Criteria for policy effectiveness/success

[Peter Schlesinger <pschles@starband.net>]

Effectiveness of the PIP can be measured by the level of public comment (how many letters, phone calls, emails, and faxes were received, and oral presentations made). If there are checkoff lists which require the involvement of all stakeholder and other interested parties in a region, then those parties ought to have been contacted, and comment or participation received from them. The PIP can be measured in terms of how much education was offered on issues, and how many and what kind of 'students' took part; what was learned. PIP effectiveness can be measured by the existence of feedback to public saying what about and how their input was important.

Public involvement is successful if no interested group in a region is left out of decision-making.