Collaborative Governance: Ensuring Inclusive Citizen Participation

Recipients participated in a virtual course on Collaborative Governance, in which they increased their understanding of methods for managing community involvement in participatory processes to enhance public good. Participants identified practices that foster youth participation in decision-making; promote engagement across cultures and societies; effectively incorporate voices from different social and ethnic groups; and focus on post-conflict and gender-aware programming. They also gained an understanding of how to take inventory of an institutional setting in different countries; identified different strategies to bring multilateral funds into domestic institutions and to connect local communities to the ministries tasked with managing those funds in a decentralized manner; and discussed the challenges of conducting monitoring and impact evaluation in collaborative governance and what steps can be taken to address these challenges.