Supporting urban sustainability

1. Supporting urban sustainability

2. 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 Terms of engagement

3. Involved in running a city-wide programme (e.g. master planning; pro-poor green economy; slum empowerment) In a position to make a difference in your city 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 You:

4. 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’ We invite you to work with us if these questions seem relevant to your city-wide programme We:

5. 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) in urban settings? How can collaborative learning support reflexive forms of governance and enable concerted action among urban stakeholders involved in ESPA approaches Our three questions:

6. 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 programmesin 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. Anticipated outcomes:

7. You express an initial interest on behalf of your city in our professional support & development programme (PSDP) and its partnership approach 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 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 You identify and agree five key actors from diverse sectors within this network, who are keen to participate in and commit to the PSDP We work with you to select five participants who will join the SUS-programme Partnership agreement drawn up in advance of the fist PSDP workshop in April 2011 Five steps to negotiating our partnership: