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  • INSPIRED: Where policy meets dialogue
  • Who is this website for?
    • Civil society and domestic stakeholders
    • Development practitioners and EU representatives
    • Government officials
  • Guide
    • What is INSPIRED?
    • Why does INSPIRED make a difference?
      • A three-tier approach
    • How does INSPIRED work in practice?
      • A dialogue process in three phases
        • Collective Assessment Phase
          • The Participatory Policy Analysis (PPA)
        • Consensus Building Phase
          • The Roadmap for Reform
            • Balancing priorities and trade-offs
            • Considering the policy cycle
            • Structure
            • Types of Roadmaps for Reform
            • Unlocking the black box of “political will”
        • Monitoring and Donor Alignment Phase
          • Monitoring the recommendations of the Roadmap for Reforms
          • Ensuring the alignment of donor support to the priorities outlined in the Roadmap
          • The Policy Network Strategy
            • The Joint Analysis of the Policy Network
            • The network graph
            • The exercise of strategic foresight
      • Measuring progress: The Integrated Support Framework (ISF)
    • Who is involved?
      • The Donor(s)
        • Opening the space for dialogue‌
        • Building incentives through conditionality
        • Providing actors with access to decision-makers
        • Promoting the adoption of international standards
        • Bringing in experiences and good practices to feed deliberation
      • The Partner Government
        • Appointing the right person(s)
        • Providing access to government data
        • Coordinating the participation of the concerned public actors
        • Honouring the commitments collectively agreed through dialogue
        • Allocating resources for the implementation of the roadmap
      • The Dialogue Host
        • Convening the key stakeholders
        • Facilitating the dialogue sessions
        • Promoting knowledge-sharing among stakeholders
        • Coordinating the division of labour
        • Acting as the main hub of the resulting policy network
        • Reporting and keeping track of the collective progress
      • The Stakeholders
        • Civil Society Organisations
        • Political parties
        • Public administration
        • Parliaments
        • Media
        • Social agents
        • National Human Rights institutions
        • Academia
        • Democracy support organisations
    • What change can INSPIRED bring?
      • Types of change
      • Harvesting INSPIRED outcomes
  • The INSPIRED Toolkit
    • Results-orientation
    • Three categories
    • The tools
      • 1. Scoping the policy landscape
      • 2. Determining the stage of the policy cycle
      • 3. Stakeholder mapping
      • 4. Set-up and follow-up of indicators
      • 5. Deliberation around evaluative criteria
      • 6. Joint Research
      • 7. Workshops and focus groups
      • 8. Public events & campaigning
      • 9. Bilateral meetings
      • 10. Working groups
      • 11. High-level missions
      • 12. Workshops on multi-party dialogue
      • 13. Study visits
      • 14. Online consultations
      • 15. Grant schemes
      • 16. Training courses
      • 17. Coaching
      • 18. Network mapping
      • 19. International Peer to Peer support
  • Resources
    • Library
      • Policy dialogue: General
      • Policy analysis for dialogue facilitation
      • Dialogue stakeholders
      • Trust-building
      • Policy dialogue in thematic policies
      • EU democracy support
    • Track record
    • Contact us
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Coordinating the division of labour

Any collective endeavour requires a strong coordination effort to align everyone’s contributions and to foster synergies amongst them. This becomes even more important when joint research is being used to develop bonds and mutual understanding, especially when the stakeholders involved in the dialogue process are diverse by definition and come from different organizational and managerial traditions. Public officials do not operate in the same way as social workers, activists or researchers from a think tank, but such diversity of professional backgrounds and capacities, far from being perceived as a drawback, can be turned into an advantage through the development of sound coordination mechanisms.

In many ways, dialogue offers a unique opportunity for participants to step out of their respective mindsets and broaden their views about the societal problem that is being collectively addressed, but they shouldn’t lose sight of the main added value that each of them brings to the deliberations. Their focus on the specific tasks to which they can bring a strong comparative advantage is to be secured through a clear division of labour that, following the INSPIRED philosophy, needs to be agreed upon in a participatory manner.

This is what moved EMC (the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center, INSPIRED’s Dialogue Host in Georgia) to engage human rights-focused civil society organisations, social partners (such as the Georgian Employers Association and the Georgian Trade Union Confederation), academics, political party representatives (including Members of Parliament), government officials and mediators in a joint analysis of the state of the labour mediation mechanism in Georgia. The work dynamics developed among all these actors after a whole year of common research (from March 2018 to April 2019), paved the way for the joint identification of policy recommendations to increase the effectiveness of the labour mediation mechanism that would end up conforming to the INSPIRED Roadmap for Reform.

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Last updated 1 year ago