Deep listening to the communities in the coal cities in Ukraine

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The main objective of this task is to develop deeper understanding of the social, economic and environmental dynamics and perceptions operating within a system we want to transform - coal cities. It means listening to (people) and to (nature) and future generations. “Listening to people” includes creation of the questionnaires together with Acclab and finding the ways to collect responses (e.g. thought chat-bots; theatre of oppressed; social media listening and similar). See example of this methodology here: https://www.pk.undp.org/content/pakistan/en/home/blog/2020/covid-19--why....

• Community organizing

• Community participation and development

  Ukraine has closed down 68 state-owned mining enterprises since 2004, with another 19 state-owned mines either being closed or prepared for shut-down. UNDP Ukraine recognizes that rapid decline in coal production raises important questions about what to do with the huge industrial complexes, however even more questions about the impacts on the cities dependent on such industries (e.g. unemployment, declining quality of the public services, environmental consequences and so on) and there is a need to grapple with how to plan and implement strategies to mitigate these impacts, and how to create alternative social, environmental and economic foundations that can sustain transformation of the coal-dependent areas. Currently UNDP has explored a number of innovative practices (system-thinking frameworks, deep listening and sensemaking methods, portfolio creation and management approaches) on how to tackle local level challenges. UNDP Ukraine would like to test application of those to the Just Transition cases in the mono-functional coal dependent towns - Murnograd and Chervonograd, and for this we would like to start with deep listening to the community exercises.

• Volunteers: 2 needed

• 6-10 hours per week / 8 weeks

  Some of those or similar: Social media listening, chat-bot creation, theater of oppressed, survey, sociological research, in-depth interviews and similar

• Ukraine

• English, Russian, Ukrainian