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Circulate draft findings
Draft reports should be circulated to each relevant service/ministry to provide them with the opportunity to pose questions and clarifications.
Form stakeholder alliances at the national and local levels
Facilitate a balance between national-level dialogue and local responsiveness.
Institutionalize findings through government response and action
Include a government response step in the process, sometime after the tool’s findings are made public.
Prepare media in advance and educate them on the details of the tools
Preparatory sessions for the media before press conferences ensure that key messages are understood, reported, and articulated in a positive and constructive manner. Also, a holistic understanding on the part of journalists will allow them to report on positive and negative findings, be sensitive to shades of gray, and convey findings in a valueneutral manner.
Deploy mobile digital schools toward public opinion mobilization
These schools consist of the following: mobile teacher (MT4 player), a place where people already gather, course content in the form of an oral library (A/V based), trained mentors, collective learning process, and cascade effect through community sharing.
Feedback from Participants’ Response Cards Q: Is mobilized public opinion a sufficient condition for achieving behavior change in public officials? What else may be necessary? It is a necessary but not sufficient condition [that] among other factors necessary for achieving change are: correct choice of the target (what should be changed and who among officials can change things); taking into account the interests of public officials and institutions they represent; system of incentives and sanctions public officials can face; times and timing; culture, especially political culture. Mobilized public opinion is important but not sufficient for behavior change in public officials. Need also incentives/sanctions, international pressure, use of judiciary, or other institutionalized systems.