B.

PEOPLES CONTRIBUTION TO DEVELOPMENT

People being involve at the center of decision making so that: We need to think about participation in decision making in a number
 Their voices directly affect decisions about their lives of different places:
 People in professional roles understand hoe their actions impact on  Peoples own lives-overall hopes and day to day decisions(personal
peoples lives context)
 Services and communities work in ways that reflect what people say  Organizational decision making -including about a persons own
they want and need-not what others think they need. service and support (service context)
 Major strategic decision-making at regional or national level (policy
People have more control over their lives context)
Other Words:  What happens in a persons own community-beyond the boundaries
 Power  Being listened to of service land (community context)
 Control  Being heard A QUICK WORDS ON PEOPLES INVOLMENT IN THE DECISION MAKING:
 Influence  Being included
 Rights  Being a partner If services are not supporting people to be participating members of their
 Respect  Being a citizen local communities,then what sort of life are people being supported to
 Co-production  Being a person achieve? Services need to think of strategies to:
 Promote social and community inclusion
What authority do we give to peoples voices?
 Use tools like community mapping
 Information- we tell people what is happening
 Support people to be community members not tourists
 Communication-we tell people what we are doing might change
 Support activities that promote real relationships eg.paid work
things if they make a really good case
 Evaluate services by whether they promote inclusion
 Consultation-we discuss what we intend doing,but at the end of the
Person Centered Planning
day we have the right to decide what happens
 People working out their own vision for their lives
 Negotiation- both parties must be happy with the end position
 A set of hopes and aims that informs services assessments
 Handling over control
 A living process that changes as peoples lives change
 Support plans that then describe how this will be made to happen

C. PEOPLES INVOLVEMENT IN THE DECISION MAKING REGARDING

DECIDING TOGETHERS SIX BUILDING BLOCKS ORGANISATIONAL
THE NATURE AND PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT
PARTICIPATION
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 1. Leadership that leads by example, builds committed teams and engaged.
aloows time for change to happen 2. People feel safe up and are listened to: agree how to support each
2. Communication, listening to people, improving staff other in making decisions.
communication skills, esp. For those who don’t use words. 3. We work on the issues that are important to people: work together
3. Changing organizational practice, nothing about us without us, to agree the issues.
do meetings differently, employ people. 4. It is clear how decisions are made agree what it is you want to be
4. Work with advocacy groups, as partner, with everyone having different and what success looks like.
access to advocacy (in all its form) 5. People’s skills and experiences are used to achieve changed:
5. Empower staff, because disempowered staff will not empower the Identify who has what skills and how to use them.
people they support. 6. Meetings, materials and venues are accessible: these are different
6. Partnership working, think whole-life, multi-agency partnership ways to be involved and be heard.
include people themselves. 7. Process is evaluated by looking at the changes in people’s lives.
Co-production Take action - just do it!
- is a practice in the delivery of public services in which citizens are “Don’t wait until you’re ready to co-produce, just make a start”
involved in the creation of public policies and services. Co-production - pro’s and con’s
- it is contrasted with a transaction based method of service delivery in Potential Benefits; Potential Challenges;
 Value for money  People will often need support
which citizens consume public services which are conceived of and provided
 Additional expertise to co-produce
by governments.
 Health benefits and  Those with the power will feel
The concept of co-production;
prevention challenged or threatened
 People are recognized as experts in setting their own support needs
 Practical skills  It needs sustained support and
and those of their peers.
 Social capital independence
 People have things to contribute to planning and decision making
about their lives. Proper managing and unity in achieving long term goals.
 People are involved from the outset in a partnership around decision  There must be a firmness of decision making by the leader or head then
making. able to foresee and control themselves in all the possible risk by active
 These ideas are built into the whole organizational and planning and unceasing collaboration of each people in a certain organization to
system. attain the balance between the implemented choice and possible risk on
it.
 Maximizing choice and control, whilst effectively managing.
SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF COPRODUCTION:
1. People are involved throughout; think about who needs to be
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