A participatory process is a sequence of participatory activities (e.g. first filling out a survey, then making proposals, discussing them in face-to-face or virtual meetings, and finally prioritizing them) with the aim of defining and making a decision on a specific topic.
Examples of participatory processes are: a process of electing committee members (where candidatures are first presented, then debated and finally a candidacy is chosen), participatory budgets (where proposals are made, valued economically, and voted on with the money available), a strategic planning process, the collaborative drafting of a regulation or norm, the design of an urban space or the production of a public policy plan.
A really important concept for making good use of Decidim is to understand the relationship between Phases and Components in a participatory process in Decidim:
What this diagram is showing is that for a participatory process you can have 7 phases:
Inside of every one of these Phases, there are some components (like Blog, Meetings, Survey, Debates, Proposals, Results). Some of these Components allow some features depending on the Phase that we are.
In this section, we’ll explain how we can configure a Participatory Process in Decidim.
To configure participatory processes on the Decidim platform, click on btn:[Processes] in the admin sidebar menu. A list will appear with the existing processes if there are any:
You can filter by the ones that are:
