Open Government action plan 2021 to 2025 - commitment 4: climate change

Progress to August 2022

Milestone: Establish stakeholder group for co-creation (April 2022)

Update and next steps

• success criteria: Number of stakeholders joining co-creation group (monitored through engagement)
• update: 9 stakeholders across a range of climate and non-climate sectors joined the core co-creation group
• success criteria: Hold information session to inform stakeholders of Open Government Partnership (OGP) process and plans (monitored through session attendance)
• update: Information session held in April with 9 stakeholders attended

Status

Completed.

Milestone: Consultation with stakeholder group (May 2022)

Update and next steps

• success criteria: Number of stakeholders responding to framing questions (monitored through email)
• update: Framing questions were sent out to all stakeholder, 5 stakeholders responded
• success criteria: Sharing of anonymised responses to stakeholder group (monitored through email)
• update: The 5 responses were shared anonymously with the whole group

Status

Completed.

Milestone: Co-draft the network Terms of Reference (June-July 2022).

Update and next steps

• success criteria: Ability of Scottish Government to adopt learning from framing questions into Terms of Reference (monitored by feedback from stakeholder group)
• update: Terms of Reference were drafted by Scottish Government team and sent out to review by stakeholder group with minimal and positive feedback
• success criteria: Sign-off and approval of Terms of Reference by stakeholder group (monitored by emailed comments)
• update: Feedback on Terms of Reference were positive and no objections raised

Status

Completed.

Milestone: Launch a digital platform to house network (September 2022).

Update and next steps

Plan: Explore options and develop a suitable digital platform for the network, considering requirements relating to functionality, accessibility and cost.

• success criteria: Establishing a digital platform with required functionality (monitored through annual member survey)
• update: Explored suitable digital platforms for the network with Scottish Government Digital Engagement team. The team have largely settled on using a Dialogue platform
• success criteria: Developing digital platform within a small budget to be determined based on platform decision (monitored by budget spend)
• success criteria: Develop materials for the platform, such as co-drafted conversation rules, engagement guidelines, welcome video etc. (monitored by adherence of users/members to these rules and guidelines)

Status

In progress/on track.

Milestone: Successfully launch the stakeholder network (October 2022)

Update and next steps

Plan: Launch the stakeholder network, sending out initial invites to relevant organisations along with background material on OGP, the Terms of Reference, forward-planner of potential milestones, and resources for climate literacy and accessibility/inclusivity.

• success criteria: At least 20 stakeholders joining the network initially (monitored through digital platform)
• success criteria: Opportunities identified for the network to feed into core engagement processes and planning and their delivery (monitored by extent of engagement with SG teams)

Status

To be completed.

Milestone: Network to advise on engagement activity for  Just Transition Sector Plans (October 2022 onwards)

Update and next steps

Plan: Scottish Government team to present opportunities for members to advise on engagement activity for Just Transition Sector Plans (JTSP), members to opt in to opportunities where they see their advice relevant.

• success criteria: At least 4 opportunities for network members to opt in to advise on JTSP engagement activity (monitored through digital platform).
• success criteria: At least 10 members to advise on each opportunity (monitored through digital platform).
• success criteria: Ensuring network’s input is utilised and ‘You Said, We Did’ type feedback is given to the network on the outcomes of their involvement at the end of each activity (monitored through digital platform)

Status

To be completed.

Milestone: Network to advise on engagement activity for the Climate Change Plan (October 2022 onwards).

Update and next steps

Plan: Scottish Government team to present opportunities for members to advise on engagement activity for Climate Change Plan (CCP), members to opt in to opportunities where they see their advice relevant.

• Success criteria: At least 4 opportunities for network members to opt in to advise on CCP engagement activity (monitored through digital platform)
• Success criteria: At least 10 members advise on each opportunity (monitored through digital platform)
• Success criteria: Ensuring network’s input is utilised and ‘You Said, We Did’ type feedback is given to the network on the outcomes of their involvement at the end of each activity (monitored through digital platform)

Status

To be completed.

Milestone: Deliver six monthly network meetings (April and October, annually)

Update and next steps

Plan: Bi-annual network meetings, co-chaired by the Public Engagement team and members of the network, to offer discussion, reviews, feedback on previous six months and a forward-look of the next six months.

• success criteria: Attendance at the meetings by at least 50% of the network membership (monitored by attendance)
• success criteria: Ability to use the meetings for continuous improvement purposes, for example embedding feedback into the forward-look activities (monitored by level of feedback and relevant actions completed)

Status

To be completed.