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Identification of priority
aspects (topics) are done through 2 steps:
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Definition of a short
list of priority topics (from the broader arrays of topics, such as economy,
social protection, employment, education, health, environment, agriculture,
governance & corruption, etc) |
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Identification of
concrete discussion topics (specific topics from the short list defined
earlier) |
The preparatory exercise (1st
step) will be to develop a list of topics by spheres based on the existing PREGP
materials including:
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Official PREGP discussion
materials published in October 2001
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Recent materials produced
by the Governmental Sub-commissions and submitted to the Secretariat
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Results of civil society
participatory process including schemes, documents, findings submitted to the
Secretariat by the PRSP Watcher’s Network and the coalition of NGOs
facilitated by the CTC
The second step entails
filtration of topics from the short list based on the following criteria (ranked
by significance):
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Criterion |
Description |
Usage |
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Level of polarity |
Clear cut off between policy options
– the PREGP preparation urges for policy decision (choice between two basic
alternatives) |
Topics with higher level of
polarization of alternatives will be favored |
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Level of abstraction |
Relevance to community concerns,
experience, needs and control, i.e. how close the topic is to community’s
realities |
Topics with lower level of
abstraction (closer to communities) will be favored |
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Technical complexity |
Possibility to be converted
(adapted) into readable and understandable explanatory materials and
questions |
Less technically complex topics will
be favored |
It is expected that
specific topics will be selected from two areas, for instance from social and
economic spheres. Two working groups (WG) will be composed of experts (3-4) to
draw a methodology of and discussion materials for the community meetings as
described in the next section.
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