URBAN STREAM
REHABILITATION
Social appraisal and
Public
Involvement
The aim of this presentation is to help
you to think about social appraisal and
public involvement:
what it is;
why to do it;
and the choices to make in deciding
how to do it.
Driving forces for rehabilitation:
• amenity value
• social well being
Main objectives:
1. preserving the landscape
2. easy, safe, and affordable public access to
the riverfront. Access by foot, bike, public
transport, or boat available to all.
3. making the river visually accessible as well
as physically accessible
8. Social appraisal and public involvement
Article 14, Water Framework
Directive, 2000
This specifies that Member States shall
encourage the active involvement of all
interested parties in the implementation
of the Directive and development of
river basin management plans.
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Social appraisal and Public Involvement
Contents:
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Legal requirements for public participation
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Stakeholders and Identification of Stakeholders
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Informing stakeholders
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Involving Stakeholders
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Social appraisal and Public Involvement
Legal requirements
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legal requirements for public information and
involvement have been mentioned for almost half of the
projects
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how did project managers deal with this legislation?
Involvement ranges from public information to
comprehensive participation of diverse stakeholder
groups
8. Social appraisal and public involvement
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Social appraisal and Public Involvement
Legal requirements
Legal
Requirements for
Public
Participation
48,00%
Legal
Requirements for
Public
Participation
Exceeded
61,00%
c
Projects with any
Kind of Public
Participation
87,00%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
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Defining a stakeholder
Public participation guidance for the Water
Framework Directive says that stakeholders
are:
• ‘Any person, group or organisation with an
interest or "stake" in an issue, either because
they will be directly affected or because they
may have some influence on its outcome.
• Members of the public who are not yet aware
that they will be affected.’
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Social appraisal and Public Involvement
Listing Stakeholders
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citizen: residents, property owners
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NGOs on national, regional and local level
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commercial associations (Anacostia River
Business Coalition)
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Politicians (Isar)
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Identification of stakeholders (Kaitzbach, Skerne)
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Social appraisal and Public Involvement
Stakeholders
Citizen
Political Groups
87.00%
17.00%
NGO's (Non-Government Organisations)
Commercial Associations or Single Businesses
other Social Groups
65.00%
26.00%
43.00%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100
%
8. Social appraisal and public involvement
What you might want from
stakeholders
What you want
Action
Opinion
Ideas
Information
Understanding
Example
‘Are you interested in helping
with…..’
‘Which option should we go for?’
‘How could we make this area
more attractive?’
‘Where do children play?’
‘Can I explain that....’
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Social appraisal and Public Involvement
Increasing Stakeholders understanding
• increase of social awareness and appraisal
• first step to public participation
• Guided tours
• Information boards onsite
• Exhibitions
• Installations
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Social appraisal and Public Involvement
Methods for increasing
understanding
Paper Related (Brochures, Bil boards,
New spaper/Journals)
World Wide Web
Local TV-Station/Radio
Presentations, Lectures etc.
96.00%
57.00%
43.00%
52.00%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
8. Social appraisal and public involvement
Finding out what
stakeholders think and want
• Prove It! is a ready made social appraisal tool
developed by nef (the new economics
foundation), in the UK.
• This has been tried and tested over several
years.
Prove It! is most relevant to:
• Smaller projects
• Participative projects
• Projects interested in the effect of urban
waterways projects on ‘social capital’.
What is social capital?
In simple terms: “Trust in other
people”.
In more detail: “Networks, norms,
relationships, values and informal
sanctions that shape the quantity
and co-operative quality of a
society’s social interactions.”
Prove It! and evaluation
• Likely also to be used to look back on
and review a project
• Works best for projects where the
desired evaluation is formative (that is,
learning as you go along) rather than
summative (demonstrating impact at
the end of the project).
Prove It! – the options
• Use Prove It! only with the project
participants
• Use Prove It! also with the wider community
• Use Prove It! but adapt it:
 So that you can do a statistical analysis
 To include a wider range of indicators. See
Work Package 10 for some suggestions.
Alternatives to Prove It!
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The Public Participation Guidance for the Water
Framework Directive contains a variety of methods in
annex 1.
Nef publication, ‘Participation Works!’, can be freely
downloaded at:
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_PublicationDet
ail.aspx?PID=16
Appraisal techniques that it includes:
 Community appraisals
 Community indicators
 Participatory appraisal
 Planning for Real
Sources on surveys and statistics
• This is very well covered on the free Research
Aids section of www.surveysystem.com.
• There is additional material in a handbook on
Prove It! which can be downloaded from the
nef website at
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_pu
blicationdetail.aspx?pid=2 This provides more
specialized advice in the urban renewal
context.
Tools in the Prove It! toolkit
• A project Storyboard, for understanding
how a project’s intended activities will lead to
change
• A Survey Questionnaire that can be
completed at the start and end of a project,
both by project participants and by members
of the wider community.
• A Poster Evaluation Session, for people
involved in or affected by the project, so that
they can reflect on the impacts a project has
made and the lessons that have been learnt.
How the tools are presented
• On the website of the UK Countryside Agency
at: http://greenspace.net.countryside.gov.uk
(You will need to register.)
• Through a series of MS Word and Excel
documents combining the materials
(Spreadsheets, Questionnaire, Poster) and
instructions on how best to use them.
• If you have any difficulties, email
[email protected]
What people like about
Prove It!
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Flexibility
Ease of use
Provides a framework and structure
Helps with community participation
Seems to capture the effect of a project on
social capital
• I think it’s fantastic. It assists – it’s not a
burden. It isn’t dry either – it helps you to be
imaginative about the project.
Example from a rowing and
canoeing project in London
One parent commented:
"As part of your involvement with the rowing or
canoeing, have you had conversations with a new
person of....."
Number of resopndents
“The exposure to
different people –
outside of the
community and new
experiences all help to
form well rounded
children and adults of
the future”
14
12
10
A great deal
8
Some
6
No
4
2
0
…a different age ...different ethnic
background
..another
community