Work package 2

Embed co-construction in policies and services

Experimenting with and evaluating ways of embedding co-construction in policies and services.

Within this workpackage, the doctoral students will experiment and evaluate ways of embedding co-construction in policies and services in a variety of settings. They will examine the levels of local welfare policies (DC4); social organisations (DC5); social services (DC6) and develops methods for effective dissemination of co-construction strategies at all levels (DC7).

This research conduced by Lisarb Montes d’Oco aims to :

Map and contextualize the multi actor collaboration in recent welfare policies at local level (municipality of Amadora,Portugal) through group interviews;
Analyze to what extent, and how, the different stakeholders engage in the process of co-construction in local policy and social services;
Evaluate the perceived impact of COVID-19 in the experiences of policy co-construction and in the policy learning process in the post-COVID period.

Through this research, Rita Luis will analyse experiences of NGO leaders in co-constructive management with service-users partnership ;

Identify key elements of co-constructive leadership approach and skills needed, based on these experiences;
Identify leadership approaches currently used by NGO leaders in social services
Organize training for NGO leaders on co-constructive leadership concept;
Gather feedback and recommendations from NGO leaders on co-constructive leadership approach versus traditional approaches currently used;
Test minimum 2 cases of change management (in Poland and in Portugal) experimenting chosen aspects of co-constructive management approach and evaluate results (from NGO leaders perspective and service users perspective).

A diverse group of people attending a church service led by a pastor indoors.

As part of this research DC 6 will :

Co-design questionnaires evaluating long-term placements of children: identify themes, and formulate questions with voluntary Social workers, care experienced parents and children
Address the questionnaire to all social workers, parents and children in the in Symepe
Co-evaluate long term placements
Co-construct improved practice at Symepe

Through this research Célia Consolini will:

Identify strategies in co-construction implemented recently in social welfare and develop indicators to measure how these address needs of citizens, practitioners and institutions
Identify gaps and barriers in dissemination of co-construction to other organisations
Create and experiment innovative mechanisms to disseminate effective strategies for co-construction

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Embed co-construction in policies and services

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WP1 – A common understanding of co-construction

WP3 – Include diversity in co-construction

WP4 – Digital tools for participation

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