Task Force 6 focuses on co-creation for nature-based solutions, which involves engaging citizens and stakeholders in assessing problems and issues, designing nature-based solutions, implementing them and monitoring their impact.
Objectives:
- Identify and promote ways to integrate principles of equality, inclusiveness and justice in NbS
- Explore and analyse the socio-political conditions to develop NbS and the existing planning and institutional barriers
- Explore, formalise and stage bottom-up initiatives for NbS (i.e. meta-governance)
- Explore co-governance gaps in the full lifecycle of NbS, from strategic decisions to long-term management
- Explore co-creation approaches and innovations with systemic, sociotechnical perspectives, e.g. through NbS Living Labs, participatory evaluation and place keeping
Key activities for 2021: Task Force 6 incorporates several working clusters that are led by, contributed to, and reviewed by representatives of different projects. These clusters are:
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NbS introduction – to frame the topic of co-creation for NbS
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Co-creation for/with who
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Co-governance and policies
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Co-creation good practice and resources
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Monitoring and evaluation
Each cluster will agree the definition of their topic; define their agenda and timing; identify output formats for their work, such as videos, webinars, posters; and consider links with ongoing work in the projects. The outputs from the cluster will be made available in a wiki format as well as communicated in other forms as determined by the clusters. Due to the focus on spatial planning, the Task Force coordinates with Task Force 3 to avoid overlap and duplication.