Two-day EuroHealthNet Capacity Building Training on designing inclusive participatory processes (Members only)

Inclusive participatory processes to design and implement initiatives to improve public health and reduce health inequalities

Format and Time 

The training will be organised as two separate online sessions. We encourage members to join for both sessions if possible, as they will build on each other. They will be held one week apart and focus on: 

• Session 1: Overview, good practices, and members’ exchange on Friday 23 September (10:00 – 12:30 CET)  
• Session 2: Building capacity and sharing expertise on Friday 30 September (10:00 – 13:00 CET) 

Register for the capacity building training following this link. 

Background 

There is growing awareness of the importance of participatory processes to help design and implement policies and initiatives. Meaningfully engaging with those impacted by these policies helps to ensure that the measures address real needs, empowers the stakeholders involved and gives them a vested interest in the success of these activities.  

Engaging inclusively across the social gradient is critical to making sure that policies and initiatives are representative of different perspectives and lived realities, and that they appeal to different population groups. Co-creating with communities can for instance help to ensure just green and digital transitions that help reduce rather than widen health inequalities. Such processes are increasingly encouraged within EU research funding programmes. 

The public health sector can make use of participatory processes to foster trust and ensure greater take-up of measures to promote health and reduce inequalities. Such processes can however be complex and resource-intensive to organise and implement, as it may be difficult to recruit and engage representative target populations, and to follow-up on and evaluate outcomes. As a result, the public health sector may not sufficiently or effectively employ participatory processes to advance their objectives. 

EuroHealthNet is organising an online capacity-building training to explore this topic and to help facilitate the design and implementation of inclusive participatory processes at different levels of governance (national/regional/local). The training will focus on inclusive citizen engagement, but also consider how to engage civil society organisations. 

Find the narrative and programme here. 

Register for the capacity building training following this link. 

For more information, send an email to Alba Godfrey at  a.godfrey@eurohealthnet.eu.