Use the IAP2 Australasia Methods Matrix tool to find the right tool for your community and stakeholder engagement project.
Voting on a series of options.
A website where content is not owned by a specific person or organisation, but is created, deleted or modified by members of the public.
Large numbers of people who are selected to be representative of the population and be a part of a panel that deliberates on a range of issues over a set period of time. Surveys are distributed during the time to understand community attitudes, feedback, issues and behaviour. Can track changes as well.
Process where the community works with an organisation through its budgeting process.
Citizens edit and shape documents and reports through a series of circulating documents.
A highly-structured method involving a representative jury or panel of non-expert citizens who deliberate during a chaired public hearing held over 2-4 days where they hear evidence from a range of different experts. Jury members decide who to call in as expert witnesses. Participants make recommendations or decisions.
A representative sample of citizens are randomly selected to form a citizen’s jury which deliberates on a problem or opportunity. The jury hears evidence from witnesses, in front of a public gallery, before adjourning to deliberate and make a recommendation or decision.