Reshaping Democracy for 21st Century Citizenship | Recommendation
To reshape democracy and democratise active citizenship, we should facilitate inclusive methods of engaging youth and marginalised communities who face structural barriers to contributing their perspectives, legislating the government’s duty to respond to feedback, and ensuring accountability and measurement of success of the policy-making process.
3.2 To make sure that citizens are
involved in policy making, we urge G7 governments and their partners to legislate a duty to respond mechanism by 2025. Accordingly, policy makers should proactively seek out citizen political participation and react to their proposals, with a particular focus on proposals from youth, marginalised communities, and people remote from civic issues. In the interests of transparency, responses should be accessible and easily comprehensible.
3.1 G7 governments and their partners should create arms-length civil society task forces that will implement tailored communication and engagement tools to increase community participation in policy-making. The task force should be cognisant of local needs, proactively engage all citizens facing barriers to participation, and represent diverse youth and marginalised communities. Governments should finance the accessibility of digital and physical environments and economically enable participation to ensure deliberation processes are inclusive.
3.3 Governments must support the
development and implementation of a unified framework that measures how citizens’ views are translated into policy reform to evaluate the inclusivity of the policy-making process. The evaluation list should be created and reviewed by international stakeholders from academia, government, and citizen groups. Accessibility for all should be facilitated in physical and digital means to ensure best practices can be shared with other communities.
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