MENA and Public Consultations
The integration of consultation mechanisms throughout the policymaking process has proved to be a valuable instrument to help strengthen government-citizen interaction and improve the quality of government policies on key development areas by leadi...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/18107984/mena-public-consultations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16114 |
| Summary: | The integration of consultation
mechanisms throughout the policymaking process has proved to
be a valuable instrument to help strengthen
government-citizen interaction and improve the quality of
government policies on key development areas by leading to
better designed development projects, more effective service
delivery, and improvements in the targeting of benefits. By
making preliminary policy analysis available for public
scrutiny, stakeholders are provided with a means to inform
the development of a policy or its implementation.
Consultation also helps regulators to balance opposing
interests and to identify unintended effects while ensuring
transparency to minimize administrative burdens and reduce
corruption and rent-seeking. When successful, public
participation can have a transformative impact by providing
citizens with a platform for active engagement in the
development process, and allows citizens to hold governments
to account and to better influence decisions that affect
their lives. While the benefits of public consultation are
widely recognized, the MENA region still lags in the domain
of public engagement, especially in regards to providing
citizens with mechanisms to engage effectively in the
design, implementation, and evaluation of public policy. |
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