Co-designing in Tandem

The study tests the Tandem framework—a non-prescriptive guide for co-designing climate services—in Indonesia, Sweden, and Colombia. The authors found the framework effective in transforming climate information from 'useful' to 'usable' by building trust and institutional embedding. Based on these cases, the framework was enhanced to better incorporate vulnerability scoping, social equity, traditional knowledge, governance scales, and impact indicators.

• The Tandem framework successfully transitioned climate information from being merely 'useful' to 'usable' across different contexts. This was achieved by fostering trust, strengthening institutional relationships and networks, increasing the capacity and confidence of users, and improving the providers' understanding of the decision-making context.
• Case study insights led to five specific enhancements of the original Tandem framework: the ability to review climate and non-climate risks, the integration of power and gender equity, the inclusion of traditional ecological knowledge, the exploration of governance scales, and the use of flexible starting points with early impact indicators.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2024). Co-designing in Tandem. https://www.sei.org/publications/co-designing-in-tandem/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Co-designing in Tandem. 2024. https://www.sei.org/publications/co-designing-in-tandem/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2024codesigning, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Co-designing in Tandem}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2024}, month = aug, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/co-designing-in-tandem/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }