Stakeholder Input and Facilitation

Almost all of our projects – particularly our social impact and our survey research experience – involve some form of public input and/or facilitation of stakeholder advisory groups. It is an integral aspect of our work.

However, below are selected efforts that feature particularly extended programs of working with community groups over months or years:

Public Input for Planning

• Community interviews and outreach for Kamehameha Schools' strategic planning effort of O`ahu North Shore lands (2006-07)  

• Public input/outreach for “Sustainable Tourism Study” (2002-04) – ongoing meetings of a multi-stakeholder working group (visitor industry, environmentalists, Native Hawaiians, county planners) that produced a consensus vision that was then largely incorporated into the Hawai`i Tourism Authority's strategic plan … convened and worked with a Native Hawaiian Advisory Group over two years … held two rounds of public meetings on all islands.

•  Waialua Town Master Plan (2002-04) – worked with Group 70 and Friends of Waialua to craft City-sponsored master plan that subsequently won the American Planning Assn. (Hawai`i Chapter) "Community-Based Planning Award" of 2005.

•  Community outreach, Windward O`ahu water quality plan development for Kailua Bay Advisory Council (1998).

•  Facilitation/analysis of committee response and objectives: Proposed State Community Health Information System (1993-94).

•  Helped design and implement Kuilima Resort community input on specific benefits for residents (1988-93). This five-year effort resulted in the state's first nonprofit dedicated to training local residents for the visitor industry, and also resulted in community-based plans for child care and employee housing associated with resort development.

•  Kahe Point OTEC project community dialogue program in `Ewa-Wai`anae (1983-84) and social impact (1984).

In addition to these extended engagements, Dr. Knox has chaired or facilitated many public meetings, conferences, and seminars on a pro bono basis – including faculty and student input to the University of Hawai`i's Strategic Plan, and negotiations between the Hawai`i State Dept. of Business, Economic Development & Tourism and the Governor of Cebu (Philippines) on implementing sister-state relationships.