(2 weeks)
Overview
This unit emphasizes the need to focus on implementation in resilience plans and strategies. This is where the role of the planner and the scholar becomes more active, focusing on assembling, or at least acknowledging, the political, financial, and human resources required to create the outcomes that are desired.
Engagement with stakeholders and partners is an essential part of this process, especially approaches that centre appropriate voices, and that embody co-production. Established and emerging frameworks for action prioritization will be discussed in order to understand the processes by which a long list of potential actions becomes a shorter focused list that can be used to secure resources and take action.
A number of other essential concepts will be explored including policy cycle theories, cost benefit analysis, theory of change, and implementation science. This will include a discussion of change management, and how this approach is, and is not, used in resilience planning efforts in Canada and elsewhere. Emerging approaches like solution spaces and adaptation pathways will also be explored in order to create space for learners to create innovative approaches to resilience planning.
Activities and Assessment
- Complete Unit 4 readings
- Complete Assignment 3, Part 2
- Complete Assignment 4
- Contribute to the MACAL course community by posting questions, comments, and reflections in the course discussion forum.
Unit 4 Activity 1: Complete Required Readings
The readings for this unit focus on creating change, and improving climate resilience. They have been selected to give an overview of the role of the scholars and practitioners in driving the actions outlined in resilience strategies. They also provide insights into the context in which these implementation decisions are made, and in which resilience strategies are produced.
Unit 4 Activity 2: Complete Assignments 3 and 4
Both of these assignments will utilize the knowledge acquired throughout the course regarding making change. Assignment 4 in particular is a targeted presentation to a potential client for a resilience planning process. This will rely on the output from Assignment 3, Part 2 and will require thoughtful translation of this knowledge for a planning audience.