evaluating stakeholder engagement: practices in oecd countries, david sousa
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Presentation by David Sousa, Cabinet of the State Secretary for Administrative Modernization, Portugal, at the 6th Expert Meeting on Measuring Regulatory Performance: Evaluating Stakeholder Engagement in Regulatory Policy, Reporting back, Breakout Session 1, The Hague, 16-18 June 2014. Further information is available at http://www.oecd.org/gov/regulatory-policy/TRANSCRIPT
BREAKOUT SESSION 1 EVALUATING STAKEHOLDER
ENGAGEMENT: PRACTICES IN OECD COUNTRIES
Questions
1) What are key good practices in evaluating government systems to engage with stakeholders in the regulatory policy cycle?
2) How can countries assess: – The inclusiveness of consultation?
– The transparency of the consultation process?
– Whether stakeholders’ views are adequately considered and integrated into the decision-making process?
3) What are key challenges in assessing the engagement with stakeholders and how can they be overcome?
Key good practices
• Setting the goals for stakeholder engagement • Clear process requirements • Starting simple, eventually with only one piece of
legislation • Considering adequacy of budget and tools
(efficiency) • Independent evaluating body • Different tools, different evaluation criteria • Lessons from RIA evaluation: in depth case
studies, not perception surveys
How to assess inclusiveness, transparency and adequate consideration of stakeholders’ views?
Inclusiveness: - Complete list of stakeholders upfront (RIA) - Sweden: consulting the list across administration X Mailbox-type consultations preselects biased sample Transparency: - Bottom line of publicity X Openness vs. limited number of stakeholders with valuable information X Disclosing strategic information Consideration: • Evaluating stakeholders’ perception of the process
Key challenges
• Output vs. outcome
• How to isolate effects of public consultation
• “Starting simple vs ambitious approach”
• “Considering adequacy of budget and tools (efficiency)”