Community Planning: Finding Innovative Ways Forward

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Community Planning Finding Innovative Ways
Forward
Conceptual Framework
Deborah Peel
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Objectives of the Research Exchange

• To foster mutual learning about processes of
  effective community engagement and planning
• To share hands-on community governance experience
  and to identify models of best practice
• To enhance understanding of community planning
  practice

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Underlying Assumptions
That policy is transferable
That policy learning takes place
That change in community governance is required
Conceptual Framework for the Project
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Learning Across International Boundaries

• Increasingly outward-looking approach to policy
  making
• Seeking out new ideas from abroad
• Comparing/defending existing approaches
• Encouraging professional development

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Learning in an International Context
Scanning
Learning about other countries
Selecting
Understanding
Learning from other countries
Assessing
Recommending
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A Shared Understanding

• What is the context of community planning?
• What are the events that led to community
  planning?
• What are the key elements of community planning?
• How is community planning intended to work?
• How does community planning function?
• What does community planning deliver?
• Is the available information adequate and
  accurate?

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Assessing the Relevance

• A robust assessment as to the similarity of the
  problems which are being addressed, and the
  policy goals being tackled must be understood.
• How does the initiative relate to conditions at
  home?
• Are there any significant features that are
  different?
• What are the likely effects of the differences?
• What modifications might be required for it to
  work at home?

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Moving to Recommendations

• Options from the Research Study Experience
• Reject? Reasons
• Copy? Justify and Reasoning
• Be inspired? Why and how
• Learn Lessons

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Policy Learning Styles
After Rose, 1991
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Sharing ContextsLearning About Other Countries

• Scotland
• Spatiality
• Economics
• Demographics
• Politics
• Governance

• Japan
• Spatiality
• Economics
• Demographics
• Politics
• Governance

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Community Governance in Context

• Background Why, When and How community planning
  came about in Scotland
• Key Actors Who is shaping community planning?
• Three aspects of community planning
• Product What it is
• Process How it is put into effect
• Outcome What it is achieving

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Lessons LearnedLearning from Other Countries

• Understanding (common) problems and issues
• Assessment of policy innovations and solutions
• Process
• Product
• Outcomes
• Recommendations