Co-creation guidance: Pathway & 16 Steps
The CLEVER Guidance on Co-creating Nature-based Solutions (NbS) offers valuable advice and resources for municipalities and local authorities looking to conceive and implement NbS. It is intended to be flexibly adapted to different cities’ contexts and inclusive to a diversity of stakeholders.
- The Co-Creation Guidance_Part I addresses the co-creation pathway and the understanding of co-benefits, as well as stakeholders’ involvement in the processes.
- The Co-Creation Guidance_Part II outlines 16 steps and a toolkit for the implementation of the co-creation process to support cities to achieve successful implementation of NbS
Tailoring your communications to your audience and using the appropriate terminology enhances engagement with, and support for NbS acceptance.
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- Hamburg
- London
- Milan
- Malmö
Employing creative ways to engage vulnerable groups and keeping regular contact with them, in case of the impossibility of organising in-person meetings.
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- Hamburg
- London
- Milan
- Belgrade
Fostering a deeper engagement of the community by setting up wide-reaching communications, and raising awareness actions.
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- Hamburg
- London
- Milan
- Madrid
Promoting co-ownership by creating and maintaining a core group of stakeholders (e.g. Urban Innovation Partnership-UIP) and proposing participative activities (neighbourhood events), to pursue the success of the implementation process. Making it flexible (involvement of right members at a given time) contributes to its proper functionning.
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- Milan
- Belgrade
- Larissa
- Madrid
- Malmö
- Quito
- Sfântu Gheorghe
Involving key community-stakeholders at early stages in the all phases of the co-creation process (NbS planning, co-design, co-monitoring, co-implementation, co-maintenance...), so that they are aware of the benefits and assume responsibility.
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- London
- Milan
- Belgrade
- Madrid
- Quito
Using diverse engagement techniques, considering both online and face-to-face possibilities, may ensures the right level of engagement.
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- Hamburg
- London
- Milan
- Belgrade
Involving scientific/technical experts during the entire process of monitoring (establishing the vision, defining KPIs, measuring the pregreening, designing the questionnaire, guiding the post-greening methods, support the analysis of results, and reporting).
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- Monitoring
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- Hamburg
- Milan
- Belgrade
- Madrid
- Quito
Involving different departments of the municipality at the early-stages of the process, so that they are aware of the activities, objectives, needed contributions, fostering an active collaboration.
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- Hamburg
- Milan
- Belgrade
- Larissa
- Madrid
- Malmö
- Quito
- Sfântu Gheorghe
Involving a professional expert experienced in co-design to jointly work with the city, proposing training sessions in terms of method and tools.
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- Hamburg
- London
- Milan
- Madrid
- Quito
Upskilling and building knowledge on co-creation processes within the cities administration team, aiming to embed these processes in future projects and programmes.
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- Management
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- London
- Milan
- Quito
Using digital tools and scenario-creation at early stages of the project conception to support the co-ideation and co-design processes.
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- Monitoring
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- Hamburg
- Madrid
Being precise about the definition of co-design and being clear about the specific requirements (to the project/institution) in a procurement to find a multi-disciplinary team.
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- London
- Milan
- Quito