ESSENTIAL: Joining forces - how to make local climate partnerships a success

The document outlines five key strategies for building effective local climate partnerships: strategic partner selection, the inclusion of marginalised and opposing groups, leveraging local actors with clear spheres of influence, ensuring mutual benefit through co-design, and employing a trusted facilitator or knowledge broker.

• Effective climate compatible development in urban and subnational areas depends on long-term partnerships between local governments and a diverse range of public and private actors, including meteorological centres and community-based organisations.
• To improve the identification of climate solutions, local governments should strategically select partners beyond the public sphere and environmental sector to access complementary expertise.
• Successful partnerships must prioritise the involvement of citizens most exposed to climate change who lack resources, as well as actors who may be hostile to climate compatible development.
• Local governments should partner with knowledgeable local actors and map their spheres of influence and accountability to understand their motivations and contributions.
• Partnerships are more sustainable when projects are co-designed so that every partner benefits from the outcome and a trusted knowledge broker is used to facilitate the process.

APA

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (2016). ESSENTIAL: Joining forces - how to make local climate partnerships a success. https://cdkn.org/resource/essential-joining-forces-make-local-climate-partnerships-success

Chicago

Climate and Development Knowledge Network. ESSENTIAL: Joining forces - how to make local climate partnerships a success. 2016. https://cdkn.org/resource/essential-joining-forces-make-local-climate-partnerships-success.

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BibTeX

@techreport{climateanddevelopmentknowledgenetwork2016essential, author = {{Climate and Development Knowledge Network}}, title = {{ESSENTIAL: Joining forces - how to make local climate partnerships a success}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2016}, month = oct, url = {https://cdkn.org/resource/essential-joining-forces-make-local-climate-partnerships-success}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }