Awareness Raising
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Best Practice Manual (BPM): Awareness raising Cluster 1,2,& 3 24.02.2019 Project co-funded by the European Union funds (ERDF, IPA) Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 4 2. THE GOALS OF STAKEHOLDERS ENGAGEMENT ......................................................... 4 3. RAISING AWARENESS OF RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS ............................................ 4 3.1. Knowledge transfer ............................................................................................................................................. 4 3.2. Stakeholders workshops ................................................................................................................................ 10 3.3. Field trips ............................................................................................................................................................. 16 3.4. Trainings .............................................................................................................................................................. 21 3.5. Online consultations ........................................................................................................................................ 25 3.6. Mobile groups on the spot .............................................................................................................................. 26 3.7. Distribution of information – website, media, newsletters, etc. ...................................................... 29 2 Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA) Contributors, name and Institution surname Albena Bobeva Executive Forest Agency, Bulgaria Elena Rafailova Executive Forest Agency, Bulgaria István Waltner Herman Ottó Institute Nonprofit Ltd. (HUN) Anna Farkas Herman Ottó Institute Nonprofit Ltd. (HUN) Claudia Plank Agricultural Research and Education Center Raumberg-Gumpenstein Karl Gebhardt Forest Research Institute Baden- Württemberg Elizabeth Gerhardt Austrian Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism Ana Selak Croatian Geological Survey Petrisor Vica Romsilva, Romania Vladimir Konstantinov Executive Forest Agency, Bulgaria Daniel Alexandru National Meteorological Administration, Romania Dr. Elena Mateescu National Meteorological Administration, Romania Andreea Popescu National Meteorological Administration, Romania Beata Balazsi Environmental Protection Agency of Covasna Marius Danila Environmental Protection Agency of Covasna Barbara Čenčur Curk University of Ljubljana Urška Valenčič University of Ljubljana 3 Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA) 1. Introduction This manual is part of DT 222 “Transnational cluster-manual for practitioners” of Work package T2 “Explorative Danube” of the project CAMARO-D. The main aim is to communicate with all relevant target groups and stakeholders and to involve them in the development of the outputs of the project. The manual is directed mainly to local authorities and practitioners in the watershed area and especially at the pilot action sites. Their involvement in awareness raising activities on the spot is of great importance to guarantee the cooperation with the public authorities, research institutions and decision makers on watershed level. 2. The goals of stakeholders engagement Raise awareness of the problems on watershed level Provide stakeholders with relevant knowledge and skills Outlining the methods and approaches used within the Clusters for communication and stakeholders involvement Provide stakeholders with the tools to control and management of the risks Promote and implement measures Distribute “lessons learnt” among other relevant actors or general public 3. Raising awareness of relevant stakeholders Raising awareness among relevant stakeholders is critical for the success of any initiative, as their participation and collaboration will be needed for the development and implementation of related policies and programmes. Stakeholder engagement is an integral part of good practice in modern policy-making, particularly in initiation stages of policy development. Through different ways one of the initial steps in the process of interaction with stakeholders is to provoke them into searching professional advice. During the project implementation, different tools were used to raise awareness in stakeholders and society and to involve them in the implementation of the direct and indirect interventions in the catchment pilot areas. 3.1. Knowledge transfer 3.1.1. Austria Within the Pilot Area “Groundwater field Dietacher Holz” several consultations in smaller as well as bigger groups with the involved water suppliers, municipal decision makers, forest owners and farmers were conducted. With this method the affected stakeholders could be informed very detailed and efficient (e.g. which tree species should be used where?). Within the Gnasbach catchment area mainly soil and water conservation consultants of the Styrian agricultural chamber and affected farmers were involved. The knowledge transfer was conducted in a bidirectional and cooperative manner. 4 Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA) AREC implements manifold knowledge transfer methods: Special trainings and workshops, action days, hands-on activities, excursions, study visits, science days, traineeships for students as well as face-to-face transfer were realised within CAMARO-D project. Additionally different media channels were used for the distribution of know-how and awareness raising according to special topics (e.g. invasive plant species, beaver management, surface runoff according to different land-use types). The knowledge transfer method is selected upon the relevant target group. Our science days and hands-on activities with schools as well as the public workshops about wetland and flood risk management showed that for citizens and students a combination of theory and practice on the spot is very effective. The direct contact (e.g. removal of invasive plant species) is very important and creates a greater connection with the topic. For practitioners trainings are useful, for instance to become acquainted to a new management method. Decision-makers need to be directly involved in the relevant actions (e.g. involvement of representatives from local municipalities to invasive plant species actions, hazard zone mapping, workshops) to get expertise for implementation of guidelines and BPM (e.g. spatial planning and flood risk prevention). 3.1.2. Bulgaria Knowledge transfer workshop for the role of the forest green belt around the village of Eliseina and the role of drinking water protective forests around the drinking water zones was organized to increase the awareness of local services and local population. The importance of the green belt above the village and the possible ways for its improvement and protection were the main points of the discussion and field work. Knowledge transfer action to increase of the preparedness of local society to avoid floods by maintaining the river bed clean from trees, branches and wastes and on how to remove and dispose the septage from the sewage tanks after the floods.was realized in watershed with the participation of local population and mayors of three villages. 5 Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA) Figure 1. Green bel above the village Figure 2. Above the village of Eliseina after intensive rain Monitoring the hydro-meteorological parameters in a torrential basin (Putna tributary – Caciu Barsesti) The National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry (INCDS) “Marin Drăcea” conducted a research of determination of the hydrological and anti-erosion efficiency of forest protection crops on degraded lands. The results obtained are useful for the future development of forestry and especially forestry hydrological research, currently deficient in data on the variation of hydrological parameters in relation to the state of forest protection crops, silvicultural works, stationary conditions, etc. Figure 2. Research areas (1C, 2C) for the study of leakage and erosion in Caciu-Barsesti basin - Pilna area pilot 6 Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA) 3.1.3. Croatia HGI-CGS as PP10 held specific meetings with relevant practitioners and stakeholders within Pilot action Kupa River catchment area, primarily aimed at acquiring information about the area’s status quo and issues it is coping with and measures for their mitigation/prevention (on local and regional level), but also at best practices exchange. Practitioners happily communicated their points of views therefore contributing to the identification of gaps in land use management and water protection at local and/or regional level. Even though direct stakeholder dialogue in form of meetings will yield the most of the required data and stakeholders’ feedback, it should be complemented with other engagement tools like phone calls, emails, questionnaires etc. 3.1.4. Germany The three pillars of the FVA (PP12) are monitoring, research and knowledge transfer, therefore, the FVA has competences in knowledge transfer of research. There are different platforms to convey monitoring and research results to forest users, e.g. there are events such as presentations and seminars on a regular basis, the data from monitoring and research is prepared for the internet (www.waldwissen.net), and there are print media such as the “FVA Einblick” (internal newsletter) and magazines