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PREPARATORY DESK RESEARCH
PARTICIPATIVE NETWORKS: ENSIE’s
Approach and Case Studies
Iasi, July 2015
Rationale and backgound
• To create a particular framework in order to establish limits on
PPN models
• Based on the concept of Social Citizenship
• Development of the idea of Democracy from 1960 onwards
• Democracy is participation
• The democratic approach is an exportable model to different
situations
• Specificities of Belgian political and social backgorund
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Assumption
A shared and cooperative decision making process increases the
integration process and enables it to step forward to a deeper
and more inclusive step
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What do people think?
The 2013 Eurobarometer report examines the extent to
which European citizens engage in participatory
democracy and the extent to which they believe that
political decision-making can be influenced through
their own actions and through those of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
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Citizens’ engagement in influencing political
decision making
A third (34%) of respondents say that they have signed a petition in
the last two years.
Other relatively popular forms of engagement are expressing one's
views online (28%), expressing one's views with an elected local
representative (24%), and taking part in a public debate at local or
regional level (18%).
A fifth of respondents (20%) are members of an organization with a
specific economic, social, environmental, cultural or sporting
interest.
The Nordic countries demonstrate a very high level of participation in
NGOs and associations, especially Trade Unions.
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Citizens’ view on CSOs
 Most respondents feel that NGOs can influence local (75%) and
national (70%) decision-making, and to a lesser extent EUlevel decision-making (53%).
 A majority (59%) of people think that NGOs share their
interests and values, while only four out of 10 people (41%)
think European citizens do not need these types of
organizations
At least two-thirds of people in all EU countries believe that
NGOs can influence local decision-making; over half of the
people in all countries take the same view on national
decision-making
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Citizens’ view on CSOs
 Most respondents feel that NGOs can influence local (75%) and
national (70%) decision-making, and to a lesser extent EUlevel decision-making (53%).
 A majority (59%) of people think that NGOs share their
interests and values, while only four out of 10 people (41%)
think European citizens do not need these types of
organizations
At least two-thirds of people in all EU countries believe that
NGOs can influence local decision-making; over half of the
people in all countries take the same view on national
decision-making
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Program of Employment and Social Solidarity
CONCERTES
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platform created in 2006 by three social enterprises
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now it is a well recognized actor representing the interests of social economy
in the Walloon region of Belgium
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LEGAL BASIS: Declaration by the Walloon government on the 5th of February
2009, recognizing Concertes as a representative body of social economy
enterprises at a regional level
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working on the implementation of the recognition and evaluation of social
economy enterprises by gathering inputs and comments from all the
members’ organizations.
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The mission of representing social economy in Wallonia was officially
established with article 3 of the bill on social economy (regional) on the 20th
of November 2008; according to the above-mentioned law on social
economy measures, the government gives to one or more nonprofit
organizations the mission of representing social economy enterprises
towards the national government
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Groupe Terre
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WHAT: giving someone the chance to have a role in society, especially by
helping disadvantaged groups of people or marginalized ones
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HOW: the organization has developed its activities following a strategy based
on a participative approach to management and policy
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VALUES: they lay down in the shared responsibility of workers in the enterprise
where they are employed, thanks to a clear and transparent communication
and an ongoing dialogue based on the principle that everybody is equal inside
the enterprise even with a different function
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PARTICIPATION: participating means having access to the decision making
process and means also being capable to identify where decisions are made
and taken and if they can be debatable or not
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Centre Bruxellois d’Action Sociopolitique
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A nonprofit organization based in Brussels that dates back to 1968 and that
represents a deep insight of how to influence and advocate
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Permanent Working Groups (on the sixth reform of the state legislation, on
social affairs, on health policies)
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‘By sharing information on the latest political decision on a certain topic to
all our members, we often realise that political decision on a certain matter
has an effect also in other areas: our main aim is the one of sharing
information and coordinating the work of the different groups in order to
identify common problems and specific interlocutors’
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CBCS is a francophone organization, its counterpart is the BWR, the
Brussels Geuzondheids Raad, and that the two organizations, at the time
being of this report are not collaborating and have not been so far.
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Questions?
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