The activities adopted for participation and consultation during the Analysis of Problems and Opportunities, and Objective Setting should continue and will inform:
At this early phase of the process, practitioners must cast the net wide - brainstorming, workshop discussions and other consultation and participation measures are encouraged. This will encourage new potential options to be identified, as well as those which might have been proposed for some time.
Debate and discussion of problems can form a valuable part of the process. It is equally important to involve people in generating, developing and assessing possible solutions. This is undoubtedly more difficult to achieve and may require use of more innovative methods. Provision of information prior to an exercise, for example outlining the problems and suggesting some policy instruments as possible solutions, can be useful in this respect.
