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Title
Please provide a name for your action learning plan.
Learning to implement environmental public policy
Challenge statement
Challenge type: If you are working on multiple challenges, please indicate if this is your "big bet" or "exploratory" challenge.
Please note: we ask you to only submit a maximum of 3 challenges - 1x Big Bet, 2x Exploratory. Each challenge must be submitted individually.
BIG BET
Challenge statement: What is your challenge? (Please answer in specific terms: "Our challenge is that...”.)
Our challenge is that society and public institutions don't collaborate to increase of resilience to climate change
Background: What is the history of your challenge? What is causing or driving it? Who is involved? How does the current situation look like? What undesired effects does it produce?
The lack of capacity for society and public institutions to collaborate to increase resilience to climate change is a particular expression of the difficulty to act collectively to solve development problems. One of the main drivers is lack of interpersonal trust and lack of trust in public institutions, which hinders dialogue and thus the capacity to work together. Also, there are challenges in the quality of political representation, civil service, and state resources that limit the capacity to reach agreements in general (but particularly to increase resilience to climate change), technical capacity to implement those agreements, or fund those agreements if ever reached. Actors at all levels of society are involved. From the bottom up, some of the most relevant actors involved are: individuals, households, communities, private sector (both formal and informal), civil society organizations, local governments, ministry of environment (MARN), government agency to assess risk (CONRED), government agency for climate (INSIVUMEH), among others.
Quantitative evidence: What (official) data sources do you have on this challenge that better exemplifies the importance and urgency of this frontier challenge? You can add text, a link, or a picture.
LAPOP (2019): 66% of people consider that someone in their immediate family is likely to die o be seriously injured in a natural disaster, such as floods, earthquake or hurricane in the next 25 years. LAPOP (2019): 54% of people consider that people in their communities are not very trustworthy or untrustworthy. LAPOP (2019): There is little trust in public institutions. The public institution with most trust are local governments with 38%. This makes difficult implementing public policy. LAPOP (2019): 88% of people consider that the government should ask indigenous communities before implementing policies; which creates a requirement to collaborate with society. AccLab Guatemala using Census data (2021): 55% of households in rural areas do not have access to trash collection. AccLab Guatemala using Census data (2021): Households without access to trash collection have a 60% probability of also not having running water within the household. INSIVUMEH (2018): after 1990, each year has registered abnormal temperature increases between 0.2 and 1.0 degrees Celsius. The number of cold events is reducing. The number of rain dais are decreasing but with more intensity, increasing floods and decreasing availability of water.
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Qualitative evidence: What weak signals have you recently spotted that characterizes its urgency? Please provide qualitative information that better exemplifies the importance and urgency of this frontier challenge. You can add text, a link, or a picture.
There are increased expressions of anger and protest from society regarding government decisions on the use of natural resources. There is lack of availability of water in some areas of the country. There are new decrees and other public policies in response to climate change being approved and in the making. Implementing environmental policies tends to add costs to local governments and individuals. Implementing environmental policies tends to require changes in culture and practices There are increased efforts in the international community for countries to comply with new regulations
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Value proposition: What added value or unique value proposition is your Accelerator Lab bringing to solving this challenge? Why is it your Lab that needs to work on this challenge and not other actors within UNDP, other stakeholders in the country respectively? Why is it worth investing resources to this challenge?
Colaboración between society and public institutions to increase climate change is a complex problem. It has multiple interrelated causes that change quickly. Therefore, the methodologies of the Accelerator Lab are better equipped than traditional alternatives to learn what can work or not to achieve such collaboration to increase resilience. Also, there is lack of existing knowledge on what works and doesn't, and other actors within UNDP tend to implement projects with a pre-defined understanding of what works. Certainly, the Accelerator Lab would not be able to work alone in this topic, but it's in a better position than other to connect actors that would otherwise not collaborate; such as informal sectors and public institutions.
Short “tweet” summary: We would like to tweet what you are working on, can you summarize your challenge in a maximum of 280 characters?
UNDP Guatemala Accelerator Lab is working on how to improve collaboration between society and public institutions to increase resilience to climate change.
Partners
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
MARN
What sector does our partner belong to?
Government (&related)
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
The Ministry of Environment (MARN) is working with the Accelerator Lab to understand how to implement regulations in response to climate change.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
Waste generators
What sector does our partner belong to?
Civil Society
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
The Accelerator Lab is working with individuals, households, as well as private sector within communities to implement pilot exercises that improve waste management from the source. Among them are informal workers in the waste collection chain.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
Yes
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
Local governments
What sector does our partner belong to?
Government (&related)
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
The Accelerator Lab is working with several local governments (Guatemala, Villa Nueva, Antigua Guatemala, Estanzuela, Pachalum, and others) on how to approach the implementation of environmental public policy.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
No
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
Data generators
What sector does our partner belong to?
Private Sector
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
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Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
Yes
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the Parter:
Volunteer organizations
What sector does our partner belong to?
Civil Society
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
The Accelerator Lab has partner with a network of volunteer organizations to transfer methodologies that allow them to contribute in the implementation of learning cycles by mapping solution, exploring signals of change, and testing solutions in the field.
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
Yes
Learning questions
Learning question: What is your learning question for this challenge? What do you need to know or understand to work on your challenge statement?
Our learning question for this challenge is: how to implement environmental public policy? We need to know and understand the barriers to the implementation of public policy, in particular when they are not popular (there is resistance from people) and transfer costs for its implementation to the regulated subjects (people, local governments, businesses, among others).
To what stage(s) in the learning cycle does your learning question relate?
Sense, Explore, Test, Grow
Usage of methods: Relating to your choice above, how will you use your methods & tools for this learning question? What value do these add in answering your learning question?
Solution mapping will be used to identify ways that have worked to implement environmental public policies that required overcoming resistance and increased costs. Also, co-creation will be used to develop proposals to implement environmental public policies. Sensemaking will be used to understand the information explored. Proof of concept, as well as behavioral insights, will be used to test proposals and other hypothesis on how to implement environmental public policy. And behavioral insights will be used to
Existing data gaps: Relating to your choice above, what existing gaps in data or information do these new sources of data addressing? What value do these add in answering your learning question?
Open data and literature review will address gaps in learning from already existing knowledge. Focus group, surveys, and spatiotemporal data will address gaps regarding the opinions, attitudes, behaviors and location to better understand the implementation of environmental public policy. Social media data will help understand opportunities for narratives to implement environmental public policies. Ethnographic data will help identify what are the barriers to implement environmental public policy and what are some ways to overcome those barriers. Citizen-generated data will complement ethnographic data. And observation will be used to test potential solutions.
Closing
Early leads to grow: Think about the possible grow phase for this challenge - who might benefit from your work on this challenge or who might be the champions in your country that you should inform or collaborate with early on to help you grow this challenge?
This project will benefit public institutions seeking to implement environmental public policy. Also it will benefit local government who need to invest resources in implementing them and manage citizens expectations. It will also help actors in society in looking for ways to voice their needs and increase the benefit of their contributions.
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