Strategy 2: Influence and Decision Mapping
Guiding Questions.
What is the typical timeline for key decisions? Where and when are decisions locked in?
Who holds outsized power within our decision-making process and structure? Who doesn’t hold power? How might we redistribute decision-making power at all levels to elevate disempowered voices, including impacted community members, and promote health equity?
Do opportunities exist to integrate health equity considerations into key performance indicators (KPI) and decision-making criteria?
How might we ensure that direct capital gains or tax revenues from the development are directed into and not away from communities?
How does our project team delivery structure promote or reduce health equity? Does communication exist between practitioners involved in different project stages? How might we increase communication between community members and practitioners who influence project financials, planning and entitlement, design and build and operations to center health equity?
Who could we contact to help us answer the questions on this page?
Practice Tools and Resources.
1. Design as Protest Collective. (2021). Anti-Racist Design Justice Index. Design as Protest (DAP) Collective.
2. Centering Health Equity Critical Path Decisions worksheet.
3. Centering Health Equity Capital Flows worksheet.