A presentation on the objectives, processes and steps for constructive engagement made during the G-Watch Constructive Engagement Workshop held on 2-9 April 2011. http://www.g-watch.org/event/g-watch-constructive-engagement-workshop

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Government Watch:
Constructive Engagement
Workshop
04‐05 April 2011
Iloilo City

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What do I want to take home from a
constructive engagement workshop?

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Workshop Objectives
• Explain CE frame: dialogue and problem‐solving
• Identify CE challenges among key stakeholders
• Understand CE approaches and ways of adapting
• Plan concrete actions in strengthening CE

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Day 1 Day 2
Dialogue journey: Strengthening CE in GWatch
Stakeholder
analysis
Q1:
Present
situation
Q2:
Desired
situation
Effective
communication
Q3: Approaches and strategies
Q4:
Actions
Negotiation

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Better protection
of people’s rights
Improved
people’s welfare
Improved public
service delivery
Good governanceGood governance
Social accountabilitySocial accountability
Transparency Participation
Accountability

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Constructive Constructive
engagementengagement
SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Citizen monitoringCitizen monitoring
Gathering
information
Analyzing and
using information
Continuing
dialogue
Collaborative
problem‐solving
PFMPFM

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Constructive Engagement:
process of building a mature relationship
between two naturally opposable parties that
are bound by a given reality

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Constructive Engagement: Characteristics
•• Involves trustInvolves trust‐‐building between citizen groups and building between citizen groups and
government government (build up incentives toward
partnership)
•• It is evidenceIt is evidence‐‐basedbased (uses data and information)
•• It is resultsIt is results‐‐ or solutionor solution‐‐oriented oriented (with concrete
outcomes benefiting the people especially the poor)
•• It is a sustained and sustainable kind of engagement It is a sustained and sustainable kind of engagement
(towards developing mature partnerships)

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Constructive Engagement: Elements
“shared exploration towards greater
understanding, connection, or possibility”
The Co‐Intelligence Institute, 2003
involves creative inquiry,
negotiation and systematic
deliberation on options
towards action

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Collaborative Problem-Solving: Quadrant
tool
Quadrant 1:
Analysing our present situation
What is working?
What is not working?
What are the causes?
Quadrant 2:
Describing our desired situation
What is our preferred
future situation?
Quadrant 3:
Approaches and strategies
What are possible solutions?
Quadrant 4:
Action points or plans
How do we implement our
selected solution?

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Quadrant 1: Exercise
Analysing our current engagement
What is working and we want to continue?
What we want to change or improve?
What is not working and we want to stop?

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Assessment of CE and
CE capacities in Proposed
GWatch sites

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Assessing our Engagement

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Quadrant 2: Exercise
Describing our Desired Engagement
A mind map is a diagram
used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items
linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea,
to organize information

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Better roads,
better lives
Stronger partnership among
stakeholders in the road sector More effective
monitoring of roads
Continuing road
improvement projects
Improved protocols for
constructive engagementEnhanced CE capacities
Enhanced technical
competence of
volunteer monitors
More
accessible
information
on road
projects
Improved
systems
within DPWH
Sustained donor
confidence and support
Positive public
assessment of
road projects

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Sharing of Good Practices in
Constructive Engagement

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Government Watch:
Constructive Engagement
Workshop
04‐05 April 2011
Iloilo City