engaging and empowering citizens
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Engaging and empowering citizens
A route to social changefor sustainable development
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Global Action Plan
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We design and deliver effective programs• Empowering individuals• Engaging citizens and employees• Bringing about long-term, sustainable change
WHAT, HOW, WHY
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What?Social change leading toresource savings and social cohesionHow?Scientific, evidence-based designEmpowerment of people and groupsWhy?SDGs, Paris Climate Agreement, more…
WHAT
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Resource savingsTypical measured long-term reductions in use of• Electricity 10 %• Mobility (fuel) 20 %• Water 19 %• Solid waste disposal 50 % …and next, Food
WHAT
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Resource savings
…and next, Food Action, coming in 2017
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Social cohesionCommunity development built on proven principles for stakeholder-driven processes. Examples:• Ballymun, Ireland • Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine• Hanoi, Vietnam
WHAT
WHAT: City example 1
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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
WHAT: City example 2
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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
WHAT: City example 3
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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
HOW
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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
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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
HOW: The science 1
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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
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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
HOW: The science 1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
WHY
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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?
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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
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A global leader in sustainable behaviour change