Design and facilitate participatory processes, policy forums, or community engagement sessions

Participation is not a checkbox. When done well, it changes what gets decided, who gets heard, and how communities relate to the institutions that affect their lives. I have spent four years designing and facilitating processes where people's voices feed into real decisions — from national youth policymaking campaigns to municipal community forums to multi-stakeholder policy debates.

This service is for local governments, municipalities, NGOs, international organisations, and civil society networks that want to design and run participatory processes that are meaningful, inclusive, and actually connected to decision-making.

What you will get: — Process design tailored to your context, goals, and stakeholders — Facilitation of community sessions, focus groups, consultations, or policy forums — Tools and activities that make participation accessible across different backgrounds and literacy levels — Documentation of outcomes and participant inputs — Recommendations for how findings can feed into decisions or policy

How it works: We start with a conversation about what you are trying to decide, who needs to be in the room, and what meaningful participation looks like in your context. From there, I design the process and facilitate it — online, in-person, or hybrid. I can also support you in communicating outcomes back to participants, which is one of the most overlooked but important parts of any participatory process.

My experience includes co-leading a national participatory policymaking campaign across the 2023 Turkish elections, running policy forums and consultative debates as part of a three-year IPA III-funded project across the Western Balkans and Türkiye, and facilitating the Council of Europe's Digyland game — a tool specifically designed to introduce participatory policymaking to young people.