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178 A Project of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) Step 3: Bringing in Information 9Information (written) Participants will receive information in two different ways, the first is through written material. You cannot expect everyone in a group to read everything. This is a shared learning exercise where participants will cover what is most interesting to them and share their new-found information with others. You should design exercises around the idea of ‘shared learning’. a. Briefing booklets or information kits The first source of information for participants will be their briefing book or information kit. Whatever form this background material comes in, it will be the primary reference material for most of the process. Participants should be spending some time in the room sharing the learning task by flagging key learnings, the most useful pieces of information (or anything that they want to question) and anything that changes the way they have thought about the problem. Done in small groups, each group reports back to the whole on what was most interesting and also what they doubted or wanted to challenge. b. Wider engagement reports Another source of information will be any other forms of engagement that have been held on this topic. This includes survey results and online feedback.The aim here is to give the group an insight into how the wider community feels while