Opinion of tools

Name of the tool
The context analysis

Positive comments about the tool
• The integration of the local context including the relevant stakeholders.
• The integration of multiple criteria including social, ecological and economic.
• The tool causes the indicators within the process to be explicit and hence supports a transparent decision process.

Negative comments about the tool
• The steps suggested by the tool (locality analysis, multi criteria analysis and dialogue workshop) might seem too ambitious – and expensive – for the client.