Synthesis of all Stakeholder Workshops 2

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Workshops at the study sites
3. Results from the single steps
4. Workshop evaluation
   1. Workshop atmosphere and stakeholder participation
   2. Workshop methodology
   3. The WOCAT database
   4. The Facilitator Software
   5. Recommendations from study sites
5. Strengths, weaknesses and challenges
6. Annex 1: List of stakeholder workshop reports
7. Annex 2: Table showing technologies selected in the course of WB3

Recommendations from study sites

• The Portuguese study site team suggests planning a third stakeholder workshop in order to evaluate the implementation of the selected remediation strategy. ( In fact, WB 4 and 5 are currently working on a concrete suggestion to all study sites for such an evaluation workshop with stakeholders.
• In the Portuguese workshop participants got aware of how important teamwork and collaboration among different stakeholders is, in resolving problems. They therefore suggest organising more events and collaboration. ( This is fully in line with the underlying understanding of stakeholder dialogue and collaboration promoted by this specific WB3 approach.
• The Moroccan study site team suggests that decision-making processes as conducted in stakeholder workshop 2 would have more influence on land users and technicians if it were conducted under a government programme. ( In regard to future similar research programmes it would be worthwhile considering a stronger involvement of governmental institutions.
• The Spanish team suggests providing participants with a user friendly version (easy to use version) of the Facilitator software to play around and see the effects different decisions have. ( The authors of the software are currently developing a new and user-friendly on-line version of Facilitator. This revision will include the suggestions provided by WB3 on the basis of the experience from the application in the DESIRE programme.