Typical Outcome
The following statistics are drawn from an evaluation of the Planit-nw project, which delivered training to 982 delegates in over 50 workshops:

• 86% of delegates say the workshop increased awareness and understanding of    sustainable development.
• 80% of delegates say the workshop has increased the importance of sustainable    development and joined up thinking in community plan.
• 67% of delegates say Planit-nw improved their decision-making.
• 67% say Planit-nw workshops have improved working relationships and joint working    within local communities.

Dominic Harrison, Director of the North West Health Development Agency (HDA), said: " We support this innovatory approach, which raises the vital issue of partnership approaches to sustainable development and allows us to progress towards meeting our needs today as well as those of generations to come."

“Gets everyone talking to each other
and developing a common approach.”

The impact of the North West programme is being felt right across the region. LSP Coordinators report that sustainable development has become more important in the operations of the partnership. For example, Salford LSP report the setting up a Sustainable Development Commission; Sefton LSP talk of the raised priority of sustainable development and a more holistic decision-making process feeding into the community strategy; South Ribble LSP say that Planit has resulted in the use of the Integrated Appraisal Toolkit; Warrington LSP is encouraged that where once issues were being seen separately they are now being linked and that this is feeding into the Community Strategy; and in South Lakeland, the Council is drawing up papers so that the learning is embedded into the processes rather than being lost .

“We grasped the concept of the game,
took on responsibility and effectively contributed”