Involved Actors & Resources
| Governmental body: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes, explain by filling in the name(s) of the governmental body | Municipality of Parma through Association IBO Italia |
| Other public actors: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes, explain by filling in the name(s) of the public actors and describe which sector and explain their role, briefly | - Education > Public primary and secondary schools: Istituto Comprensivo Micheli and
- Istituto Comprensivo Toscanini. Role: they took part to the participatory process
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| Private for-profit actors: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes, explain by using types of private for-profit actors such as public engagement consultants, companies etc. | Company: Chiesi SPA (pharmaceutical sector) > located in the neighboordhood of the project |
| Private not-for-profit actors: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes, explain by using types of private not-for-profit actors such as associations, informal networks etc. | - Associations
- Informal group of citizens
- Foundation and cooperatives
- Consiglio dei Cittadini Volontari di San Leonardo
- Consiglio dei Cittadini Volontari di Cortile San Martino
- Associazione Amici della Biblioteca di San Leonardo
- Gruppo Scuola Coop. Soc.
- Associazione Medaglie d’Oro Bormioli
- Fondazione Teatrale Lenz
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| Civic actors: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes, explain on the heterogeneity of the participants with respect to gender, age, educational qualification, place of residence etc. | No info about that |
| Other actors: Yes / No | No |
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| Funding/Financial resources for the particular best practice example: | Yes |
| If yes, specify e.g. amount of funding/year | € 15.000 - 2020 |
| and the source(s) of funding (if more sources, please specify) | Regione Emilia-Romagna - Bando Partecipazione 2020 |
| Participatory process: Yes / No | Yes |
| Deliberative process: Yes / No | No |
| Other forms: if yes, specify; | No |
| Top-down | X |
| Bottom-up | No |
| Others: if yes, specify; |
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| Cost reimbursement (e.g., for public transport, compensation of working hours): If yes, describe | No |
| Provision of care services: If yes, describe | No |
| Provision of mediators (e.g., linguistic, cultural): If yes, describe/specify | Yes > surveys distributed in the schools and during events in the park have been translated in two languages |
| Frequency of activities within the best practice: How often and for how long did participants involve in best practice (e.g., in general friendly towards employed people or people with care responsibilities)? | Participants met 7 times, late afternoon for about 2 hours + 5 events in the park |
| External inclusion referring to who is invited or allowed to take part from the invitation = ideal situation | Target group: all individuals interested in giving a new live to the park |
| Internal inclusion referring to the participation of all participants within = real situation | Negotiation table made up by actors indicated above, but during the process citizens joined the table |
| Internal exclusion referring to certain participants who are overly dominant | Association "Amici della biblioteca di san leonardo" composed mainly by citizens reteired with high level of education. This association is very active in the neighborhood |
| Vulnerable groups were specified in the designed plan of the best practice: Yes / No | Yes, included among other categories |
| If yes: Who in particular, e.g. migrants, people in precarious work-situation etc.? Specify. | Elderly people; disabled, women; migrants |
| If yes: Special attention towards young people, women, elderly people: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes, specify. | Young people, since close to the park there's a youth center |
| Did vulnerable groups participate in the best practice: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes: Who in particular, e.g. migrants, people in precarious work-situation etc.? Specify. | Elderly people; young people; citizens with migrant background |
| If yes: Participation of young people, women, elderly people: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes, specify. | Women; elderly people |
| If yes: Did special training and empowerment activities support these groups within the participatory process? | Yes > the process was guided by a facilitator |
| Information documents (e.g., flyer, brochures, invitation letters): Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes: multiple languages available: Yes / No | No |
| If yes: non-technical language used: Yes / No | Yes |
| Social Media (e.g., facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, websites, blog): Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes: please specify | Facebook |
| Others (1-2 sentences) | No |
Ways of Communication
| Website and social media postings: Yes / No | Yes |
| Information documents distributed in the post box: Yes / No | No |
| Information documents distributed on streets and public spaces (during events): Yes / No | No |
| Press releases in “traditional” public media (e.g. linear TV, daily newspapers etc.): Yes / No | Yes |
| Special-target activities (e.g. through gate-openers, community workers etc.): Yes / No | No |
Monitoring
| Monitoring process on the best practice available? Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes: Continuous information on monitoring results provided to the participants: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes: How? How often? | Participants continue to meet in order of following the implemnetation of what decided |
| Integration of participants in the monitoring process? Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes: Did they have the opportunity to suggest changes to the process? Yes / No | Yes |
| Continuous information on monitoring results provided to network partners (public and non-public actors)? | Yes |
| If yes: How? How often? | Depending on needs |
Impact Assessment/Evaluation
| Did an impact assessment (e.g., achievements, challenges) or evaluation (standardized success measurement) take place: Yes / No | No because the the work is not finished yet |
| If yes: Who evaluates? What? How? At which point of process? |
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Citizen Empowerment & Representation
Structured Decision-Making
| Explanation of objectives and methods, at the beginning of the process? Yes / No | Yes |
| Do the participants make final decisions? | Yes |
| If no: Why? Who decides instead? |
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| If yes: What kinds of decisions? | The decision is related to the use of the money for improving the park and for responding to citizens' needs and desires |
| If yes: Is there a veto right by the citizens (i.e. if they are against a specific option this is not implemented?)? Yes / No | No |
| At the end of the participation process: Final document on the decisions that were taken? Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes: publication of this document available? Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes: publication of this document sent to participants and/or affected community? Yes / No | Yes |
| Clear definition and communication of mutual commitments, decision-making roles and any limits on the decisions? Yes / No | Yes. The only limit to the process was given by the budget |
| Are specific tools available to participants (e.g., regular meetings or trainings, apps)? | Yes |
| If yes: What kind of? | Regular meetings during the process |
| If not: Why not? |
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| Integration of empowerment tools in multi-level-governance-system? | Yes |
| If yes: Where [in the sense of at which level in the multilevel-governance (vertical)]? | Involvement of policy makers > they learned from this experience an approach that can be reproduced |
| If yes: For whom in particular (horizontal)? | For citiziens living in other neighbourhood s of the city |
| If not: Why not? What results from that (e.g., disconnection etc.) |
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| Involvement and Tasks of Participating Groups |
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| Which groups are involved at which stage of the participatory process? | All groups described above |
| What are the tasks of the groups? Describe for each group. | Each group took part at the discussions and decisions |
| Which groups are underrepresented among the participants? Why? | Refugees |
