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From my first post on collaboratives I came up with a set of questions to address in the coming days. The first I am tackling is what are the various outputs from collaboratives. Koontz and Thomas (2006) who were part of the last post's question on what collaboratives are, inquire about what we need to know about environmental outcomes from collaboratives. They list a number of outputs from collaboratives that others have studied. I begin there. They pointedly ask if collaboratives as a policy choice result in different outcomes than other approaches, and what those differences are.
They provide a list of environmental outputs and outcomes and the data collection methods that have been used to measure them in the following chart:
The outputs range from the creation of documents such as plans and reports, to operational activities such as specific projects completed, to changes in policy, to changes in the management practices of participant and non-participating organizations, to programs started. The variation in outputs is broad.
There may be other outputs from collaboratives such as norms and social network changes that are not on this list due to the constraint of environmental outputs. Tomorrow I will look into what those might be.
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