Additional Resources and Reading

Below you can find a list of the sources used to put together this toolkit. Follow the links for further reading on Participation.

• Milner, James, ‘The Politics and Practice of Refugee Participation in the Governance of the Global Refugee Regime’ Paper presented to the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, June 2021 (https://carleton.ca/lerrn/wp-content/uploads/Milner-CPSA-paper-refugee-participation-May-2021.pdf - last accessed on 27/06/2022) 
• IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation (https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.iap2.org/resource/resmgr/pillars/Spectrum_8.5x11_Print.pdf - last accessed on 27/06/2022). Also relevant is Arnstein’s ladder of participation: Arnstein, Sherry R., ‘A Ladder of Citizen Participation’, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35/4, 1969. 
• The new regional strategy can be found here: https://www.migrationyorkshire.org.uk/news/making-connections-building-resilience (last accessed on 27/06/2022). 
• An example of a pledge can be found here: https://www.globalrefugeenetwork.org/refugee-participation-pledge (last accessed on 27/06/2022) 
• There are numerous online resources that list different participation or engagement methods. Mind has a good resource describing participation methods at various levels: https://www.mind.org.uk/workplace/influence-and-participation-toolkit/how/methods/ (last accessed on 27/06/22). Healthcare Improvement Scotland has an excellent toolkit listing a large number of methods, which are also usefully organised by participation level: https://www.hisengage.scot/equipping-professionals/participation-toolkit/ (last accessed on 27/06/2022). Another very useful resource listing a wide range of participation methods (or ‘tools’) is the Participation Toolkit produced by the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA) in 2013:  https://www.feantsa.org/download/participation_toolkit_english_final_2013-2-17759063145615739680.pdf (last accessed on 27/06/2022). 
• For example, in Yorkshire and Humber, Solace, an organisation that provides psychotherapy and support for survivors of persecution and exile, also delivers training (including e-learning) on trauma and the mental health needs of refugees and asylum seekers: https://www.solace-uk.org.uk/training (last accessed on 27/06/2022). 
• Useful guidance on paid participation can be found in ‘Paying people with lived experience for their participation: a review of legislation, literature, and practice’, published by the Scottish Human Rights Commission in 2021 (https://www.scottishhumanrights.com/media/2251/paid-participation-report-vfinal.pdf - last accessed on 27/06/2022). There is extensive guidance for organisations using research participants, which can be useful for wider participation contexts, including this one by the National Institute for Health and Care Research: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/documents/payment-guidance-for-researchers-and-professionals/27392 (last accessed on 27/06/2022). 
• In their report on co-production, Boyle, Coote, Sherwood and Slay stated that "...the main effect of putting distance between ‘providers’ and ‘users’ and neglecting human capacity is to make people weaker rather than stronger, more isolated and divided from each other, more dependent rather than more resourceful, and more at risk of ill-being and distress”. (‘Right here, right now: Taking co-production into the mainstream’, 2020: https://media.nesta.org.uk/documents/right_here_right_now.pdf - last accessed on 27/06/2022). 
• The FEANTSA toolkit (see note 4 above) has a useful participation self-assessment tool that can be used at any stage of the participation process. It is based a number of ‘service standards’ that can help you identify gaps and necessary improvements, although it is not aimed at monitoring or measuring success of participation activities.