Scoping Review: Local Decision-Making and Community Wellbeing

We looked at evidence from previously published reviews to assess the strengths and weaknesses in existing knowledge, and identify current gaps in the evidence-base for links between co-production in local decision-making and community wellbeing.

This scoping review set up the parameters for our subsequent systematic review of Joint Decision Making.

The review had three aims:

1. Identify all published reviews of empirical evidence on co-production in local decision-making (interventions and policies) with an impact on community wellbeing.
2. Review publications and identify potential beneficial or adverse impacts of co-production in local decision-making on community wellbeing, including the distribution of impacts within and across population groups (e.g. socioeconomic, age, ethnic, gender, geographic location/place).
3. Highlight gaps in the review-level evidence and make recommendations for a future systematic review.

Download the scoping review for findings and analysis.