Engineering participation: Preparing and designing a participatory process

Nils Ferrand (1, 2, 3) , Emeline Hassenforder (4, 5, 2) , Sabine Girard (6)

1 STEEP - Sustainability transition, environment, economy and local policy
2 UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages
3 INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
4 INAT - Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie
5 Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
6 UR LESSEM - Laboratoire des EcoSystèmes et des Sociétés en Montagne

In concrete terms, participation engineering involves thinking about the objectives, design, choice of methods, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of a participatory process. Based on their experience and on a methodological tool they have developed, the authors identify four key ideas to keep in mind and six structuring questions to ask to support project leaders in preparing their participatory process.

Keywords: Participatory process; decision-making; stakeholders; participation plan; CoOPLAGE; actors; facilitator; warrant; participatory methods

Domains: Environment and Society

Nils Ferrand, Emeline Hassenforder, Sabine Girard. Engineering participation: Preparing and designing a participatory process. Nils Ferrand; Emeline Hassenforder. Transformative Participation for Socio-Ecological Sustainability - Around the CoOPLAGE pathways, QUAE, pp.109-121, 2024, Update Sciences & technologies, 9782759239214. ⟨hal-04558942⟩