Develop your PA or HA

Actions and Capacity

Policy Areas / Horizontal Actions are being formed – through interaction of internal implementing actors/stakeholders. They meet regularly, formulate joint statements, make sense of the Action Plan / Objectives, discuss Targets & Indicators, establish first routines, clarify roles and responsibilities, brainstorm and, possible, agree of main formats to be employed (e.g. flagships).

Capacity effects in Phase 1 mainly concern individuals and translate – via the individuals – to the institutions. PAC/HAS’s home institutions are being set up for the task (structures and management).

Effects

Almost no visible effects beyond this group of individuals (and definitely no external performance effects on the thematic/content progress, e.g on “water quality”)

Phase 1A: Scouting and Mobilisation (MLG)

Actions and Effects

Once the structures are set and plans made, the PA/HA goes into Phase 1A (intermediary phase) with the purpose of exploring the operation environment and a possible action field:

• analysing its prerequisites (e.g. “greenfield” or “brownfield”-effects, barriers and possible drivers)
• scouting for thematic issues (existing and emerging) that could be objects of attention for the PA/HA
• exploring possible value-added aspects and effects of Multi-Level Governance (MLG) on the PA/HA

Effects are still largely individual-based (‘leaders’) – early awareness of the PA/HA existence and intentions (and increasing awareness of the EUSBSR as a strategic framework, too). Ideally, PAC/HAC’s home institution starts to engage externally.

Possible actions: Participation days, active networking; internal discussions continue.

Horizontal Actions have developed their plan of activities and start to engage in activities carried out by Policy Areas, in order to fine-tune their ideas and do reality-check with PACs.