Estratègies per al desenvolupament sostenible - Generalitat de ...

Scenario analysis: Developing plausible pictures of the future, as a meansto explore possible strategic options and test their robustness or sensitivity.Analysis and ranking of options: Assessing the costs, benefits and risksof optional instruments or programmes to implement the strategy, to submitto objective decision-making – in this way avoiding biased trade-offs.Decision-making without the advantage of good analysis runs a huge riskof prejudice and misjudgement.Reviewing strategy achievements: Assessing how far sustainabledevelopment outcomes have been achieved and how they can be correlatedwith NSSD processes. Many of these tasks are those of routine monitoringand evaluation.4.2. The following should be considered basic principles common to all types ofanalysis:Committing and informing agents in participatory and democratic processes.Prejudices against information obtained by participatory techniques must beovercome. Analysis and participation are not contradictory. Strategies cannotbe made by experts and bureaucrats. Without participation, necessaryinformation from a very wide range of perspectives cannot be obtained andwill otherwise remain hidden.Making use of participatory and accessible methods of analysis. Participatorymethods and methods of research/action are especially suitable as they allowfor learning by action.Preserving the role of the independent experts. There are circumstances thatlend weight to the involvement of independent experts such as when (1)matters are very contentious or (2) a long, complex analytical task lies aheador (3) equipment or sophisticated technical skills are required. In these events,independent experts should be relatively independent from the political process,they should be deserving of trust and be in contact with all the agents involved,and use a multidisciplinary and holistic approach.142