Estratègies per al desenvolupament sostenible - Generalitat de ...

Developing a co-ordinated and continuous system of generation of knowledge.This does not involve obtaining information and knowledge on a single occasion,but establishing mechanisms of co-ordinated and continuous generation suchas data centres and analysis capacities, preferably by means of the supportand mobilisation of the set of existing centres.Agreeing criteria on the priorities of analysis. Analysis should not become aforum for interminable debates. Analytical work should be concentrated onwhat matters, on what can be done with current resources and political will.Ensure the objectives of the analysis are clear. Analysis is least effective whereit deals with “themes” or “subjects”. Formulating questions will provide directionto the analysis and developing solutions. For example, “watershed degradation”is a less useful formulation than “what incentives have encouraged watershedconservation? How can we remove perverse incentives to degrade keywatersheds? And who should make the changes?”Agree the types of output from the analysis and who will get them. It isimportant that the analysis should not be a complete surprise once it hasbeen produced, and so stakeholder expectations and political/legal proceduresand implications for conducting the analysis need to be discussed and agreedbeforehand. The hierarchy of possible outputs might first be discussed, to getexpectations right. These may be ranked, from least to most ambitious, as:data, findings (correlating key factors), conclusions (identifying causal links),recommendations and design. For example, will the output be “evidence”,“proposals” for a policy or initiative, or a draft policy or project design itself?4.3. Stakeholder analysis. Stakeholders are those people, groups or institutions whohave specific rights and interests in an issue, and related powers, knowledgeand skills. Stakeholder analysis can help to draw out the interests of stakeholders,identify conflicts of interests, positive and negatives relations between stakeholdersin order to ascertain the potential for collective action.It is important that individuals involved are “representative” of their stakeholder groupor “constituency”. True representation will entail constituency agreement of thatrepresentation. Otherwise, the best that can be achieved is effective “sampling”.Whether representation or sampling is done must be made very clear.143