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Re: Ideas for Engagement Questions
2006-10-14 15:22:23 UTC
Brett
I am sure people will send questions so I thought I would mention some of our experience as we do a lot of similar work - trying to draw together different stakeholders with different ideas and directions. We are also contacted by a number of organisations that start the process themselves and get bogged down so ask for help to unravel what they have done to generate meaningful results. So while the questions are important, the final results are more so. We have found that to start with the end in mind can make the development of a survey process much more effective. Things to consider are: * What output would be used by the Councils e.g. a short summary of results, a detailed, integrated analysis or perhaps an agenda of items for discussion at all Council meetings over the next year or other more practical idea. It is worth canvassing their ideas on this first otherwise you may go to a lot of effort for nothing * Will all Councils respond to the questionnaire in the same way ? -ergo will the results be considered valid. Some Councils may delegate a junior officer to respond while others will have a combined council workshop. The results may be substantially different and difficult to analyse. You may need to agree a standard process across all 12 Councils. * How will you analyse the responses? To get quantitative material, questions will require yes, no or a Likert scale or something similar. This may not suit the questions that you need to ask. If you plan to ask qualitative questions, how will you analyse them - e.g. keywords search, if so, do you prompt with keywords beforehand to make the process more valid, or do you leave the process open to see which ideas emerge. * It is worthwhile to test the questionnaire first e.g. with 4 Council representatives in differing situations to make sure that the questions are not perceived as biased, leading or confusing. * What level of detail do you require? You need to have enough to adequately understand the responses but not waste people's time or be swamped with data that takes months to analyse. One specific idea you may wish to consider - we have recently completed a process that encouraged 5 Councils in one region to map their most important resources, current situation and planned priorities in addition to a very simple questionnaire survey. Then the maps were analysed and a series of regional sectoral maps produced with supporting text. While there are always concerns about what is included in priorities from a parochial viewpoint , there was general consensus on the directions.
Good Luck
Dorothy Lucks
Executive Director
Sustainable Development Facilitation
92 Aclare Road Barragup WA 6210
Tel: (08) 9582 9228
Fax: (08) 9582 9226 0413 766 299 -
FW: Liam Smith and Nancy Adams request with respect to behaviour change
2006-09-08 18:06:54 UTC
Very interesting and helpful discussion. I am currently researching attitudes and practices in decision-making in multi-stakeholder processes that aim for more sustainable outcomes. Particularly, how leaders in the decision-making process apply their own attitudes in influencing the decisions regardless of the technical knowledge, views of others, etc. The aim is to see if behaviour in decision-making processes can be changed as this is the crux of improved outcomes. If any one knows of similar research/references related to this specific aspect of behaviour, I would really appreciate it.
Many Thanks
Dorothy Lucks
Executive Director Sustainable Development Facilitation
92 Aclare Road Barragup WA 6210
Tel: (08) 9582 9228
Fax: (08) 9582 9226
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