Ben Collins // March 16th 2014
After an extensive class discussion and a flurry of emails, we decided that we would focus on trying to improve the communication of the EITI report. We had a lengthy discussion on what we felt were the most important aspects coming out of the report.
Eventually to help clearly communicate them. Discussions took place on creating a 2 page summary sheet for each report, again to help highlight the important insights. The difficult part is that different stakeholder could have different thoughts on which aspects of the report are most important. We determined that a survey sent to various EITI stakeholders (NGOs, governments and companies), would help us frame the most important aspects to include in a 2 page summary.
We are focussing on finding out the information from the EITI that is most important to the Mongolian people. Thus, our survey is designed and tailored to NGOs and governmental organizations working with and representing the Mongolian people.
Over the last week as a class we were able to brainstorm survey questions and create a draft of our online survey. The class also divided up into a number of groups: communications, surveying, visual media and report writing. The next steps are to create a list of who to contact for the survey and to continue to learn and gather information about the EITI report in Mongolia.