The TerriStories participatories approach, objectives and outputs

The TerriStories participatory approach, objectives and outputsNumerous participatory approaches make it possible to arrive at an action plan after a few days or even a few hours of workshop.But what is next?How many of these approaches manage to leave afterwards local stakeholders who are able to take it upon themselves to implement in a sustainable way the identified actions?In addition, the next step should mean not only implementing the decisions taken, but also being able to regularly update them, in the light of the results of the first actions, and to gradually enrich them in order to be more effective and adaptative.Within this perspective, the necessary capacities are an issue that are often underestimated: producing an action plan, fine, but do the targeted stakeholders really have the capacity to succeed in implementing it, and updating it when necessary?Such required capacities are of a multiple nature: technical, of course, but also organizational, and even strategic (how to act on the cultural, institutional and socio-political context so that actions and changes in decision processes are accepted, supported, and sustainably integrated?).