of designing sustainable, inclusive, data- and consensus-driven governance and decision-making processes that will help you increase the quality of life in your communities. Our work is based on state-of-the-art know-how in the field of public participation, civic engagement, urban planning, and data utilization.
The world of participation and community engagement is very complex and we offer our clients services and products that can answer their needs in such a challenging environment. We will help you to design, implement and evaluate your participation projects. Thanks to years of practical experience we can assist you in building internal teams, as well as to train decision makers and project managers. We will also guide you through the Civic/Dem Tech market in order to find the best solution for you.
Participation Factory is a social enterprise that mainstreams participation and data-driven approaches into governance and process design. The core of our work is achieving a better quality of life for all and creating an environment for development through better data and meaningful stakeholder engagement. With more than 200 projects on 4 continents designed, consulted, or managed by our team of experts, we help our clients to set up a process that considers both local context and international best practices tested anywhere from New York City, the US to New Delhi, India.
Our vision is to foster an environment of governance and decision-making based on the inclusion of all parts of the society and comprehensive utilization of data available. We strongly believe that a community that runs on a deep understanding of the needs and preferences of all is the one that will continuously increase the quality of life of its members and will produce the most effective and sustainable solutions to any old and new challenges faced by it.
We have successfully helped 12 districts of Prague create a participation infrastructure, and we are currently working with the Ministry of Interior of Slovakia to establish participation coordinators’ teams in 6 regions of Slovakia. We are also engaged in trans-national projects like the Visegrad Youth Participates that support regional actors in mainstreaming School Participatory Budgeting.
“Thanks to the PF team, we have achieved to build and implement successfully the agenda of participatory planning in our institution. I really enjoy how these experts are practical as well as conceptual in their work.They helped to quickly turn our internal team from absolute novices to experts, who now design and manage robust and complex participatory programs and projects.”
“We have worked with the Participation Factory for the past two years on our program “The Learning Regions”, which has created the first generation of participation coordinators in the five Slovak regional governments. PF are true ambassadors of change, regardless of the type of public administration ecosystem which they enter. Their work is not stereotypical based on copied patterns. On the contrary, they offer new perspectives and optics, practical solutions and a strong leadership which are crucial.”
“Participation Factory is a trusted member of People Powered and an organisation coordinating activities of its Regional Hub for Central Eastern Europe. We have been closely cooperating with them and can attest to their high level of expertise in the field of participation and Civic Tech. Their holistic approach to public participation rests on their ability to thoroughly assess needs of a given community, provide support in creating a participation infrastructure, and pass on their know-how built on years of practical experience from the fieldwork with communities around the world.”
“The PF team has had a crucial role in the development of systematic participation in the city of Prague. We managed to set up the agenda of participation in our district thanks to them as well. I have taken part in a number of their capacity building programs which have always brought very valuable international experiences and good practices.”
“In my opinion there is no other participation expert group in Czechia and Slovakia that would have such a vast experience of working with the public as well as a deep understanding of the public sector’s inner processes.”
