Localising the Provincial Adaptation Plan

Lecture 04 of 7

Consulting divisional secretariats and local government

Running a consultation with divisional secretariats and local authorities that produces real local knowledge rather than a signed attendance sheet.

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In this lecture

  • Design a consultation that surfaces local priorities
  • Avoid consultation fatigue
  • Record input in a form planning can use

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.

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.

Materials

Yours to keep, and usable away from the platform.

  • Divisional consultation guidePDF · 780 KB
  • Input recording templateWorksheet · 72 KB

Design prototype - the attachments are placeholders and nothing downloads yet.

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