Building trust and rapport Sample Clauses

Building trust and rapport. The study found that rapport and trust were cultivated through daily interactions with government officials. These close interactions allowed policy entrepreneurs to capitalize on policy windows to 10 Figure re-produced from an open access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY license which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction. develop adaptation policies. In one of the case studies a technical expert embedded with the Government helped develop a process of drafting long term climate policy and ensure that it was approved by relevant officials. Informal relationships with senior level policy and decision makers was also critical to the success of policy entrepreneurs. The policy entrepreneurs working through ACT were either embedded in government agencies or worked in close proximity to government offices. As such these individuals were able maintained day to day contact with government bureaucrats and the implementers of adaptation policies. The policy entrepreneurs also provided technical advice and inputs into policy discussions which helped them built rapport and allowed them to take advantage of windows of opportunity when they opened. However, the study also found that building trust with government actors was resource intensive and could be a risk if there were changes in personnel or government. To mitigate this risk the ACT program also worked closely with researchers and organizations who had already built relationships and cultivated trust with government officials.
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