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The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide Instructions on back WORKSHEET 2 STEPS FOR USING THE SERVICE ISSUES MAP 1. Select the priority service issue to be addressed in the exercise. For example, a priority issue could be “how to provide affordable housing.” 2. Select an appropriately skilled facilitator to guide the exercise. Also identify another person who can take notes on flip charts or chalk boards during the exercise. 3. Convene a group of stakeholders representing the diverse interests shown in the service issues map. The mapping exercise requires one to two hours. 4. Write the priority issue in the center of the Service Issues Map. It is best to phrase the issue as an action objective such as “provision of affordable housing.” 5. Brainstorm on the relationship between the priority issue and the other issues identified on the map. For example, ask “what is the relationship between finance and taxation and the provision of affordable housing?” Repeat this for each of the issue areas, one at a time. In other words, for each of the different issue areas identified on the map, the participants are asked, ”How does this issue area relate to the objective of providing affordable housing?” or “Why would an organization responsible for this issue area have an interest in the objective of providing affordable housing?” The answers—called “connecting issues”—are written in the respective circles. The names of any organizations or individuals who can give further information about these connecting issues are written in the spaces labeled “partners.” These ideas can also be written on the flip charts or boards. (Worksheet 4 is provided to make a list of “partners” to be contacted in the next step of developing an assessment network.) 6. Each time an answer is given in #5 above, a new question is asked: “What further questions need to be answered in order http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/448-2/ (56 of 180)18/10/2010 12:47:23 AM
The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide to understand the connection between the priority issue and the connecting issue that was just identified?” These questions are recorded in the right hand column and are used to guide the research in a networked assessment of the issue or system. 7. Participants are organized into an assessment network consisting of Working Groups that collect information (with or without technical assistance) to answer the questions identified in #6 above. The Working Groups are organized on the basis of connecting issues that need to be better understood, such as “Housing, Land Development, and Transportation” or “Social Support Programs, Recreation, and Health.” Each Working Group collects and analyzes data related to its issue, and identifies the sources of further information, the regularity of data availability, and the gaps in data availability. The Working Groups can also be asked to prepare preliminary assessment reports. 8. After technical research is completed and final Working Group reports are made to the whole group in a future meeting, discussions are facilitated to develop a consensus analysis on the key issues that must be addressed to “provide afford-able housing.” A final system map can also then be created to illustrate the chain of issues that are relevant to the priority issue of concern. This exercise can be organized to either constitute a full assessment procedure or can be used as a preliminary exercise to scope out the key issues and terms of reference for a more formal technical assessment procedure. A completed service issues map can be used by stakeholders throughout the process of issue analysis and action planning. The preliminary map can be prepared based on the issues identified on the Worksheet during the mapping exercise. This map can be upgraded after further technical research on these issues is completed. The map helps stakeholders to remember the different systemic issues that must be considered when preparing action plans. Networked Assessment Networked assessment is an organizational approach used to involve stakeholders in the technical assessment of systemic issues. The networked assessment approach can be used in conjunction with a variety of technical assessment methods and with communities of all development backgrounds. BOX C: Systems Analysis: Technical Methods There are four primary technical methods of systems analysis that are presently applied in local planning. These are: materials flow analysis or “balancing,” carrying capacity analysis, system diagramming, and system modelling. The Helsinki (Fig. 10) and Gothenburg (Case #9) cases are examples of materials flow analysis. They are helpful to quantify the different end uses and waste streams of a resource, and to identify possible ways that a resource could be more efficiently used or recycled within the community. This method focuses heavily upon the biophysical dynamics of a system and often overlooks their relation to social and economic activities. Carrying capacity analysis is used to determine the operating limits of a particular system—be it a natural ecosystem or an infrastructure system—beyond which it is seriously damaged or becomes dysfunctional. This analysis requires separate assessments of the different pressures or “loads” on the system and the possible response to these cumulative pressures. Recently the methodology for “ecological footprinting” has been developed to assess the sustainability of current human activities by estimating a city’s or household’s total appropriation of the Earth’s ecological carrying capacity. The methodology estimates the resource consumption and waste assimilation requirements of a defined human population or economy in terms of a corresponding productive land area. This land area is then compared with the average per capital and area available on the planet in order to evaluate the sustainability of local lifestyles and identify activity areas that require change. System diagramming produces a basic tool for planning: a diagram of the diverse components of a particular system and their interactions. Figure 11 is an example of a system diagram that illustrates the complex impacts resulting from an infrastructure project. System modelling represents the next level of complexity in systems analysis. Building from a system diagram and information from carrying capacity and materials flow analysis, a model attempts to indicate the causal relationships between the components of http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/448-2/ (57 of 180)18/10/2010 12:47:23 AM
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