engaging and empowering citizens

Engaging and empowering citizens

A route to social changefor sustainable development

Global Action Plan International 2015 | globalactionplan.com | secretariat@globalactionplan.com

Global Action Plan

We design and deliver effective programs• Empowering individuals• Engaging citizens and employees• Bringing about long-term, sustainable change

WHAT, HOW, WHY

What?Social change leading toresource savings and social cohesionHow?Scientific, evidence-based designEmpowerment of people and groupsWhy?SDGs, Paris Climate Agreement, more…

Resource savingsTypical measured long-term reductions in use of• Electricity 10 %• Mobility (fuel) 20 %• Water 19 %• Solid waste disposal 50 % …and next, Food

Resource savings

…and next, Food Action, coming in 2017

Social cohesionCommunity development built on proven principles for stakeholder-driven processes. Examples:• Ballymun, Ireland • Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine• Hanoi, Vietnam

WHAT: City example 1

Ballymun, IrelandPossibly this century’s largest slum regeneration project in Europe with a low-income, low-education, high drop-out profile.GAP has supplied methods, materials and staff to engage citizens over more than a decade.=> Result: a vibrant community with the original residents still there, and thriving

Ivano-Frankivsk, UkraineA national school program engaging more than 100,000 pupils and their families in GAP-designed Lessons for Sustainable Development => has led to a ’sustainable’ household and neighbourhood program in cooperation with the social services, city hall, utilities, and local NGOs

Hanoi, VietnamA household ’Green Living’ program => led to ’Green Teams’ in specific neighbourhoods, each with self-defined projects, such as reclaiming a huge river-bank area from crime and pollution for social and urban-agricultural activities

Scientific and evidence-based program design focusing on individual and group empowerment yields long-term results and a high RoI Examples:• Health care employees, UK• Activate, Basque Country, Spain

An action research program starting with a European meeting in 1996* funded by the Swedish EPA

* of researchers & practitioners in EMPOWERMENT

Current state embodied in the book ESD Dialogues, Mehlmann & Pometun, 2013

HOW: The science 1

The action research has resulted inguidelines embodied in educational programs• Empowering writing: online course• Design of effective social change programs:

training program, including data collection• Empowering coaching: training program• On-the-job learning from experience: training

and facilitation

Design of effective social change programsbuilds on an ‘empowerment spiral’ + social diffusion: invite to experiment, engage early adopters, start from participants’ own concerns… and collect data through ‘before&after’ monitoring systems.

HOW: The science 1

On-the-job learning from experienceBeyond SWOT analysis, Learning for Change creates a space to build on strengths: “What are you most proud of?”, and accelerate learning. Taught in more than 40 countries.

HOW: The science 2

Academic research including• Longitudinal study of household behaviour

change, Leiden, Netherlands• Research published by other universities i.a.

in London (UK), Hanoi (Vietnam), Gävle (Sweden)

HOW: The science 2

Longitudinal study , NetherlandsThe Leiden studies of the EcoTeam program, over a period of years, show that• Participating households make many changes to

save resources• The changes are not only sustained but amplified

over time

HOW: The evidence 1

Health care employees, UKA partnership between GAP UK, Barts Health NHS Trust and two businesses to engage employees nation-wide in innovation for more sustainable health care: environmental, social and economicSavings to date: £9.2M and 48,511 tonnes of CO2

HOW: The evidence 2

Activate, Basque Country, Spain73 municipalities, 42 schools engaged, 1,408 households registered. Focus on electricity, with monitored savings High local media impact, important contribution to Local Agenda 213-year budget: only € 189,000

Social sustainability goes mainstream – for instance: • ‘Agenda 21’ becomes Agenda 2030:

SDGs adopted September 2015• Paris Climate Agreement signed 22 April 2016• New national, regional and interregional goals

concerning social, environmental and economic development

WHY work with us?

Based on • 26 years of experience in 25 countries• two decades of action research • research from numerous universities:

GAP has methods and tools to meet the new urban challenges

A global leader in sustainable behaviour change

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