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Engaging and empowering communities and stakeholders in rural land use and land management in Scotland
Report on how best to assist rural communities to engage with decisions on land use and land management.
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Annex 11 Guidance for good practice engagement
Table 22 describes the key steps in an engagement process suitable for planning land use and land management at area or larger scales. (Local and community scale projects are unlikely to have the resources to deliver a thorough facilitated engagement process, but can be supported to follow these stages through group discussion packs and other materials).
Table 22: Key steps in an engagement process
Stage |
Details |
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1. Scope the context |
This includes finding the following information:
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2. Commission a skilled in-project or third party designer/facilitator |
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3. Systematically identify communities and stakeholders |
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4. Develop an engagement strategy |
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5. Design the core engagement process |
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6. Facilitate |
Use a facilitator with the skills and experience to do a good job. Key attributes are that they:
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7. Monitor and adapt |
Process Monitoring includes:
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8. Embed engagement as business as usual |
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Stage 5 in the table above involves designing the core process to facilitate the shift from positional tactics to cooperative behaviour. This process is illustrated in Figure 6 5 . It shows how a well-structured process first helps participants to share and explore information in order to broaden out perspectives and help people move away from positional argument. Next, participates work together to generate ideas and solutions and explore the pros and cons of each. Finally, the process enables them to narrow options down to ones that are mutually acceptable.
The figure also illustrates that the purpose of the process (to gather information, consult or make decisions) determines how much of this process is completed.
Figure 6: The process of discussion broadening out before narrowing down matched with three levels of influence
Contact
- Clare Magill, socialresearch@gov.scot