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Canines, coconuts, karaoke and cake-dancing - stakeholder

engagement in KiribatiAllison Crawley &Jude Mulholland

• Comprises 32 coral atolls ~ 4m above sea level• One of the world’s poorest nations• Independence from Britain in 1979• Tarawa population 50,000 (2010) in 30km x ≤0.5km

3000 km

1500 kmEquator

The Nation of Kiribati

Tarawa Atoll

How?

• 12 month family posting with AVI to Tarawa, 2012

• “ coached” by AMRRIC Dr Jan Allen in 2012 & presentation at annual conference 2013

• Dr Jude Mulholland veterinarian, private funding

• Dog management visits to Tarawa: Aug 2014, June 2015, Aug 2016

Keys to effective stakeholder engagement

• Step 1: What is our purpose?

• Step 2: Who do we engage?

• Step 3: How do we engage?

• Step 4: Evaluate the engagement process

• To promote human and animal well being through improved dog and cat health and welfare, and education

• Ground level engagement on South Tarawa

• No rabies

Purpose

Stakeholders

• Agriculture & Livestock Division

– desexing & animal health care

• Councils

– Dog registration & management

• [Village elders]

• Local people

How to engage stakeholders? Comparison of two councils:

• Meeting mayors – their vision & motivation with few resources

• BTC Council – no engagement

• TUC COUNCIL – culturally atypical!

• First council in Kiribati with a strategic plan

• Updated Animal Control By-laws 2015

TUC Council

• Provision of dog wardens, radio, newspaper and dancing advertising, and a dog registration

process and officers.

TUC Council Transport of dog owners with their dogs to clinics by dog wardens, more than doubled surgical

cases per day.

E aera ena korokoro au kamea?

A MWAITI KAMEA

= A MWAITI KANGANGA

Aki koreaki aia tabo n kariki kamea:

• Karokoa te mange

Kaukau nte tairiki

• Bati te un

• Te birinako

• Rimwiia kamea biri n te kawai

• E bungiia

Aika a mwaiti

Bun kamea

Te korokoro e karaoaki iaoia:

Kamea aine, aika bikoukou, mwaane ao aika a

uarereke

Korakoran

maanin te

korokoro ni karokoa tokin maeun te kamea. E aki

manga kona n kariki ke n rimwiin te kamea aine.

E kona au kamea n kaorakiia au utu?

A kona, kamea aika aoraki.

Taian mwata a karaokiia kamea. A kariki kanganga

nakon biritoia kamea, riki bun kamea.

Bunimoan mwatan te kamea a maeu nte baareka

ao e kona n rin irouia ataei. Mwaata aika a uarereke

karekea te ngongo n kun nakoia

aomata ao n tabetai a kaorakiia

ataei.

Manin ke utin te kamea e tenaia aomata ao n karika

te ngongo ae korakora. Ngkana ea bati tenakin te

aomata ao ena karika te kinaka n

kun.

Teboka baim n tainako imwin

takakarom ma te kamea.

Ena aki newea am raurau ke n mooi n am mangko.

Taawa am kainiwene iaan te riringa ba ena tiring

koan ke utin am kamea.

Ena kanga n marurung ao n kukurei au

kamea?

• Anganna te ran ae itiaki n

katoa tai n katoabong.

• kamarakea raoi n

katoa bong.

• Ena koreaki am kamea nte Botaki n ununiki

(MELAD) ke kawara taokitaia maan mai

Aotiteria.

• Angann te bwatin n mwata (3-6 namakaina) riki

ngkana a uarereke.

• Takakaro ma am kamea bwa a tangira te kukurei

• Karia ngakana ko a manga maeka nte auti

ae kaokoro.

• Ena tauaki mwina nte kauntira.

Engaging local people - education

How to engage stakeholders?

How to engage stakeholders?

How to engage stakeholders?

• TALK at every opportunity with all stakeholders possible, take notes, ask questions

• CONNECT with a cultural interpreter/advisor

• Develop TRUST

• COLLABORATE/shared vision

• Identify a local “champion” & support them

• Identify mentoring and training opportunities

• Start small

Evaluate Engagement

• Growth in uptake/response

• Stakeholder feedback – immediate only

• Challenges of communications – how to keep interacting & following up?

• Report distribution – to which stakeholders?

Love your feedback & ideas. Please chat with us!

Jude MulhollandLeesa Grant

Rosemary MillerHelen Purdam