RAISD D6.3 Report on the involvement of local stakeholders

The goal of this document is to perform an ex-post analysis of the most relevant issues concerning the involvement of both local and international stakeholders in the RAISD project activities, through their cooperation with the Partners and in the ARUs. Beyond the design and implementation of the TAIS, ARUs made great achievements also thanks to the participation of all stakeholders throughout the entire project lifespan.

The very nature of the project and especially of the TAISs as one of its most relevant outputs, calls for a deep and wide involvement of a very diversified range of local stakeholders such as academics, researchers, NGOs, service providers, business company and even local public authorities, whereas it must be emphasized that the role of these stakeholders is vital in order to ensure the sustainability of the whole action. Also FDP and vulnerable groups have been represented in the activities of the project, both as active actors and beneficiaries.

In this frame, this document is based on the collection of information from a series of previous deliverables and surveys, and on the outcome of a specific survey which was executed with the goal of collecting missing information about the engagement and involvement of stakeholders in the RAISD project.

Therefore, the document starts by illustrating the methodology which has been applied to its elaboration, explaining the information sources and how they were processed.

It then reports the main inputs provided by the members of the external Advisory Board on the stakeholders’ engagement, which are particularly valuable being the expression of an independent view. The subsequent session focuses on analysing in which ways the stakeholders were selected and involved in the ARUs and TAISs.

The next section summarises the outcomes of the involvement of external stakeholders in the three cross-pilots organised by CESIE in order to create synergies among the different ARUs. It then analyses the main activities performed by the ARUs in addition to the implementation of the TAIs.

Subsequently it analyses two key aspects in terms of sustainability, namely the continuous involvement of the ARUs members and of the other stakeholders also after the end of the funding period.

The document concludes with the analysis of how two concrete outputs of the project will have an impact on sustainability, namely the trainings delivered as part of WP6 and the Observatory.

Finally some conclusions are drawn for the work depicted above.