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Principles of facilitation Principle Behaviour of Facilitators Transparency • We are open to more than one answer – there is no one fixed answer • We share project dilemmas with participants • We won’t speak or comment on decisions we don’t agree with • We ask you to present directly to participants Collaboration • We require all decision makers to be part of the project meetings so that agreed actions and process are not undermined/changed later • We need to collaborate early on the project design Independence • We serve the public good no matter who pays us. We are advocates for the good process – we do not represent the auspicing organisation or their views but represent the process Respectful • We believe the participants are smart and can do this work • We develop a respectful tone in the room that ensure equal voices and evens out the power dynamics Empower • We get the group to do the work (they write their report, we take no notes for them, they cluster their own ideas, they make their own decisions, they write their own recommendation report). 168 A Project of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF)