This deliverable reports on work undertaken for Task 3.3 of work package 3 of the ACCEPT H2020 project and examines the governance and socio-political contexts that condition and structure current pathways to participation, particularly in terms of citizen energy community (CEC) formation. Applying a multi-level perspective, the authors analysed the barriers and drivers to development at a number of scales including the local/individual, regional, national, and EU levels, outlining how citizens are encouraged to, or indeed dissuaded from, participate in these types of energy transition pathways. From this comparative work, we were able to develop a typology of key drivers and barriers to citizen participation in CECs, many of which are common across member states. This is presented in Tables 1 and 2 below and is discussed in more detail in Section 5 of the report. This typology is now informing ongoing work in work package 3 and is contributing to preparatory work for work package 8.