participants
Invitation
3) Identifying and providing the appropriate background materials to inform decisions Create reader-friendly overview of program and local partnership

Create clear description of the process that will be used during the forum

Identify method for selecting participants

Create concise overview of range of perspectives that need to be considered

Write reader-friendly summary for academic literature

Summary documents
Summary document – chosen forum process
Description of method for selecting participants
Summaries of academic literature
4) Facilitating listening during the deliberative process itself Select facilitative approach/strategy Description of approach/strategy
Other relevant material
5) Facilitating the process of reaching a collective decision Select decision making approach Description of decision making approach

Ex. Agreement Certainty Matrix

6) Facilitating learning about the completed deliberative process After Action Review:

  • What was supposed to happen?
  • What actually happened?
  • Why was there a difference?
  • What can we learn from this?
After Action Review applied to:
1) Identifying collective decision and framing questions
2) Identifying stakeholders
3) Identifying background material
4) Facilitative approach/strategy
5) Decision making strategy

 

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