Page 74 - Enabling National Initiatives to Take Democracy Beyond Elections

What to expect Deliberative processes require a type of “coming to agreement” within a group that can be difficult to picture if you have not seen it before. This graphic is a commonly used explanation of what you can expect over the months of people meeting from Day 1 until they hand you their recommendations. Sam Kaner – Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making It compares what ‘business as usual’ might look like, with what a longer deliberative process and the ‘coming to agreement’ process often looks like. 72 A Project of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF)