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Change Management
Change management is recognised as an integral part of implementing LIUDD in practice. It is important to be able to understand the processes of change required. This work area is focused on documenting examples of change in councils in New Zealand with the aim of helping end-users adopt the research findings with the minimum transition costs.
Measuring uptake and outcomes of LIUDD
A key part of the change management process is knowing what changes we desire and checking to see if we are moving towards or away from these. One strand of our working is developing frameworks for evaluating the uptake and outcomes of the adoption of LIUDD strategies. It is in two parts:
- firstly, developing an evaluation of our own research work
- secondly, working with others on ways to evaluate their LIUDD strategies.
Monitoring the effectiveness of policy change and implementation is an integral part of implementing LIUDD in practice. It is important that people changing their plans and practices in order to adopt LIUDD techniques are able to understand the process of setting the new policies they will need. As an integral part of that process, they also need to consider how the effectiveness of that change will be measured: what were the objectives of the change, and how will they know if they are meeting them?
This work area is drawing on best practice and documented examples from New Zealand as well as overseas, with the aim of helping end-users adopt best practice.
Integrated monitoring and programme evaluation
For several years we have been engaged in research and dialogue with practitioners on how to assess how well integrated management approaches produce the anticipated environmental, asset and/or community outcomes we want. This challenge is faced by rural catchment managers as well as policy makers and managers in most sustainable urban and natural resource management issues.
With councils in New Zealand now intensifying their focus on the effectiveness of their policies and plans, a number of our research strands have come together in a series of workshops on integrated monitoring and programme evaluation.
A workshop in Wellington on 17 September follows on from an Auckland workshop in June, with a third proposed for Christchurch later in 2007. The workshops provide a forum for people to progress the debate and the action on integrated monitoring and programme evaluation. Relevant to all people engaged in outcome and policy monitoring as well as capacity-building, they address interagency crossovers such as those between regional and territorial councils and RMA/LGA responsibilities using examples from urban and rural catchment management programmes.
An early outcome has been a resolution to set up an environmental wing of the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association, to help environmental managers build their programme planning and evaluation capacity.
The workshops draw on evaluation research being done in both urban and rural areas through the FRST funded LIUDD, Building Capacity and Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) programmes.
New research
- Managing the transition towards low impact urban design and development: considerations for councils (
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Your views on change
We are interested in your views on:
- what form and content of research outputs would be most useful to you
- how our research can help with internal and inter-agency changes for wider uptake of LIUDD
(e.g. setting up ongoing support, communication and capacity building that enables councillors, council staff, developers, iwi, communities and other stakeholders to help themselves and each other in this process).
Send us an email (contacts below) about your experience with, or thoughts about, managing the changes associated with making the transition to LIUDD.
Recent Publications
Feeney C, Heremaia C. 2009.
Managing natural and physical assessts for intergrated outcomes .
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A paper presented at the May 2009 Stormwater Conference of Water New Zealand in Auckland, New Zealand.
Feeney C, Hermaia C, Scott K. 2009.
Managing natural and physical assets for integrated outcomes.
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Proceedings of NZWWA Conference 2009.
Scott K. 2009.
Talbot Park residents perceptions' of sustainable urban design.
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Landcare Research Report.
Trotman R. 2009.
Valuing learning networks: A review of the Low Impact Urban Design
and Development National Task Force.
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A report prepared for The University of Auckland as part of the Low Impact Urban Design and Development research programme.
Bracey S, Scott K, Simcock R. 2008.
Important lessons applying low-impact urban design: Talbot Park.
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In: Proceedings of NZWWA conference 15-16 May, Royal Lakeside Novotel, Rotorua 2008.
Recent Presentations
Feeney C, Heremaia C, Scott K 2009.
Managing natural and physical assets for integrated outcomes
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Presentation at NZWWA 2009 conference
Heslop V, Puddephatt J 2008.
Low Impact Urban Design & Development: Policy mechanisms to support change
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Presentation to the New Zealand Planning Institute Conference in Greymouth, April 2008.
Feeney C 2007.
The development process: critical path analysis.
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Internal Landcare Research seminar
Feeney C, Greenaway A 2007.
ICMP Policy effectiveness monitoring to meet LGA and RMA requirements
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In: Proceedings of Stormwater 2007:5th South Pacific Stormwater Conference, 16th - 18th May, Auckland
Greenaway A 2007.
Stories of Asia and research for sustainable urban development Auckland, New Zealand
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Second Global Conference on Economic Geography: Beijing 25-28 June 2007
Links
New Zealand
- Change management references – Massey University
- Collaborative learning – Landcare Research
- Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association - Members specialise in evaluating policy effectiveness and stimulating debate and research on evaluation practice and roles, seeking to enhance evaluation capacity within local, Pacific and global evaluation communities
- Invitation to integrated monitoring workshop in Wellington on 17 September, 2007.
- Quality Planning one-stop-shop website for council practitioners and consultants, environmental managers and others involved in resource management practice on monitoring requirements, process, benefits and integration. Administered by MFE.
- Planning Under Cooperative Mandates (PUCM) – website explaining PUCM aims of looking at the quality of preparation and monitoring of outcomes of plans produced under RMA and the factors that influence these.
International
- Change management – paper by Alan Perkins Australia
- Monash University National Urban Water Governance Program: Institutional Development and Organisational Change for Advancing Sustainable Urban Water Futures
- Peter de Jager: a series of on-line articles on managing change: Peter is a keynote speaker, writer and consultant focusing on issues relating to change management and the future.
- UW urbanwater.info Managing the urban water cycle: tools and resources (funded by the NSW Government through the Stormwater Trust as a project of the Hunter Central Coast Regional Environmental Management Strategy, a programme of the Hunter and Central Coast councils, in NSW, Australia. Look for information on ‘organisational change’.
Contacts
 | Alison Greenaway Email  |
Landcare Research | |
Phone: +64 9 574 4100 | |
| Details: Alison Greenaway |
 | Will Allen Email |
Landcare Research | |
Phone: +64 3 321 9999 | |
| Details: Will Allen |
