Supporting urban sustainability

Terms of engagement This presentation sets out our ‘terms of engagement’ for the ‘Supporting Urban Sustainability’ (SUS) programme It sets out the kind of partnerships we are interested to develop It is designed to enable you to decide whether you would like to partner with us in our SUS programme

You are: In a position to make a strategic difference in your city Involved in running a city-wide programme (e.g. master planning; pro-poor green economy; slum empowerment) Committed to sustainable development - including equitable and pro-poor development and environmental resilience Constantly challenged to work out better ways of approaching this Interested in finding new ways to address complex issues through Already involved or willing to get involved in ecosystem services approaches to urban sustainability Value learning Interested in innovative approaches to professional and institutional development

We: Are committed to ‘strong’ forms of sustainable development Are setting up an innovative, professional development programme involving up to 30 senior decision makers from cities in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and Sweden Wish to further joint understanding of how ‘ecosystem services’ can help to alleviate poverty and contribute to sustainability in urban settings Our approach is based on mutual and collaborative learning, rather than a ‘blueprint’ training approach, which will focus on three questions or ‘inquiries’

Our three questions: How can ecosystem services approaches help alleviate poverty in urban settings? How can reflexive forms of governance provide conditions for the application of ecosystem services for poverty alleviation (ESPA) approaches in urban settings? How can collaborative learning support reflexive forms of governance and enable concerted action among urban stakeholders involved in ESPA approaches

Anticipated outcomes: Key urban professionals from your city can expect to deepen relevant professional skills and capabilities while building stakeholder collaborations to initiate and/or further develop ESPA-schemes Formation of an international network between the six participating cities and with experts associated with the PSDP programme Changes in understanding and action within the selected urban programmes in these six cities Longer term impacts in these six cities in terms of poverty alleviation and environmental resilience An innovative knowledge base that can be shared more widely with other cities interested in developing ESPA-schemes, reflexive governance and collaborative learning approaches.

Five steps to negotiating our partnership: 1.You express an initial interest on behalf of your city in our professional support & development programme (PSDP) and its partnership approach 2.You identify a city-wide programme within your city that you think might have an interest in the PSDP - and approach this programme to explore its potential engagement 3.If there is interest, we work with you and this city-wide programme to map its key stakeholder networks, based on a set of key criteria 4.You identify and agree five key actors from diverse sectors within this network, who are keen to participate in and commit to the PSDP 5.Partnership agreement drawn up in advance of the fist PSDP workshop in April 2011

Step 1: You express an initial interest on behalf of your city in our professional support & development programme (PSDP) and its partnership approach 1.We have already made contact with you - or are about to make contact - through a mutual network 2.You are interested in the PSDP approach we are offering and the potential strategic benefits that this might bring to your city 3.You are in a position to engage with others in your city in key strategic positions, who might also be interested in participating in our programme 4.We will contact you for one or more initial phone conversations, to discuss the opportunities and check that our interests are mutually aligned at the outset

Step 2: You identify a city-wide programme within your city that you think might have an interest in the PSDP - and approach this programme to explore its potential engagement 1.We are interested to work with an existing city-wide programme – one which already has a sustainability focus, or would like to strengthen this aspect 2.Such city-wide programmes could include master-planning, slum empowerment, and programmes to develop a pro-poor green economy across the city, to give just three illustrative examples 3.Perhaps you are already a part of one of these programmes; or if not, could introduce us to key people within one or more of these programmes 4.We would like you to help us to make contact with these key people, so that we can discuss potential opportunities and select a programme where our mutual interests are best aligned

Step 3: Once we have identified a city-wide programme, we will work with this programme to map its key stakeholder networks, based on an agreed set of key criteria 1.Our programme is built around the idea of strengthening governance networks – recognising that networks are key to making things happen in cities 2.So our starting point is to invite you to map the key stakeholders and networks associated with your programme 3.The mapping process we are proposing for this purpose can be found in the handout: ‘Mapping governance networks” (see our wiki: 4.The key steps of this mapping process are summarised overleaf

Key steps of the governance mapping process 1.Set up the mapping activity 2.Brainstorm key organisations/individuals with a stake in your programme 3.Analyse stakeholding across five categories – add further organisations/individuals to the brainstorm list 4.Cluster key organisations/individuals into 8-12 sector clusters 5.Undertake a rapid nodal analysis 6.Select and recommend 5 ‘nodal individuals’ from diverse sectors within the governance network of your programme

Steps 4 & 5: We work with you to: - select and contact five participants who will join the SUS-programme and - ensure that a Partnership agreement is drawn up in advance of the fist PSDP workshop in April or May You then contact us with your recommendation for 5 ‘nodal individuals’ and explain the basis for your selection 2.We then work with you to contact these individuals and invite them onto the programme 3.Together we may need to adjust the final list of 5, depending on the sort of response we get, and the availability of individuals for programme workshops in April or May and in June Finally, we draw up a partnership agreement with these five individuals in advance of the first PSDP workshop in April or May 2011.