Participatory scenarios development and planning
In the recently published IPBES assessment on scenarios and models, the uses of scenarios for biodiversity and ecosystem services where summarized. They serve for awareness raising and agenda setting, and assist in policy and more broadly decision making design under uncertainty. They can be used to assess consequences of implementing certain pathways and associated measures as well as evaluating them. But there are certain prerequisites for scenarios to be useful. One prerequisite is to ensure that the scenario approach employed is matched carefully to the needs of each particular policy or decision context. This is best achieved, when the scenarios are developed in a participatory manner.
If you are interested in or planning to use participatory scenario development and planning, CoKnow can help you to ensure a successful process together with your stakeholders. Together we can:
• discuss available methods and tools against the background of your knowledge and decision making needs as well as resources available, to answer the question: which method is most useful in your case.
• tailor the most suitable methods to your situation and develop a thorough plan for implementing a participatory scenarios development and planning process that yields most useful outcome to you and your stakeholders.
• implement the process, from identifying and engaging all relevant stakeholders, organize exciting scenario workshops and co-produce results and recommendations.
• evaluate and document the process to ensure outcomes are relevant, credible and legitimate.