National Conservation Training Center

OUT8128 - Public Participation and Informed Consent II

Course CodeOUT8128
Course TitlePublic Participation and Informed Consent II
DescriptionThis advanced level management course by Hans and Annemarie Bleiker picks up where the OUT8127 leaves off. Participants will become intimate with the nitty-gritty citizen participation (CP) tools necessary to engineer informed consent by learning how to make meetings, advisory committees, and the media work more effectively for themselves and their projects. Participants will explore a variety CP Techniques including: Making the Most of Existing Mechanisms (instead of doing everything yourself); Fish-Bowl Planning (also called 'Pay-as-You-go' Consent-Building); the Listening Log; the Napoleon's Idiot; and, the art and science of being a Participant Observer. Participants will discover how to assess their project's CP needs by using a check-list of leading questions generated by five Legitimacy Objectives, five Responsiveness Objectives, and five Effectiveness

Pre-requisite: FWS-OUT8127
Objectives:
Describe how to assess your project's Citizen Participation Needs.

Understand how to prioritize CP needs so you do not waste scarce CP resources on trying to fix relatively unimportant needs.

Design a CP program that's tailored to your project's particular high-priority needs.
Target Audience:
Managers and staff involved with endangered species listings, habitat conservation planning, or comprehensive conservation planning or who work with NRDA, NEPA, Superfund, and other potentially controversial legislation, as well as anyone else who deals with public response to a government project (all of us!)
Delivery MethodILT
Instructional Hours21
Credits/CEUs0.0
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Extracted from DOI LEARN on3/9/2013 4:03:17 AM

Schedule:  OUT8128 - Public Participation and Informed Consent II

  

Last Updated: March 9, 2013 04:03 AM
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