ОЦІНКА ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ ПРОЦЕСІВ ГРОМАДСЬКОЇ УЧАСТІ

Abstract

The article talks about the tendency of growth of public participation cases in the current social and political conditions of the country's development. The author compares existing approaches to assessing the effectiveness of public participation processes and highlights that the current assessment methodologies focuses only on researches processes, that related to interaction with the state structures and organizations (vertical vector of public participation forms); practically has no methods that are adapted to analyze the effectiveness of horizontal vector of public participation forms; methods that studies the online public participation process are completely absent. The author pays particular attention to the urgent need to find new methods for assessing the success of public participation in the context of a broader understanding of this phenomenon (vertical and horizontal vectors of public participation), taking into account the newest forms of public participation that are implemented using Internet technologies. The author proposes to create a new tool for studying the effectiveness of public participation process on the basis of one of the existing methods. This new tool provides fourteen indicators and thirty two evaluation criteria, that include such categories as: Process Accessibility, Media Participation, Diversity of Views Represented, Influence on Process, Opportunities for Participation, Integration of users' Concerns, Information Exchange, Project Efficiency, Project Acceptability, Mutual Learning, Mutual Respect, Cost Avoidance, Indirect Cost of Time, Indirect Opportunity Costs, Indirect Costs Associated with Authority and Influence, Indirect Costs Associated with Emotional Issues etc.