Involved Actors & Resources
| Governmental body: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes, explain by filling in the name(s) of the governmental body | Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia Housing Fund |
| 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 | Municipality of Ljubljana, Public Housing Fund of the Municipality of Ljubljana |
| Private for-profit actors: Yes / No | No |
| If yes, explain by using types of private for-profit actors such as public engagement consultants, companies etc. |
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| Private not-for-profit actors: Yes / No | No |
| If yes, explain by using types of private not-for-profit actors such as associations, informal networks etc. |
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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. | Students, Young employed profesionals, Ljubljana |
| Other actors: Yes / No |
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| If yes, explain |
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| Funding/Financial resources for the particular best practice example: | National and EU Projects |
| If yes, specify e.g. amount of funding/year | / |
| and the source(s) of funding (if more sources, please specify) | ACF 2014 - 2021, ESRR, Ministry of Public Administration |
| Participatory process: Yes / No | Yes |
| Deliberative process: Yes / No | Yes |
| Other forms: if yes, specify; |
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| Top-down | No |
| Bottom-up | Yes |
| 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 | No |
| 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)? | 2023: From 14 days to monthly. Depends on activities. |
| External inclusion referring to who is invited or allowed to take part from the invitation = ideal situation | Inhabitants of Ljubljana, especially tennnents, young profesionals, open to all. |
| Internal inclusion referring to the participation of all participants within = real situation |
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| Internal exclusion referring to certain participants who are overly dominant |
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| Vulnerable groups were specified in the designed plan of the best practice: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes: Who in particular, e.g. migrants, people in precarious work-situation etc.? Specify. | Precarious work situation, Young families, migrants, poor. |
| If yes: Special attention towards young people, women, elderly people: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes, specify. | People with limited posibilities to find affordable accomodation in Ljubljana |
| 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. | Migrants, young professionals, tennets |
| If yes: Participation of young people, women, elderly people: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes, specify. | Young people, women, migrants |
| If yes: Did special training and empowerment activities support these groups within the participatory process? | No |
| Means of Information Provided | Multiple |
| 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, Instagram |
| Others (1-2 sentences) |
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| Website and social media postings: Yes / No | Yes |
| Information documents distributed in the post box: yes/no | Yes |
| Information documents distributed on streets and public spaces (during events): Yes / No | Yes |
| Press releases in “traditional” public media (e.g. linear TV, daily newspapers etc.): Yes / No | No |
| Special-target activities (e.g. through gate-openers, community workers etc.): Yes / No | Yes |
| Monitoring |
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| 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? | Yearly |
| 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? | Once every 6 months |
Impact Assessment/Evaluation
| Did an impact assessment (e.g., achievements, challenges) or evaluation (standardized success measurement) take place: Yes / No | Yes |
| If yes: Who evaluates? What? How? At which point of process? | Internal evaluation |
Citizen Empowerment & Representation
| Structured Decision-Making |
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| 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? | Selected ones. |
| 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 | Its an assembly. No veto |
| 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 |
| Tools to Enhance Citizens’ Empowerment |
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| Clear definition and communication of mutual commitments, decision-making roles and any limits on the decisions? Yes / No | Yes |
| Are specific tools available to participants (e.g., regular meetings or trainings, apps)? | Yes |
| If yes: What kind of? | Meetings, asembleys |
| 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)]? | National, local level |
| If yes: For whom in particular (horizontal)? | Students, young professionals, tennets, inhabitants |
| If not: Why not? What results from that (e.g., disconnection etc.) |
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| Involvement and Tasks of Participating Groups | Horizontal non-hierarhical |
| Which groups are involved at which stage of the participatory process? | Architects, urbanists, students, young profesionals |
| What are the tasks of the groups? Describe for each group. | Planning, researching, informing, lobiing, |
| Which groups are underrepresented among the participants? Why? |
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