Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy
O'connor, ACT
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About Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy
The Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy (CAPaD) is a community based non-profit member run organisation.
Its vision is a democratic Canberra — where citizens trust their elected representatives, hold them accountable, engage in decision-making, and defend what sustains the public interest.
The group is actively working in three domains:
• finding ways to create genuine citizen participation in decision making
• understanding the role of MLAs, the relationship between citizens and their representatives and what a richer notion of accountability might look like
• exploring community level agenda setting and monitoring, to build system and policy literacy and create the basis for government accountability.
We work through Action Groups, by stimulating public discussion and by sharing stories of democratic innovation from around the world. We are gaining traction with other community groups in Canberra, and with the ACT Government, and we want to build on this momentum.