{"id":28,"date":"2017-06-07T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2017-06-13T12:49:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:49:25","slug":"impact-summary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/impact-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The ultimate beneficiaries of our research are poor urban residents in Bangladesh and Tanzania. This includes the current poor urban population and the tens of millions who will move to urban areas in the next few decades. We will co-produce knowledge about how their wellbeing strategies are linked to accessing services from urban green and water ecosystems, and the ways in which policies and institutions support or hinder such strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> We intend this to open up the political space for the ideas and preferences of the urban poor, encouraging them to form, participate in and consolidate collective action. Our involvement with grassroots organisations such as Nagar Daridra Basteebashir Unnayan Sangstha (NDBUS) in Dhaka and Shack\/Slum Dwellers International in Dar es Salaam will be an important component of our impact strategy. The process of co-producing knowledge through interactions between scientists and community-based experts will create a platform for dialogue for poor people\u2019s expertise to inform the knowledge community. This will put research into use, not least by empowering our community-based experts as agents for change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> We are also targeting the professions in Bangladesh and Tanzania. Through our activities with trainee researchers at partner universities and the involvement of think-tank and NGO case workers\/municipal community officers, civil servants and members of civil society, we will raise awareness among professionals of the need to optimise poor people\u2019s access to ecosystem services, minimise potential disservices and engage with urban residents.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> We will also target policy-making elites at three levels:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">At the local level we will engage with municipal civil servants and politicians during our research and invite their participation in local workshops and policy dialogues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Nationally, we will engage at ministerial and advisory levels through our final dissemination conferences, media coverage, and communication of academic and policy findings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Internationally, the dissemination of our findings through a book, high-level papers, conference presentations, BBC World Service broadcasts, press articles, website and social media will seek to influence the country strategies of international agencies in Bangladesh and Tanzania and in turn help shape the debate on sustainability and urban poverty.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> In order to ensure the practical relevance of our proposed project, and to commence engagement with key policymakers, we have already undertaken the following activities with key beneficiaries:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Participatory data collection and analysis methods in both cities;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Feedback sessions at our case study sites;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">City dialogues with academics and policy makers, civil society organisations and representatives of low-income communities;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">and two half-day meetings with Bangladeshi researchers (Dhaka, February 2013) and African researchers (Manchester, March 2013).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> We were able to do these activities thanks to our two existing (and successful) major projects (ClimUrb and CLUVA). ESPA will build directly on these research partnerships and policy uptake relationships. Our proposal is thus already strongly influenced by key beneficiary groups and target audiences. In addition, we will promote South-South collaboration through Bangladesh-Tanzania visits of experts with specialist knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> Finally, we will train 20 promising young Bangladeshi and Tanzanian researchers in our project methodology and engage them to undertake data collection. We will support them on academic writing (directly and through our post-docs) and on working as part of a multidisciplinary team. We will extend our capacity-strengthening support to the organisations providing in-kind support to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> We have allocated just over 10% project costs to fund impact related activities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultimate beneficiaries of our research are poor urban residents in Bangladesh and Tanzania. This includes the current poor urban population and the tens of millions who will move to urban areas in the next few decades. 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