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Hallo Bundestag – Elected. Selected. Together.

We aim to implement Electoral District Days throughout Germany, in which randomly selected citizens engage in a constructive exchange with each other and with the members of the German Bundestag from their constituency.

Updated November 11, 2025

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CHAT (CHoosing All Together) Simulation Exercise

“Choosing All Together” (CHAT) is a small group simulation exercise that engages groups of people in informed deliberations about spending priorities related to health.

Updated July 23, 2025

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Dialogue-to-Change (Study Circles)

A community engagement method which emphasizes small group deliberation to address relevant issues of public concern, study circles involve regularly scheduled facilitated meetings of diverse participants.

Updated June 29, 2025

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Hierarchical Card Sorting (HCS)

A simple card-sorting tool for qualitative research and inquiry, which can also be useful for planning and evaluation. A HCS can help make people’s informal and tacit knowledge more explicit and publicly available, contestable and usable.

Updated May 29, 2025

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Feedback Frames for Prioritizing Options (Idea Rating / Score-voting)

An efficient, reliable, and flexible technique for rating ideas, with instant results. This simple analog tool uses secret score-voting to recognize levels of agreement and avoid traditional voting problems such as the bandwagon effect, choice overload and vote-splitting.

Updated May 29, 2025

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Deliberative Delphi

The Deliberative Delphi (Citizens Delphi) is a qualitative co-creation and participation process for stakeholder and expert consultations. Analysis methods specially adapted to target setting, planning of measures and sketching of solutions are used in the evaluation.

Updated May 28, 2025

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World of Communities Social Impact Game Simulator

World of Communities is a strategic social impact board game tool promoting civic engagement and stakeholder collaboration. It fosters entrepreneurship, negotiation, and responsibility, encouraging players to step out of their comfort zones for collaborative success.

Updated May 28, 2025

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Human Rights Lens

The Human Rights Lens addresses how not all civic practices progress democracy and how language and sources can be used as a tool to provide cultural and historical context to progress a more inclusionary approach.

Updated May 28, 2025

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The People's House

The People’s House is an initiative which brings together local community members with their MP, enabling community members to actively participate in democracy between elections.

Updated May 28, 2025

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InterGenerational Dialogues

InterGenerational Dialogues was a series of events created to host conversations between individuals over 65 and high schoolers. Each event offered a different topic for the groups to discuss to foster enhanced communication and shared understanding between the generations.

Updated May 28, 2025

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Democracy Lab

Democracy Lab is a two part workshop that asks students to engage with questions of democracy, and what it means to participate.

Updated May 28, 2025

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Palava Hut System

“Palava” is an English-based creole word that translates to “problem” or “issue.” Liberia's Palava Hut System offers a reconciliatory space for healing through community-based interactions in the wake of conflict.

Updated May 28, 2025

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Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs)

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are led by state and non-state actors involved in implementing non-violent constructive dialogue between victims and perpetrators of human rights violations and violence to initiate and achieve healing and reconciliation.

Updated May 28, 2025

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Community Based Participatory Evaluation in Nonprofit Performance Assessment

Updated May 28, 2025

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Stanford Online Deliberation Platform

An experimental, web-based platform that uses an automated moderator to facilitate the online use of the Deliberative Polling methodology. The moderator encourages the consideration of multiple arguments and helps to maintain civility, equitable participation, and collaboration.

Updated May 28, 2025

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The Vorarlberg Bürgerrat model, aka Citizens' Councils

The Vorarlberg Bürgerrat model, aka Citizens' Councils, was included in OECD's report on Innovative Citizen Participation. Based on Jim Rough's Wisdom Council Process, it addresses community issues in a relatively brief and inexpensive manner by facilitated creative exploration.

Updated May 28, 2025

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vTaiwan

vTaiwan is an open consultation process, consisting of online and in-person discussions, which brings together experts, government officials, stakeholders, and citizens to create consensus and recommendations for national legislation.

Updated May 27, 2025

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Community Driven Development

Community-driven development (CDD) empowers participating citizens and communities to control the development process, resources, and decision-making to address their self-identified needs. The community typically plans and builds a project, going on to monitor its progress.

Updated May 27, 2025

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Conversation Cafés

Conversation Cafés are openly hosted conversations designed to engage participants in stimulating dialogue on relevant societal issues, thereby allowing them to express and develop informed opinions in a mutually respectful way.

Updated May 27, 2025

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Citizens' Jury

A Citizens’ Jury is a small group of randomly selected citizens, representative of the demographics in the area, that come together to reach a collective decision or recommendation on a policy issue through informed deliberation.

Updated May 27, 2025