Recommendation 10:
We recommend new cultural strategies, where applicable, reference relevant past strategies to reflect and evaluate on the status of their aims, and going forward establish a way for aims to be regularly reflected on and evaluated.
The Cultural Strategies Continuity Flowchart is a Word document template with coloured boxes and linking arrows to help make connections and evaluate continuity between different cultural strategies over time. For example, where a place has a cultural strategy from 2018-2023 and is developing a cultural strategy for a new time period (i.e., 2025-2030). It can be downloaded, adapted and used.
We recommend that new cultural strategies establish a way for aims to be regularly reflected on and evaluated in the future.
The Cultural Strategies Periodic Review & Reflection is a Word document with a suggested structure and prompt questions. It can be downloaded, adapted and used.
This template may be more appropriate as conceptual prompt where existing approaches already exist (e.g., local authority dashboards and evaluation monitoring). Engagement with these existing approaches is essential so that portfolios/areas (i.e., culture and health) and reporting contexts (e.g. UNESCO Creative Cities Network) can connect.
As an additional resource, the below PowerPoint presentation includes examples of how cultural strategies establish a way for objectives to be regularly reflected on and evaluated in the future. All strategies can be accessed via the dataset available from Think Kit Resource 2