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Welcome to the Co-production Knowledge Base! We aim to gather in one place a wealth of useful resources about all aspects of co-production, and signpost to more. We are based in Wales so the policy section is specific to our devolved legislative context, but the rest of the information should be widely relevant regardless of your geographical location. Please use the form in category 14 to let us know of any additional resources to include!
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- 01. What is co-production?
- Co-production: an audio introduction
- The meaning of co-production for health care users and user organizations
- Co production: A manifesto for growing the core economy.
- Right here, right now. Taking co-production into the mainstream.
- Think differently, think flexibly: think co-production!
- What is co-production, why would we do it and how can we implement it?
Understanding the basics of co-production and its application
- 02. Case studies
- Recreation and community projects
- Measuring the Mountain: What really matters in social care to individuals in Wales?
- CitizenPoweredCities: co-producing better public services with citizens (2016)
- 100 stories of co-production: Scottish Co-production Network
- Case study: Lambeth Living Well Network
- Case studies from Vanguard
Documented case studies from Wales and the UK
- 03. Good practice
- Considering power relationships in co-design
- Co-producing the future: in our own words
- Mayday Trust and homelessness: we’re working to fix a broken system
- Good things happening: a collection of articles
- Buurtzorg: revolutionising home care in the Netherlands
- Co-production – Sharing Our Experiences, Reflecting on Our Learning
Stories of good things happening and inspirational items
- 04. Research
- Research – co-creation and co-design in science
- Research – cities and urban design and planning
- Research – older people
- Research – social action and civic engagement
- Research – poverty
- Research – wellbeing and physical activity
Research on co-production and co-produced research
- 05. Commissioning
- Community-led Action Research
- The future of commissioning (and more) from Collaborate
- National Commissioning Board Wales (social care)
- The Preston model
- Report: Funding and Commissioning in Complexity
- Guide to co-production with older people
Applying co-production to commissioning and procurement
- 06. Co-design and co-delivery
- Can we make policymaking more… fun?
- Guide to service user involvement
- New conversations 2: LGA Guide to Engagement
- Paying people who receive benefits – Co-production and participation
- OGP’s Participation and Co-creation Toolkit: from usual suspects to business as usual
- Co-creation: ‘What works here doesn’t work there’ (Wildman, J.M. et al., 2019)
Co-producing in practice at service design and delivery stages
- 07. Evaluation (how to do it)
- Co-production & involvement audit for organisations (online)
- Impact and outcomes reporting
- Evaluation support Scotland
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: “no result”
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code CHJ
- Measuring What Matters online tool result: code EGI
Evaluating co-production and measuring impact
- 08. Evidence (it works!)
- Evidence is power
- Co-production and public service reform
- Research – The role of co-production in quality improvement: a scoping review
- 100 stories of co-production: Scottish Co-production Network
- The many shades of co-produced evidence, Pippa Coutts (Carnegie UK)
- Guide: Evidence for Success
Databank of evidence of the effectiveness of co-production
- 09. Sector specific
- Community Development
- Behaviour change in the Welsh NHS: insights from three programmes
- Health: patient participation
- Housing
- Learning disability
- Health (General)
Collated resources for specific sectors or areas of practice
- 10. Supporting tools
- Top 10 resources on the use of evidence.
- The SUCCESS model
- Psychologically Informed Environments – PIE
- Tools for evaluation
- Tools for communities.
- Reflection questions (by the Satori Lab)
Tools and methods to help you “do” co-production
- 11. Synergies with...
- Open Government
- Public service operating principles
- Trust and therapeutic relationships
- Social entrepreneurship
- Community transport
- Shared decision making (health)
Co-production shares a values-base with these
- 12. Policy context
- Quotes from policy and legislation: 2011 to date
- What Welsh legislation says: a summary
- A Healthier Wales: our Plan for Health and Social Care
- The SSWB Act and the WBFG Act
- Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
- Welsh Government Programme for government (2018) including Prosperity for All: the national strategy
The legislation that sets the co-production tone in Wales
- 13. Building the Network
- CoproNet in a box
- CoproNet: the beginnings
How the Co-production Network for Wales came to be
- 14. Add to the knowledge base
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- Submit a new item
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