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Final Conference SME-city project
December 2014, Bologna
SME-cityShare My European City
Project number: HOME/2011/ISEC/AG/4000002589
A methodological overview
Content
1. Theory of Change: introduction
2. Diversity in SME-city project areas
3. Common indicators for three project areas
4. Results overview
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THEORY OF CHANGE: INTRODUCTION
Part one
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Theory of Change: most common use
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Social change
Planning
ParticipationEvaluation
Also considered as a tool for developing solutions to complex social problems
Why did we choose Theory of Change?
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Later it maps backward to identify
necessary preconditions
Theory of Change firstly defines the objectives
to be achieved
Preconditons :• Actions needed to be taken • Outputs (which may be middle-term goals necessary to be reached)
Objective – goal to achieve
Actions to take
Resources to use
Patricipants to engage
Outcomes and outputs
(middle –term goals)
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What did we want to change?
Decrease in the number
of anti-social
behaviours in public spaces
Raised awarene
ss od sharing
of public spaces
Project activities
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Expected change
Goals/ objective
Activities
Outcomes
Outputs
Indicators
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Why did we choose Theory of Change?
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Applying theory of change also gives an opportunity to evaluate every single stadium of the initiative by verifying if the expected outputs and outcomes have been achieved.
How to use Theory of Change?
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Set of outcomes, identified or planned changes should be put in logical and chronological order to prove why one outcome is a condition for another one.
How did we want to change it?
Decrease in the number of anti-
social behaviours in public spaces
Raised awareness od sharing of public spaces
Wide range of project
activities
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Carefully
precised
Rigorously evaluated
DIVERSITY IN SME-CITY PROJECT AREAS
Part two
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Three cities•Valladolid in Spain•Perugia in Italy•London in United Kingdom
Three main problems•Public drinking in Valladolid•Drug dealing and consumption in Perugia•High level of ASB in night economy areas in London
Three expected changes•New use of urban areas devoted to drinking and ASB in Valladolid•Regaining influence on the way public spaces are used in Perugia•Spaces in Hackney’s night time areas more open and shared in London
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Different problems
Different acitivities
Different experienc
e
Different ideas
Different timing
Sharing ideas
Sharing materials
Sharing opinions
Sharing experience
Sharing knowledge
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COMMON INDICATORS FOR THREE PROJECT AREAS
Part three
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One common expected change
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•Rapid Appraisal•Focus/Discussion GroupsResearch
•Cultural events•Traingins/workshopAction
•Website•Final Conference
Dissemination
PROJECT EVENTS
PATRICIPATION(number, socio-demographical
profile)
ACTION RESULTS (participants’
reactions, opinions, cooperation)
OUTCOMES (material output,
stakeholders’ intiatives)
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RESULTS OVERVIEWPart four
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PARTICIPATION
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PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONNumber of participants in events
Luoghi Comuni – free press distributed in more than 1000 numbersfocus groups organized byThe Editorial Board: 30 participants Festival Strange Events: 60 organisations, 160 persons who helped in the organisation, over 4000 participants Facebook page: over 1000 contacts
Awareness workshops: 240 adolescents. Cultural street activities: around 700 (including organizers and publics)
‘Hackney 1’/‘Mixology’: , around 1000 participants ‘Something Different’ around 1200 participants
PARTICIPATION
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PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONObserved diversity in socio-demographical profile of participants
To be determined Cultural street activities had mainly participation of young people and families with children.
Participants in different age, from diverse backgrounds, with around half the audience reporting they were from black and ethnic backgrounds
ACTION
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PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONParticipants’ reactions observed
Increased participatory attitude was observed during all the three kinds of action
Active participationEnjoymentCommunicative attitudes
Observed active positive behaviour - interaction between family groups from different backgrounds within the play area.Activities allowed people to participate with people they had never met.Very few incidents of anti-social behaviour were observed –a number of street drinkers ultimately got engaged in the event in a positive way.
ACTION
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PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONStakeholders’ initiatives during the events (bottom-up)
The Organisation of Strange events promoted cooperation between stakeholders were in order to be assigned a small fund for the organisation of the event.
Collaboration in the organization of activities. Some of them proposed directly by them and supported by the project (Cantarranas day and collective graffiti, i.e.)
All stakeholders were actively engaged in the activities as a result of using an ‘action research’ model, i.e. they were involved in research, activity design, activity implementation and evaluation
ACTION
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PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONStakeholders’ opinion given during and right after events
Extremely positive feedback, as regard to the fact that people evaluated positively the experiences in relation to Increasing level of discussion and reflection on urban security.
General satisfaction with the events. The collaboration with other groups in has discovered each other. Feeling of vicinity.
Over 50% of audience found the events very interesting, attention grabbing and enjoyable. Over 40% of the audience said the event got them emotionally involved and stimulated them to learn something new. 30% said the event had made them feel a lot more involved in their community and 30% said the event had made them feel very much more involved in their community.
OUTCOMES
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PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONSymptoms of cooperation between different groups observed after events
Co-participation and collaboration to the activities Participation to the Network for Friendly Places
Groups engaged in events are planning of future events.The Municipality is programming more cultural events in the areas in collaboration with some of the groups (neighbour and youth associations, business in the areas, etc.)
New partnerships formed between institutional actors, intermediariesNew training programme developed for intermediaries
OUTCOMES
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PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONStakeholders’ opinion given after
Positive evaluation of Luoghi Comuni in relation to increasing level of discussion and reflection on urban security, responding to problems linked to antisocial behaviours and insecurity, increasing capacity to co-desing the use of public spaces Positive evaluation of Strange Events the events positively in relation to solving problems linked to misuse of public spaces Positive evaluation of Community Gatekeeping in relation to rendering the area more safe, clean, reducing antisocial behaviour, iIncrease cultural initiatives in the area
Public areas can be shared by different groups. They feel safe in the area most of the times.Hope cultural events will continue. They hope (but they do not very sure) ABS will be reducedThis kind of collaboration makes easy to interact with other groups
Over 90% of respondents said that: participating in the events had made them feel part of a community; it felt good to mix with people they wouldn’t normally mix with and share streets and public spaces with other; event showed that public spaces can be shared by more people; said that taking part in the event makes people more tolerant. over 80% said taking part in the events made them more aware of the diversity of the community. All of the respondents said the events had encouraged people to explore new ways of doing things; 85% of respondents said they thought the events were a way of reducing anti-social behaviour.
98% declared they would attend in similar event in the future.