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This activity seeks to involve various key stakeholders to jointly prioritise the projects , it's also an opportunity to assign roles to each stakeholder, for each project. This is an important exercise to align and ensure sustainability and commitment in the implementation of the plan. The workshop should involve the advisory and steering committees, as well as other stakeholders responsible for implementing the projects and institutions, target groups and beneficiaries that would be directly or indirectly impacted or involved in the project. These can be representatives of various public bodies of the municipal and central governments. Before the workshop, the pre feasibility study can be shared with the participants so they can have an overview of the project lists and its pre feasibility.

First, the short list of projects and the information consolidated in the previous activity should be presented, which provides data that will inform the decision on the prioritisation of projects. Then, a methodology can be applied where a score from 0 - 5 is assigned to each project according to its contribution and alignment with the objectives and strategies of the plan (where 0 means no contribution and 5 means high contribution). An alternative exercise is to have a project sheet printed out and a panel with a horizontal axis where the left side is lower priority and the right side is higher priority. Participants should, in groups, agree to place the projects in order of priority. This ensures that there is a multi-stakeholder discussion to reach an agreement. Subsequently, the groups present their results and a debate is generated to reach a general consensus.

Next, the team must identify existing/ongoing initiatives, programmes, projects or instruments linked to each project. This exercise is important, in order to align and not duplicate resources, capacities and lessons, and create synergies between them Then, the workshop participants propose which stakeholders will be in charge of the implementation of each project. For this purpose, a matrix can be printed out that includes the list of projects with two columns next to it: one to add the main responsible instance and the other one for co-responsible instance(s). The aim is to generate discussion, consensus and commitment of the parties involved; and to ensure the implementation and monitoring of projects. It is therefore important to facilitate the participation of all those present. It should be a momentum to reflect upon the effects and benefits that each project can have on the city and how it responds to the challenges identified in the diagnosis; as well as to visualise and foresee the process of execution and implementation of each project.