112 MOUNTAIN LOG GET IRELAND WALKING Pictured previous page: Participants attending the first workshop of the Get Waterford Walking Stakeholders’ Group at Tower Hotel, Waterford, in February. Photo: Get Ireland Walking GET WATERFORD WALKING Get Ireland Walking is delighted to publish an action plan for Waterford. For stakeholders. By stakeholders. On Tuesday, June 12th, at the Teachers’ Centre in Waterford city, local stakeholders gathered to launch an action plan for “Get Waterford Walking,” part of the broader, national Get Ireland Walking initiative. The development of the plan provided an opportunity for stakeholders to collectively identify and implement walking-specific actions across recreation, transport and health sectors. Get Ireland Walking aims to act as the catalyst to unify the efforts of organisations in Ireland, including those in Waterford, that play a role in the promotion and development of walking. In 2018, Get Ireland Walking undertook a four-year research project to better understand how agencies and organisations intersected within the walking system to deliver and plan for walking. The research, in partnership with South East Technological University (SETU), set out to achieve two key objectives: 1. Get Ireland Walking sought to understand the nexus of policies, programmes, organisations and data embedded within local and national walking systems across Ireland, using Cork city and county to carry out this research. 2. Investigate how useful systems approaches could be in enhancing the work of local and national stakeholders, who contribute to walking promotion and development throughout Ireland. Waterford adopted this systems model of working, where stakeholders from across Waterford city and county gathered to discuss what was working well with respect to walking promotion and development. A series of workshops subsequently supported the stakeholder group to identify gaps within that system and highlighted where collaborative efforts could be made to support more participation in walking, the delivery of programmes, events and campaigns, in addition to advocacy efforts and information sharing.
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