KEEPING TRACK WITH CHANGES IN THE POLICY ENVIRONMENT will help you to understand changes in the wider policy environment to capture any associated developments in funding priorities.
追踪政策环境的变化将帮助你理解更广泛政策环境的变化，以捕捉任何相关的资金优先事项发展。

It focuses on keeping track and analysing the overall policy context of the Action Plan:
它专注于追踪和分析行动计划的整体政策背景：

• understanding the great lines of policy 理解政策的主要方向
• political circumstances  政治环境
• evolving social-economic need, 不断变化的社会经济需求，
• potential institutional change at the local, national and EU levels 地方、国家和欧盟层面的潜在制度变革
• and assessing the impact of any change on the Action Plan and its projects. 评估任何变革对行动计划及其项目的影响。

两个工具

• The Nested Wholes Diagram helps to understand the wider context of a project/action plan, particularly the policy context and the wider institutional, political and socio-economic environment.  
  嵌套整体图有助于理解项目/行动计划更广泛的背景，特别是政策背景以及更广泛的制度、政治和社会经济环境。
• The Iceberg Model is a tool for analysing the deeper causalities of a problem or phenomenon such as change. This helps distinguishing observed changes in a policy or institutional environment between those that are in or out of the project leader’s sphere of control.
  冰山模型是一种分析问题或现象（如变化）深层因果关系的工具。这有助于区分政策或制度环境中观察到的变化，哪些是在项目领导者控制范围内，哪些不是。

关键挑战

• At least some members of the group need to have a good level of understanding of the Action Plan in order to be able to identify strategic fit and to differentiate policy and institutional changes that have an immediate impact requiring adjustment of the Action Plan from those that are less urgent to address.
  该小组至少应有一些成员对行动计划有良好的理解水平，以便能够识别战略契合度，并区分那些需要立即调整行动计划的政策和制度变化，以及那些不太紧迫需要解决的问题。
• The analysis of the group regarding the observed changes needs to be sufficiently deep to establish the full range of impacts across the Action Plan and its Funding Strategy.
  对小组观察到的变化的分析需要足够深入，以确定行动计划及其资助策略的全面影响范围。
• In case of substantial policy or institutional changes, maintaining the original aims and objectives of an Action Plan can be challenging by requiring a substantial re-think of the Funding Strategy.
  在发生重大政策或制度变化的情况下，保持行动计划的原始目标和宗旨可能具有挑战性，因为这需要重新思考资助策略。

主要风险

• The participants are insufficiently aware of the Action Plan which can result in a wrong analysis.
  参与者对行动计划了解不足，可能导致分析错误。
• The participants are insufficiently aware of the policy and institutional realities and are therefore insufficiently informed about any changes affecting the funding environment.
  参与者对政策及制度现实的认识不足，因此对任何影响资金环境的变更了解不够充分。
• The analysis is done too quickly resulting in superficial and/or false results.
  分析过于仓促，导致结果表面化或/且错误。
• The analysis is biased or reflects disproportionately the individuals’ political convictions or professional goals.
  分析存在偏见，或不成比例地反映了个人的政治信仰或职业目标。
• There is a potential risk of over-reacting to any identified changes.
  存在对任何已识别的变化过度反应的潜在风险。

实用贴士

• Identify the most suitable people for the first and the following review meetings, i.e. those with substantial knowledge of current developments at policy, political, and institutional level.
  确定最适合参加首次和后续审查会议的人员，即那些对政策、政治和制度层面的当前发展有深入了解的人员。
• Be aware of the roots of the observed changes to assess the full impact of them across the Action Plan to evaluate the necessity for adjustment.
  注意观察变化的原因，以评估这些变化在整个行动计划中的全面影响，并判断是否需要调整。
• Be mindful of not changing the aims and objectives of your Action Plan radically just because a funding priority has ceased to exist. Instead look at other, alternative ways of funding to address the existing needs in your city. 
  不要因为一个资助优先事项不再存在就大幅改变你的行动计划的宗旨和目标。相反，应寻找其他替代的筹资方式，以解决你所在城市的现有需求。