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<The Councillor as Guardian of the Environment>

An Essay and Workshop for Local Elected Leaders on Environmental Governance
with Emphasis on Adopting Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs)
- Training for Elected Leadership -

Part II - Workshop on the Councillor as Guardian of the Environment
- WORKSHOP -

WORKSHOP COMPONENTS

13.17 Exercise: RESOURCE NEEDS, OPPORTUNITIES AND INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS

To identify innovative ways to think about the resources needed for the successful adoption and use of environmentally friendly technologies and to recognize institutional barriers to resource mobilization.

Introduce the exercise by telling participants they will be working for approximately one hour in their small groups on two resource-related tasks:

1. The first task is to think of creative ways to invent, shift, purchase, or otherwise acquire needed resource - people, equipment, facilities, finances, information or a combination of these from within the organization or from outside. The context of the task is the resolution or amelioration of the group’s chosen environmental problem through the adoption of a more environmentally sustainable new technology or the discovery of less risk-prone use of an existing technology.
2. The second task is to identify institutional policies, procedures or work practices that could be barriers to the acquisition of these resources and to decide what might be done to alter them in such a way that they are no longer barriers. Suggest that participants refer to the information on institutional barriers compiled during the trainer’s presentation on barriers to resource mobilization.

Advise participants to refer to Exercise 13.3 that describes the nominal group technique (NGT), a good process for completing the two tasks.

When participants understand the two tasks, ask them to begin work in their small groups. Ask each group to complete a worksheet and record the product of its work on sheets of newsprint. After one hour, ask participants to return to the plenary session to report results.

Part I: Creating or Acquiring Needed Resources

Prepare a list below of the resource - people, equipment, materials, information, finances or other resource - which must be acquired separately or in combination from within or outside the organization in order to deal effectively with the environmental problem identified by your group.

Part II: Identifying Barriers to Resource Mobilization

Identify and write in the space below several institutional policies, procedures or work practices which, in your opinion, could be barriers to acquisition of the re-sources listed above. Suggest in the space to the right of each barrier identified what might be done to remove the barrier or prevent its negative effect. Refer to the worksheet compiled during the trainer’s presentation on resource mobilization for assistance in completing this task.

BARRIERS --- ACTIONS TO REMOVE / ALLEVIATE BARRIERS

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• International Year of Forests
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