Step 4: Identifying decision-makers
Projects should aim to engage with diverse voices, broadly representative of their community, to take part in consensual participation that has been shaped with communities and is built upon a relationship of trust and power-sharing.
Identifying decision-makers and building in legitimacy
Projects should aim to engage with diverse voices, broadly representative of their community, to take part in consensual participation that has been shaped with communities and is built upon a relationship of trust and power-sharing. Local representative structures (such as land management trusts, community councils, etc.) should be utilised alongside appropriate resourcing for inclusive engagement.
Questions for Projects:
- Who is required to “sign-off” on the decisions being made throughout your project?
- How can communities meaningfully feed into the decision-making process?
- What governance structures appropriate to the community should be in place to ensure communities continue to be or are involved as decision-makers throughout the project’s lifetime?
Resources and case studies:
● Transparency of Ownership and Land Use Decision-Making (SLC)
● Good Stewardship of Land (SLC)
● Land management Memorandum of Understanding between Highlands Rewilding and Tayvallich community
Actions:
