Deadline: 7-Feb-22
The Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN) is inviting proposals to evaluate the impact of the Belfast, Edinburgh and Leeds Commissions so far, the role they are playing in the climate activities of their respective cities, and the extent to which they provide a replicable model for place-based climate governance.
The Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN) is an ESRC-supported Network Plus, which brings together the research community and decision makers in the public, private and third sectors.
PCAN builds on the policy connections, networking capacity and research strengths of its host institutions: the London School of Economics and Political Science, Queen’s University Belfast and the Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford and Leeds. A core part of PCAN’s activities are three city-based Climate Commissions in Belfast, Edinburgh and Leeds.
The Leeds Commission pre-dates PCAN and serves as an example for the kind of participatory, place-based climate governance that PCAN studies and supports. The Belfast and Edinburgh Commissions were set up as part of PCAN. All three Commissions are independent, but supported by PCAN.
Scope of Work
The proposed evaluation will provide an early assessment of the PCAN Commissions in Belfast, Edinburgh and Leeds. They are interested principally in their impact on local debates and on climate action in the three cities. This includes insights on:
- where the Commissions sit in the local climate policy landscape (e.g. relative to other institutions) and how they are perceived by stakeholders;
- the specific functions played by the Commissions (e.g. as a knowledge broker, policy innovator, consensus builder, etc.);
- types of capacity building enabled by the Commissions;
- concrete areas of success and how these are evidenced;
- areas of contention /difficulties;
- the ability of the Commissions to facilitate not just dialogue but concrete climate (mitigation and/or adaptation) action;
- how insights from each Commission could help build a replicable model.
Funding Information
The maximum budget available for the study is GBP 28,000, including VAT. Contracting will be with the London School of Economics.
Criteria
- PCAN invites interested consultants to suggest their own preferred method for structuring the evaluation and collecting the relevant information (e.g., interviews, focus groups, surveys, document analysis, etc.).
- The study will be overseen by Candice Howarth (LSE) with support from the PCAN team at LSE (Harriet Carter, Jo Miller), who will arrange regular (e.g. monthly) meetings with the consultants.
- The consultants will work closely with the PCAN teams in Belfast (led by John Barry), Edinburgh (led by Jamie Brogan) and Leeds (led by Andy Gouldson). The local PCAN teams will be available to facilitate access to stakeholders as necessary.
- Guidance and quality assurance will be provided by an advisory group consisting of PCAN Co-Investigators.
For more information, visit PCAN.
For more information, visit https://pcancities.org.uk/evaluation-impact-pcan-supported-climate-commissions
