Behaviour change

Community behaviour change essentials: What’s in your toolbox?

The urgency around climate change is palpable in the community however, running successful programs that genuinely engage participants, are cost effective and reduce greenhouse emissions are difficult to initiate and to maintain.

This interactive workshop will present a practitioners point of view on how to work with community members to run successful projects which address everyday behaviour while putting in place the building blocks for resilience to climate change.

MEFL’s community engagement team will detail the different approaches we, and our partners, have used to run programs with the not-so-usual suspects, community leaders and partners, and how to tackle evaluation as part of any good program design. Be the first to hear about the achievements of MEFL’s Zero Carbon Moreland program and learn from the lessons of this flagship community initiative.

Presenters 

To be announced

Course outline

  • Introduction to behaviour change principles in action: the psychology and ethics, the legislative context and the theory
  • Engagement essentials: What’s in your toolbox?
  • Approaches to engagement including community profiling and messaging
  • Delivering programs: 6 case studies including multicultural programs that have worked, programs targeting low income households, bulk buys and community initiatives
  • Evaluation: What we’re measuring, different ways to measure greenhouse gas reductions – what has worked and what has not, the need for continuous, long-term monitoring
  • Pulling it together: funding, project infrastructure, partnerships, scaling up and the bigger policy picture

A detailed course outline will be available in early May.

Recommended for

Ideal for local government environment and education officers, state government program managers, community leaders, environment and social justice organisations.

Course length

Two days

Cost

Please contact us for a quote.


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Last modified on Thursday, 23 February 2012 11:03