Consensus Building

Sometimes the way to the best solution is to bring the stakeholders together and work out a consensus strategy.

Example Consensus Projects lead by Brian A. Day:

The National Office Paper Recycling Project

Corporations from multiple industries, environmental organizations, and local governments all felt the best way to get office paper recycled was not necessarily to regulate it.  An initial set of eight major industrial players, four associations of local governments and a couple of major national environmental organizations sat down at the table to develop a national policy for office paper recycling.  After 18 months of difficult work, a national strategy was agreed upon. Hundreds of millions of dollars have now been invested by those industry sectors in keeping with the commitment to this strategy.  To date there has been no further national regulation of the process, and today millions of tons of paper have been recycled and purchased as recycled content paper.

Middle East Water Education Efforts

The US Government is the gavel holder (chair) of the Middle East Peace Process, Multi-lateral Working Group on Water.  The US State Department put money into USAID to lead an effort to get the Water Working Group to develop a water education process that would involve the three core parties, the Palestinians, Israelis, and Jordanians.  Brian A. Day served as the convener and facilitator of this process for two years.  The outputs of the process included many printed materials, a half hour television program that was produced in three languages by J-Net / Ecology Communications and shown in 27 countries throughout the region and beyond.

If you have needs for consensus building, please contact EC&T at assist@envcomm.com