Page 132 - Enabling National Initiatives to Take Democracy Beyond Elections

130 A Project of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) Success What does success look like? Success is sensible, useful and usable input from a diversity of community reflected in the final decision made by government. People from all walks of life tell their wider community how they were able to find common ground in an answer to a difficult question. The ultimate success of a longer deliberation rests on a group of randomly selected everyday citizens standing behind recommendations they wrote themselves. People outside of the process need to see something clearly fair, where someone like them contributed to the decision. It is not dependent on the result. Whatever the participants decide, success is indicated by their ability to articulate, with clarity, the intent in their recommendations and the reasoning behind them.