World Café

Rationale of use

Is seen as a good practice in stakeholder consultations to cross-pollinate ideas and build upon each other's contributions, where diverse perspectives and creative solutions are needed

Functioning

The world café method was used to to structure the discussions around different issues with the involved stakeholders in the consultation process. The world café method is a structured conversational process for knowledge sharing in which groups of people discuss a topic at several small tables (like in a café).

Types of outputs

Written documentation from the meetings

Relevant CAP objective

All

Sources

https://www.fsg.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/World-Cafe-Method_0.pdf
For info on the methodology: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1609406920916976