A participatory approach advocates actively involving ‘the public’ in decision-making processes, whereby the relevant‘public’ depends upon the topic being addressed. This publication aims to create a hands-on toolkit for starting up and managing participatory projects. The core of the toolkit incorporates 3 additional in-depth fiches on participatory methods giving a total of 13. This edition includes Deliberative Polling®, 21st Century Town Meeting® and Technology Festival and contains brief overviews of 40 methods and techniques. A chapter with general guidelines for using participatory methods, including a comparative chart of the discussed methods, completes the toolkit. Published in English; the toolkit is also available in hard copy in Dutch and French. For those who are interested by one method, they can download a PDF file which contains that method only. All of the existing PDF files are available on the following websites: www.viwta.be - www.kbs-frb.be.(Original source: http://www.viwta.be/files/30890_ToolkitENGdef.pdf)
