IN BRIEF
Becoming a Destination Partner
What's Involved ?
STEP 1
Take the Happiness Survey to understand what the project is about and the type of questions asked in the survey.
The survey is available in 17 different languages. Check to see if it is available in the right language for your destination. If the language you need isn’t available, we can provide a soft copy in English, advise and assist with suggestions to complete a translation. While we do not have funds to support translation, experience suggests local NGOs or universities may be able to support this step.
STEP 2
Think through a basic strategy for raising local awareness about the project and deploying the survey within the World Heritage destination area. This likely involves identifying local partners and colleagues to work with to deploy the survey and ensure a good completion rate. It may mean starting conversations with, for example, local universities, destination management organisations, tourism associations, chambers of commerce, NGOs, civil society organisations, journalists, clubs, associations, and local schools.
STEP 3
Email us at planethappiness@happycounts.org to register your interest to join Planet Happiness and help think through these different steps. Planet Happiness will supply a URL that allows residents within your destination area to share the same login and take the survey for your destination.
Planet Happiness can also advise on alternative options to deploy the survey in destinations where the internet isn't available or manual completion of surveys is a preferred method to embrace target communities. Also see the inspiring video at the bottom of this webpage, demonstrating how Brazils' Instituto Visao Futuro deployed their GNH survey among target communities.
STEP 4
Develop a working relationship with Planet Happiness. Planet Happiness will work with you in a number of ways. To get things moving Planet Happiness relies on local partners to support some or each of the following.
What's Involved ?
STEP 1
Take the Happiness Survey to understand what the project is about and the type of questions asked in the survey.
The survey is available in 17 different languages. Check to see if it is available in the right language for your destination. If the language you need isn’t available, we can provide a soft copy in English, advise and assist with suggestions to complete a translation. While we do not have funds to support translation, experience suggests local NGOs or universities may be able to support this step.
STEP 2
Think through a basic strategy for raising local awareness about the project and deploying the survey within the World Heritage destination area. This likely involves identifying local partners and colleagues to work with to deploy the survey and ensure a good completion rate. It may mean starting conversations with, for example, local universities, destination management organisations, tourism associations, chambers of commerce, NGOs, civil society organisations, journalists, clubs, associations, and local schools.
STEP 3
Email us at planethappiness@happycounts.org to register your interest to join Planet Happiness and help think through these different steps. Planet Happiness will supply a URL that allows residents within your destination area to share the same login and take the survey for your destination.
Planet Happiness can also advise on alternative options to deploy the survey in destinations where the internet isn't available or manual completion of surveys is a preferred method to embrace target communities. Also see the inspiring video at the bottom of this webpage, demonstrating how Brazils' Instituto Visao Futuro deployed their GNH survey among target communities.
STEP 4
Develop a working relationship with Planet Happiness. Planet Happiness will work with you in a number of ways. To get things moving Planet Happiness relies on local partners to support some or each of the following.
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STEP 5
Provide monthly updates through the local media to share the collective results of the survey and encourage additional take-up of the survey by local residents.
STEP 6
Convene local meetings and stakeholder forums to discuss the collective results. Contrast and compare your collective results with the results of other destinations partnering with Planet Happiness. Through consultation processes, identify what government, businesses and other stakeholders can do to support and strengthen the collective well-being of host communities.
Planet Happiness together with its wider partnership network will work with you to support and assist this process.
Click on the Happiness Report Card 2018 below to see an example of how survey data can be presented in an engaging format. The focus and content of Planet Happiness reports will vary from site to site depending upon the results harvested and issues shaping destination development. Reports will also be composed comparing results between and across World Heritage sites.
Read the Happiness Report Card Quarter One by the Happiness Alliance
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Watch the video explaining Brazil's Gross National Happiness Project lead by Susan Andrews.
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