Nigerian Deliberative Town Halls: In January 2024, IDEA adapted our Deliberative Town Hall Toolkit to a context with lower internet access and varying literacy rates to explore how DTHs could function in a rapidly growing, diverse, and dynamic nation.  

Connecting to Parliament UK: In 2022, IDEA conducted two town halls with multiple Select Committees within the U.K. House of Commons to understand the potential impacts of Deliberative Town Halls in a parliamentary context. The first DTH focused on Northern Ireland and updating the Good Friday Agreement and the second focused on policing reform.  

EUComMeet: This initiative experiments with ways deliberative practices and institutions can be embedded within the European Union framework and how that deliberation can help reduce polarization, strengthen European identity, and narrow the representative gap between policymakers and constituents.  

Deliberating Chile’s Constitutional Convention: In 2023, IDEA partnered with Fundación Piensa to test the Deliberative Town Hall model for the first time in Latin America and as Chile was drafting an entirely new constitution. Over the course of two DTHs, Constitutional Council Members and citizens shared their feelings about two salient issues, pension reform and social rights.  

Global Innovations in Democracy (GID) Parliamentary Exchange: In collaboration with the National Civic League, IDEA leads a global forum that brings legislators, experts, and governmental staff together to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gain public support for public policy.