Committee Tools

This is a tool which helps a group in a meeting decide what tasks are most important for them. It also helps them choose what path, ouf many choices, to follow in their work.

The people, usually outside your group, that you will work with, are called ‘stakeholders’ These also usually work to improve community sustainability. They can be in local government or international organizations. But they can also be local groups or even just be local people with important skills.

This tool, helps you look at yourself so you can ask questions and begin conversations in your group. You will talk and think about how you do things to help make your group fair to everyone no matter who they are or where they come from.

Your group probably has its one true goal that it was set up for. But it also has lots of other ideas which you all think could help you get to that main goal. The RICE method can help you find out a clear picture of those different big ideas using actual numbers and not just ‘gut feelings’

The main purpose of this activity is to help the group think about what experiences they have shared with eachother. You will get an idea of what the group has been through together. You should use this exercise at the end of a project, program.

Ordinary people should be involved in designing, planning, and building their future environment. Thinking about the future, what are called ‘futures’ exercises, focus on designing how the future can be imagined as more sustainable.

Everything has a cause. But the distance between the effect and the starting cause can be fairly long and not obvious at first. Often the cause of a negative event can be close to home and so more easily solved once we know the real cause: by asking ouselves the five ‘whys’.