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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 participation of the concerned public actors

Although most policies are still conceived in “sectoral” terms and fall under the responsibility of a line Ministry, the level of interconnectedness among the different branches and levels of government has reached a point in which such a vertical or silo approach cannot deliver proper results anymore. The need to promote a whole-of- government approach is still one of the most challenging issues of public policy, as bureaucracies are still organised along rigid hierarchical lines and shared competencies can easily derive into personal rivalries and turf wars.

Once again, policy dialogue brings a soft solution to this long-standing problem, as it broadens the base of stakeholders engaged in devising and implementing policy initiatives and somewhat forces the incumbent officials to step down from their ivory towers to openly discuss the reasons behind their choices. The ensuing exchange of views becomes even more comprehensive when it involves officials from different ministries, as each of them can bring into the discussion their own perspective on the topic at stake and jointly explore ways to overcome their internal constraints.

In INSPIRED Armenia, where the goal was to ensure reflection on reform related to gender equality in the workplace, the project led to overall enhanced coordination of actors working in the field. The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, primarily responsible for Labour Rights in Armenia, got engaged in the project and helped to raise awareness on the Roadmap for Reform up to the different branches of the Government, and managed to change the agenda of the executive branches towards reform. This has been crucial in the project's success, as CSOs opened a direct communication channel with public decision-takers to further monitor the implementation of the Roadmap for Reform, and keep providing inputs in relevant reforms.

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