You can add the responses to this worksheet individually or as a team. You will receive a copy of your responses so you can work on the mini-project. Please consider that these questions are designed to help you reflect, but the final submission should be a presentation or video explaining the actual strategy.
Just Transition Strategy Mini-Project
What ISSUE, INTEREST, or NEED do you want to address applying the JT principles?
What are the inequities and legacies of oppression you will address?
Which communities or groups are most impacted by environmental and/or climate injustices?
What dominant narratives, mindsets, or myths contribute to the inequities?
What are some other intersecting or compounding factors adding to the inequities?
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What OPPORTUNITIES are there for community members to participate in this? What opportunities already exist to build and strengthen grassroots power?
Just Transition Strategy Mini-Project
What is your VISION: How the community will benefit from this JT strategy?
What are you trying to transform and what will it take to shift power?
What are your general goals and objectives?
Who will participate in this strategy? How will you ensure that community members are an active part of this strategy through meaningful engagement?
Just Transition Strategy Mini-Project
What OPPORTUNITIES are there for community members to participate in this? What opportunities already exist to build and strengthen grassroots power?
Just Transition Strategy Mini-Project
What is your VISION: How the community will benefit from this JT strategy?
What are you trying to transform and what will it take to shift power?
What are your general goals and objectives?
Who will participate in this strategy? How will you ensure that community members are an active part of this strategy through meaningful engagement?
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What COMMUNITY ASSETS can be used to address some of these challenges?
Community assets refer to any skills, resources (cultural, social, economic, political, etc), structures (buildings, parks, places, infrastructure, etc), individuals, organizations, services, knowledges, or histories present in a community that contribute to the wellbeing of the community.
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What strategies do you plan to ORGANIZE and MOBILIZE other people in the community and potential allies?
What other organizations or groups you could COLLABORATE with and in what capacity to make this a reality?
How could these groups continue working to build relationships beyond this project?
What TACTICS could you use to reinforce this collaboration? (PMA processes, transformative training spaces, strategy sessions, joint campaigns, co-created events, etc)
What ideas, narratives, and practices will help move this strategy forward?
How are you planning to work collectively and hold space to reflect on each space of this strategy?
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What CHALLENGES might you face trying to implement this strategy?
Assess your needs: Resources (human, natural, social, cultural, economic, political, etc), training, time, participants, etc
In what ways do you plan to address oppressive power structures and dynamics that are present in your community?
How do you plan to identify and address unconscious biases, habits, and patterns of behavior that limit our communities’ ability to recognize their full power?
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How do you plan to ASSESS the success of this JT strategy? Effective assessment takes into account time, types of engagement, level of participation, types of resources used or created, and other metrics.
How would you know that the strategy is successful?
Is there a process to document the successes?
How will impacts be documented and evaluated?
How will you monitor for unintended consequences?
In what ways will you ensure accountability?
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Now that you have a plan, what do you need to put in motion for this plan to become a reality?