While designing actions is obviously central to the process of action-planning, it is crucial not to rush into it.

  • Before defining a detailed list of actions, it is important to develop a shared vision with the stakeholders involved, which will help designing SMART objectives.
  • Once a problem is identified and common objectives have been defined, co-creating solutions is the next step. To do this, a safe space should be created for stakeholders to think outside of the box and come to an agreement about the actions to be implemented.
  • In order to design a coherent and meaningful set of actions, it is then important to check if it answers the objectives and vision previously defined and to make sure it is operational.

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Newspaper of Tomorrow

The Newspaper of Tomorrow tool gives you the opportunity to project into the future to create a shared vision on a certain topic. 

Guide

Performance in Policy-Making

This guide on Performance in Policy-making aims at explaining the intervention logic and the EU results framework to support city practitioners and stakeholders to define...

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Opera

The Opera tool is a co-creation method that combines systematic thinking with a creative process for problem solving.

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Problems and solutions table

The Problems and Solutions Table aims to identify solutions for each defined problem and the resources required for them to be implemented.

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Action Table

The Action Table tool aims at defining activities and outputs to achieve a given objective, it provides an overview of the action planning process.

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From Actions to Impacts Game

The From Actions to Impacts Game is a card game to enable further development of Integrated Action Plans by connecting the general Integrated Action Plans into concrete a...

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Refining an action

The Refining an Action Table helps to develop concrete actions by planning them in details, thinking about activities, timescale, outputs resources and obstacles.

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Four C's

The Four C's Review sheet helps assessing the Coherence, Completeness, Concerns and Continuation of an action plan, in order to make sure that it doesn’t omit any crucial...

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Integration Assessment Grid

The Integration Assessment Grid aims at examining whether a city covers all types of integration and at assessing the extent of potential progress.

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Self-Assessment tool for Integrated Action Plan

The Self-assessment Tool for Integrated Action Plans is a table developed for stakeholder groups to check their own progress with their plans.

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Engaging Stakeholders

Know who your stakeholders are and how to engage and work with them, at each step of the process.
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Sharing knowledge

Capture, reflect on and disseminate the lessons learnt along the process, to make your plan sustainable.
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