Table 3 Dialogue spaces during the SD process
Participatory space | Description |
|---|---|
Regional Meetings on Health | These meetings were usually organized at the regional level, by invitation and sought ‘societal’ input on specific health topics. Experts put preparatory material together beforehand. Especially civil society opinions and views were sought on precise, more technical questions |
Open mic sessions | These meetings aimed at hearing from all parts of society and touched up more general, overarching health topics such as what the future health system should ideally look like |
Focus groups | They were set up with communities that were not participating in other participatory spaces. Marginalized and vulnerable groups were thus targeted in this small-group, homogenously constituted sessions |
Citizen’s jury | The CJ were drawn on the day of the meeting according to the basis of voluntary presentation to the draw to be part of the CJ representing the region with the task of pronouncing a verdict on specific questions linked to specific themes |
Thematic working groups with targeted consultations with communities and civil society | While thematic groups largely constituted of thematic experts, a concerted effort was made to engage with affected communities and civil society actors to feed into evidence analyses |
National Health Conference | A large participant list including CJ members, associations, NGOs, trade unions, parliamentarians, and many others come together here to validate policies and decisions |