Final Conference SME-city project December 2014, Bologna SME-city Share My European City Project...

Final Conference SME-city project

December 2014, Bologna

SME-cityShare My European City

Project number: HOME/2011/ISEC/AG/4000002589

A methodological overview

Content

1. Theory of Change: introduction

2. Diversity in SME-city project areas

3. Common indicators for three project areas

4. Results overview



THEORY OF CHANGE: INTRODUCTION

Part one



Theory of Change: most common use



Social change

Planning

ParticipationEvaluation

Also considered as a tool for developing solutions to complex social problems

Why did we choose Theory of Change?



Later it maps backward to identify

necessary preconditions

Theory of Change firstly defines the objectives

to be achieved

Preconditons :• Actions needed to be taken • Outputs (which may be middle-term goals necessary to be reached)

Objective – goal to achieve

Actions to take

Resources to use

Patricipants to engage

Outcomes and outputs

(middle –term goals)



What did we want to change?

Decrease in the number

of anti-social

behaviours in public spaces

Raised awarene

ss od sharing

of public spaces

Project activities



Expected change

Goals/ objective

Activities

Outcomes

Outputs

Indicators



Why did we choose Theory of Change?



Applying theory of change also gives an opportunity to evaluate every single stadium of the initiative by verifying if the expected outputs and outcomes have been achieved.

How to use Theory of Change?



Set of outcomes, identified or planned changes should be put in logical and chronological order to prove why one outcome is a condition for another one.

How did we want to change it?

Decrease in the number of anti-

social behaviours in public spaces

Raised awareness od sharing of public spaces

Wide range of project

activities



Carefully

precised

Rigorously evaluated

DIVERSITY IN SME-CITY PROJECT AREAS

Part two





Three cities•Valladolid in Spain•Perugia in Italy•London in United Kingdom

Three main problems•Public drinking in Valladolid•Drug dealing and consumption in Perugia•High level of ASB in night economy areas in London

Three expected changes•New use of urban areas devoted to drinking and ASB in Valladolid•Regaining influence on the way public spaces are used in Perugia•Spaces in Hackney’s night time areas more open and shared in London



Different problems

Different acitivities

Different experienc

e

Different ideas

Different timing

Sharing ideas

Sharing materials

Sharing opinions

Sharing experience

Sharing knowledge



COMMON INDICATORS FOR THREE PROJECT AREAS

Part three



One common expected change





•Rapid Appraisal•Focus/Discussion GroupsResearch

•Cultural events•Traingins/workshopAction

•Website•Final Conference

Dissemination

PROJECT EVENTS

PATRICIPATION(number, socio-demographical

profile)

ACTION RESULTS (participants’

reactions, opinions, cooperation)

OUTCOMES (material output,

stakeholders’ intiatives)



RESULTS OVERVIEWPart four



PARTICIPATION



PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONNumber of participants in events

Luoghi Comuni – free press distributed in more than 1000 numbersfocus groups organized byThe Editorial Board: 30 participants Festival Strange Events: 60 organisations, 160 persons who helped in the organisation, over 4000 participants Facebook page: over 1000 contacts

Awareness workshops: 240 adolescents. Cultural street activities: around 700 (including organizers and publics)

‘Hackney 1’/‘Mixology’: , around 1000 participants ‘Something Different’ around 1200 participants

PARTICIPATION



PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONObserved diversity in socio-demographical profile of participants

To be determined Cultural street activities had mainly participation of young people and families with children.

Participants in different age, from diverse backgrounds, with around half the audience reporting they were from black and ethnic backgrounds

ACTION



PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONParticipants’ reactions observed

Increased participatory attitude was observed during all the three kinds of action

Active participationEnjoymentCommunicative attitudes

Observed active positive behaviour - interaction between family groups from different backgrounds within the play area.Activities allowed people to participate with people they had never met.Very few incidents of anti-social behaviour were observed –a number of street drinkers ultimately got engaged in the event in a positive way.

ACTION



PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONStakeholders’ initiatives during the events (bottom-up)

The Organisation of Strange events promoted cooperation between stakeholders were in order to be assigned a small fund for the organisation of the event.

Collaboration in the organization of activities. Some of them proposed directly by them and supported by the project (Cantarranas day and collective graffiti, i.e.)

All stakeholders were actively engaged in the activities as a result of using an ‘action research’ model, i.e. they were involved in research, activity design, activity implementation and evaluation

ACTION



PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONStakeholders’ opinion given during and right after events

Extremely positive feedback, as regard to the fact that people evaluated positively the experiences in relation to Increasing level of discussion and reflection on urban security.

General satisfaction with the events. The collaboration with other groups in has discovered each other. Feeling of vicinity.

Over 50% of audience found the events very interesting, attention grabbing and enjoyable. Over 40% of the audience said the event got them emotionally involved and stimulated them to learn something new. 30% said the event had made them feel a lot more involved in their community and 30% said the event had made them feel very much more involved in their community.

OUTCOMES



PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONSymptoms of cooperation between different groups observed after events

Co-participation and collaboration to the activities Participation to the Network for Friendly Places

Groups engaged in events are planning of future events.The Municipality is programming more cultural events in the areas in collaboration with some of the groups (neighbour and youth associations, business in the areas, etc.)

New partnerships formed between institutional actors, intermediariesNew training programme developed for intermediaries

OUTCOMES



PERUGIA VALLADOLID LONDONStakeholders’ opinion given after

Positive evaluation of Luoghi Comuni in relation to increasing level of discussion and reflection on urban security, responding to problems linked to antisocial behaviours and insecurity, increasing capacity to co-desing the use of public spaces Positive evaluation of Strange Events the events positively in relation to solving problems linked to misuse of public spaces Positive evaluation of Community Gatekeeping in relation to rendering the area more safe, clean, reducing antisocial behaviour, iIncrease cultural initiatives in the area

Public areas can be shared by different groups. They feel safe in the area most of the times.Hope cultural events will continue. They hope (but they do not very sure) ABS will be reducedThis kind of collaboration makes easy to interact with other groups

Over 90% of respondents said that: participating in the events had made them feel part of a community; it felt good to mix with people they wouldn’t normally mix with and share streets and public spaces with other; event showed that public spaces can be shared by more people; said that taking part in the event makes people more tolerant. over 80% said taking part in the events made them more aware of the diversity of the community. All of the respondents said the events had encouraged people to explore new ways of doing things; 85% of respondents said they thought the events were a way of reducing anti-social behaviour.

98% declared they would attend in similar event in the future.

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