URBAN STREAM REHABILITATION

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URBAN STREAM REHABILITATION
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Social appraisal and Public
Involvement
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• 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 (briefly) how it can be done.

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• Driving forces for rehabilitation
• amenity value
• social well being
• Main objectives
• preserving the landscape
• easy, safe, and affordable public access to the
  riverfront. Access by foot, bike, public
  transport, or boat available to all.
• making the river visually accessible as well as
  physically accessible

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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

• Legal requirements for public participation
• Stakeholders and Identification of Stakeholders
• Informing stakeholders
• Involving Stakeholders

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• Social appraisal and Public Involvement

Legal requirements

• legal requirements for public information and
  involvement have been mentioned for almost half
  of the projects
• how did project managers deal with this
  legislation? Involvement ranges from public
  information to comprehensive participation of
  diverse stakeholder groups

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• Social appraisal and Public Involvement

Legal requirements
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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

• citizen residents, property owners
• NGOs on national, regional and local level
• commercial associations (Anacostia River Business
  Coalition)
• Politicians (Isar)

• Identification of stakeholders (Kaitzbach,
  Skerne)

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• Social appraisal and Public Involvement

Stakeholders
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What you might want from stakeholders

• What you want Example
• Action Are you interested in helping
  
  
• with..
• Opinion Which option should we go for?
• Ideas How could we make this
  area
• more attractive?
• Information Where do children play?
• Understanding Can I explain that....

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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.

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Alternatives to Prove It!

• 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_PublicationDetail.aspx?PID16
• Appraisal techniques that it includes
• Community appraisals
• Community indicators
• Participatory appraisal
• Planning for Real