Localising the Provincial Adaptation Plan

Lecture 04

Consulting divisional secretariats and local government

PublishedReading lectureWritten by Suresh Kumaraswamy

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  1. Block 1 · text

    The divisional secretariat already knows the answer

    Divisional secretariats hold local knowledge no national dataset carries - which roads actually flood, which communities were already relocated once, which measures were tried and abandoned. A localisation exercise that skips this consultation rediscovers, slowly and expensively, what a two-hour meeting would have surfaced.

  2. Block 2 · text

    One good meeting beats five token ones

    Local officials asked to attend a fourth consultation on the same plan in a year give a fourth-rate answer. A single, well-prepared session with clear questions and visible follow-through earns better input than a round of box-ticking visits.

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