Participatory Network Analysis and Planning

CoKnow Consulting is offering facilitation and training to build capacity for inter- and transdisciplinary processes, by supporting you and your stakeholders to co-produce knowledge and co-design solutions for sustainability. One tool which has proven to be particularly helpful is the Net-Map tool.
Net-Map is a low-tech, low-cost, interview-based mapping tool that can be used by researchers, facilitators, and implementers to (1) visualize implicit knowledge and understand the interplay of complex formal and informal networks, power relations, and actors’ goals; (2) uncover sources of conflicts as well as potentials for cooperation; (3) facilitate knowledge exchange and learning processes; and (4) develop visions and strategies to achieve common goals.

My name is Jennifer Hauck and with CoKnow Consulting I am offering my over 10 years of experience in building capacity for inter- and transdisciplinary processes. I support you and your stakeholders to co-produce knowledge and co-design solutions for sustainability!

More specifically I support you in overcoming barriers of inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation such as language barriers between different scientific disciplines and between science and practice. I help to explore different worldviews, goals and motivations, integrate different working styles, and planning horizons of all partners involved.

Your benefits will be an easier and less cost intensive organization of processes, minimizing risks of failure to co-produce relevant knowledge and ensure the co-design of useful solutions for sustainability. Of course, the goal of CoKnow is also to develop your capacities to organize inter- and transdisciplinary processes yourself.

Please do not hesitate to get in contact: jennifer.hauck (at) coknow.de

Net-Map is a low-tech, low-cost, interview-based mapping tool that can be used by researchers, facilitators, and implementers to (1) visualize implicit knowledge and understand the interplay of complex formal and informal networks, power relations, and actors’ goals; (2) uncover sources of conflicts as well as potentials for cooperation; (3) facilitate knowledge exchange and learning processes; and (4) develop visions and strategies to achieve common goals.

Hauck, J., Schmidt, J., Werner, A., (2016): Using social network analysis to identify key stakeholders in agricultural biodiversity governance and related land-use decisions at regional and local level. Ecol. Soc. 21 (2), Art. 49

Hauck, J., Stein, C., Schiffer, E., Vandewalle, M., (2015): Seeing the forest and the trees: Facilitating participatory network planning in environmental governance. Glob. Environ. Change 35 , 400 – 410

Schiffer, E., Hauck, J., (2010): Net-Map: collecting social network data and facilitating network learning through participatory influence network mapping. Field Methods 22 (3), 231 – 249

Here are some examples of Net-Map trainings CoKnow is offering:

• Brown-Bag Seminar: Net-Map is introduced to you in 1-1,5 hours and some case studies are shown. Subsequently, we discuss together, how you can use Net-Map in your work.
• Half day training: Net-Map is introduced to you in 1-1,5 hours and some case studies are shown. Subsequently, you learn how to use the Net-Map tool, facilitate Net-Map interviews, develop network maps and interpret them.
• 1-day course: This course is about how to facilitate a Net-Map group discussion for strategic network planning.
• 2-3-days course: Net-Map is introduced to you in 1-1,5 hours and some case studies are shown. Subsequently, you learn how to use the Net-Map tool, facilitate Net-Map interviews, develop network maps and interpret them. Furthermore, you learn some of the most important concepts of social network analysis and we develop your Net-Map pilot study together, including how you enter and analyse quantiative and qualitative network data. 

As a consultancy, CoKnow is offering to conduct complete Net-Map proccesses adapted to your needs.