Guides and Toolboxes

• Public Participation Toolbox - International Association for Public Participation - concise overview of techniques, advantages and disadvantages.
• Public Participation Spectrum - International Association for Public Participation.
• "Strategies for Reconnecting Citizens and Government", MRSC Focus, June 2001 - This MRSC Focus paper summarizes the information and materials on MRSC's Effective Communication/Citizen Involvement web pages.
• Governments are from Saturn...Citizens are from Jupiter: Strategies for Reconnecting Citizens and Government, MRSC, 1998 - Innovative approaches and examples.
• Innovations in Public Involvement for Transportation Planning - prepared by Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 1994 – good overviews of participation techniques, advantages, drawbacks and costs.
• URP Toolbox Alphabetical Tool List, Urban Research Program, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia - profiles 63 types of participatory processes such as citizen juries, deliberative opinion polls, focus groups, and more traditional public meetings.  Includes advantages and disadvantages, appropriate uses and other information.
• Putting the People into Planning: A Primer on Public Participation in Planning, University of Oregon Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management - Although Oregon-oriented, provides useful "how-to" information.
  Creating a Sense of Value: Building Citizen Commitment - Course materials and very useful tips, AWC Workshop PowerPoint presentation by John Daly, March 14, 2001, SeaTac, WA.
• Public Deliberation: A Manager’s Guide to Citizen Engagement, Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer and Lars Hasselblad Torres, IBM Center for the Business of Government, 2006 – New report from the IBM Center for the Business of Government documents a range of tools and techniques to increase two-way communication and citizens’ involvement in communities and government.
• Shaping the Tools of Re-Invention: Good Citizens, Better Communities by Dave Davis, President, Initiatives, Local Government Commission copyright, 2004 – Brief overview of several useful techniques.