Using consultative processes

Description

Using consultative processes involves systematically engaging relevant stakeholders in structured dialogue to gather diverse perspectives, build consensus, and inform decision-making. This strategy aims to resolve conflicts, enhance transparency, and ensure that solutions are practical and widely supported. By facilitating open communication and collaborative problem-solving, consultative processes help address misunderstandings, reduce resistance to change, and create more effective, sustainable outcomes for complex issues requiring collective action.

Context

An effective consultative process may be established and implemented with concerned groups of society where formulation and decision-making on all programme components are based on a nationwide consultative process drawing on community meetings, regional workshops and national seminars, as appropriate. This process would be designed to ensure that views of women and men on needs, perspectives and constraints were reflected equally in programme design and that solutions were rooted in specific experience. The poor and underprivileged would be priority groups in this process.