Climate Change Adaptation Toolkit by TransitionKW
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Finalist Evaluation
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Judges'' comments
Thank you for submitting a final proposal. Please take this opportunity to strongly consider community involvement in assessing risks and choosing tools. The judges would like to see you respond further to the questions and comments that were raised during semi-finalist selection, which could help your work evolve significantly. For ease of reference, the judges’ initial suggestions have been summarized by a contest fellow below:
Suggested improvements summary:
- Develop a concrete focus that lays out a vision for transforming this approach to raising awareness and mobilizing action
o E.g. game-ifying website/toolkit, adding a social media marketing strategy…
o Developing a well-thought-out strategy for engaging people
- Can the toolkit promote collective adaptation efforts?
- Community involvement in assessing climate risks and considering which possible actions would be the most effective ways to enhance resilience and overcome vulnerabilities?
- Think about how communities choose which tool to use and how to mobilize around them?
Congratulations on your proposal, and the adaptation contest team wishes you the best of luck!
Semi-Finalist Evaluation
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Judges'' comments
Thank you for your submission to the Climate CoLab adaptation contest. Looking at the TransitionKW website, it's clear that you have already done a lot of good work collecting information and translating it into workable actions that local residents could take. That said, the specific proposal for this Climate CoLab contest is missing a concrete focus. To be really compelling, you could present something beyond the basic improvements to the website and plans to distribute hard copies of the guide. The judges suggest laying out a vision for how you can totally transform your approach to raising awareness and mobilizing action. More important than focusing on the website is developing a well-thought-out strategy for engaging people. There is a considerable body of research that shows that just giving people better information isn't enough to change their actions. Social pressure and values are much stronger motivators. So, for example, are there ways to game-ify the website/toolkit, or add a social marketing strategy to the proposed outreach (both on-line and physical)? More creative thinking around these issues could yield some interesting results. Additionally, the judges were wondering where the prescriptive ideas in the toolkit came from, as it is a bit surprising that your focus is on actions that people can take individually. Adaptation is often considered a collective challenge, where whole communities need to agree on how to assess risk, how to evaluate possible risk management options and how to make decisions about the trade-offs involved. Can the toolkit also promote collective adaptation efforts, and if so, how? Where are people in the community involved in assessing climate risks, and considering which possible actions (individual and collective) would be the most effective ways to enhance resilience and overcome vulnerabilities to climate risk? There are many toolkits out there, including ones by ICLEI, so please consider why a community should take what is in this particular toolkit seriously and remember that toolkits need to be contextualized locally. Rather than just building more tools and disseminating them, your team can think more about how communities choose which tool to use and how to mobilize people around them. Congratulations on advancing to as a semi-finalist, and the adapation contest team looks forward to seeing your revised proposal for the final submission.
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