Get Started: Determine Outcomes and Objectives

 

There are many ways to work through the adaptation planning process. To ensure your local government and community reach all the outcomes you are striving for, be sure that you create objectives to guide you. This should be done with your local committee in collaboration with your partners (such as CBT). It should be done close to the beginning of your project. Ideally, you will have a general idea of the process ahead and have talked to former communities about their process (Kimberley and Elkford). These objectives will become the framework for your work plan.  

 

Questions to help guide this process

 

1. What do you want to acheive at the end of your process? List out all the outputs and outcomes you will work toward.

 Examples include:

  • Adaptation action plan in place (be specific, i.e. a shopping list of actions, prioritized actions, specific theme)
  • Strategies/policies incorporated into the OCP
  • At least 10% of the community at large feels ownership over the action plan
  • A more educated community (at least 10%) with regards to local impacts of climate change and the need for preparedness

 2. What does success mean to you?

 Examples include:

  • A specific plan in place with action items, timelines and commitment from council to implement
  • More engaged community
  • People understand and are more accepting of the wildfire management plan in place

 3. Who needs to be involved in the process for it to be successful for you?

 Examples include:

  • 50% of council
  • Senior managers and mid-level staff
  • Emergency services
  • Chamber of Commerce
  • Opinion leaders in the community
  • Youth
  • Local knowledge holders

 

To ensure everyone developing the objectives clearly understands, be as specific as possible. In addition, at each step, ask:

  • Who will participate?
  • Who will lead?
  • What type of process will be used?
  • What type of outputs will be developed?
  • What forms of education, engagement, communication, monitoring and learning?
  • How much time and how many resources are needed?