Table 5.1: Drivers specific to programme participation
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| Category of driver 'For' or 'against' |
Influences within the individual's immediate, day-to-day circumstances (5.5) |
Knowledge, understanding and skills to make decisions to change (5.6) |
Influences from the public policy environment (5.7) |
Influences from the community and the immediate social environment (5.8) |
The orientation of home heating and related commercial services (5.9) |
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Drivers encouraging change to cleaner heating, improved energy efficiency and warmer homes |
(1) Being able to meet eligibility criteria (2) Assistance sufficient to make change possible (3) Financial incentive sufficient to 'tip' the decision |
(1) Awareness of the programme (2) A programme that is simple to understand (3) The role of in-home assessments to customise solutions (4) Rising expectations of the quality of energy services, comfort and warmth |
(1) Government leadership (2) Co-ordination of policy and programme effort across government (3) Sustaining public programme efforts and promotions over the long term (4) The role of incentives to accelerate change |
(1) Using organisations/people with established relationships to households to promote the programme (2) Using organisations/people with established relationships to households to deliver the programme (3) Information sources that are trusted (4) Local champions (5) Skilled project managers for local projects |
(1) Using registered installers who are audited (2) The role of approved suppliers/ installers in educating other professionals |
Drivers inhibiting change to cleaner heating, improved energy efficiency and warmer homes |
(4) Inflexible eligibility criteria as the only gateway to participation |
(5) Eligibility requirements that are complicated and onerous (6) Insufficient levels of social marketing to reach enough households |
(5) The cross-compliance requirement to insulate homes (6) Ineffectual deadlines (7) Insufficient $ resources for promotion (8) Failure to build working relationships (9) Staff turnover (10) Commercial tendering procedures (11) Inability of programme implementers to target households |
(3) Finance, mortgage (and energy sector) not engaged |
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