Action plan for changeGenovate Toolkit

WHAT

An action plan helps us go from visions to reality. It describes the way your team will use its knowledge, strategies, and competences to meet the objective of a gender equality and diversity aware innovation system. An action plan consists of a number of short- and long-term actions.

WHY

An action plan shows all stakeholders that you are ready to move from talk to actions. It ensures that no details or stakeholders are overlooked and helps you realize what is possible and what is not without extra resources. It also increases the chances that people do what needs to be done.


Time
X h

People
X persons

Dificulty
2

Phases
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HOW

Prepare
  • Invite people of the innovation system to the action-planning group. This could, for example, be in uential people, stakeholders who are directly involved in the problems, influential people from outside the innovation system, people who are interested in the problems, and newcomers within the innovation system. Make sure your action-planning group is as diverse and inclusive as possible. Your group should mostly consist of the people most affected by the actions and the ones most influential to take action with respect to the problems or issues.
  • Present your findings and understandings from working with the Promoting Sustainable Change Toolkit. Use, for example, the Persona method to ensure that no individual’s issues are identifiable.
  • Discuss actions needed to change identi ed problems or issues in a 1-, 5-, and 10-year perspective. Have the participants write down three actions (1-, 5-, and 10-year perspective) on sticky notes and present their proposed actions. Simultaneously, write down all proposed actions on a whiteboard or large piece of paper.
  • Discuss consequences: What will these actions contribute to? Are they enough to contribute to a re-framing of norms and values?
  • Discuss responsibility: Who will carry them out? Who should be informed to ensure importance?
  • Vote: Which proposals should we act on? Make sure that no stakeholder problem or issue is forgotten.
  • Discuss time: When will each action take place and for how long should each action continue. What should you be able to see as a result?
  • Discuss resources: What are the means to carry out the change to ensure successful actions, including experts who can be invited as project leaders or facilitators.
  • Discuss communication: Who should know what and when?

Afterwards:

  • Review the completed action plan to check for stakeholder problems or issues that are not included. Make sure that this actions plan will complete your mission of gender equality and diversity.
  • Follow through and follow up. Keep everybody informed of status of each action.
  • Celebrate each accomplishment. Celebration keeps everyone excited and interested in the work they are doing.
Reflect
  • How are we doing? Are we doing what we said we would do?
  • Is what we do advancing our mission?

Methods

Gender app

x h xx persons
WHAT

This is a tool for gender mainstreaming collaboratively created by two universities and some industry stakeholders, a gender mainstreaming checklist. The tool is designed to facilitate the integration of a gender and diversity perspective in projects and other activities. The app contains a checklist of practical gender mainstreaming in projects or other activities.

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Gender observations

2 h 1-3 persons
WHAT

Gender observations is a tool to explore and bring to life differences in how women and men act and react in everyday interactions.

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Gender system analysis

2-40 h 1-5 persons
WHAT

Despite a growing awareness of gender inequality there are still obsolete structures and practices within e.g. innovation systems. Acker for this reason proposed analysing gender systems in relation to structures, interactions, symbols, and identities.

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Value exercises

WHAT

Value exercise is a tool that encourages a discussion about your values, your team’s values, your organization’s values, and society’s values. The exercises can be a good way to begin a seminar or session, as an “ice breaker”, and as a way to stimulate new thinking. It can be varied in a number of ways, depending on issues, what statements are important to explore, and what prior knowledge and understanding participants have.

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World café

3-4 h 6-xx persons
WHAT

World café is a tool that invites stakeholders and other interested parties to explore questions and issues.

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Critical Incident Technique

2-4 h 1-7 persons
WHAT

Developed by Flanagan in 1954, the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) is originally a technique for collecting observations on human behaviour to identify a particular event that somehow has been critical, either positively or negatively. The technique can be used in interviews, in focus groups, or in workshop settings within a work group.

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Personas

2-40 h 2-7 persons
WHAT

Personas are fictional descriptions of a person whose goals, feelings, perceptions, experiences, etc. are relevant to the work group it is designed for. It is a commonly implemented design method to make the design team emphasize user experiences.

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Action plan for change

X h X persons
WHAT

An action plan helps us go from visions to reality. It describes the way your team will use its knowledge, strategies, and competences to meet the objective of a gender equality and diversity aware innovation system. An action plan consists of a number of short- and long-term actions.

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