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STEP 6

Build and sustain a community of practice

Creating a community of practice helps institutionalise learning, encourages peer-to-peer exchange, and amplifies the impact of successful DRR and climate adaptation initiatives. By connecting stakeholders across government, civil society, academia, and the private sector, communities of practice can share experiences, track progress, and collaboratively scale solutions that are locally relevant and sustainable. It helps cities to translate technical data into accessible formats that both communities and political leaders can understand and act upon.

Goal

Institutionalise learning, foster peer exchange, and scale success

Tools

Case study

Lusaka – Local champions and national government alignment

Downloadable resource

CoM SSA toolbox
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Call to action

Establishing communities of practice to promote multi-level collaboration and engagement across tiers of government, civil society, the private sector, and academia is key to mainstream DRR and CCA into all aspects of urban planning. ICLEI Africa can support your city with brokering the relationships that are needed in this process. Learn more here.

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To go further...

ICLEI Africa can provide tailored facilitation, proposal development support, and direct funder engagement services as a paid package.

 

This is a free public guide (basic steps, downloadable templates) but we also can offer a Premium ICLEI member support or fee-services involved:

  1. Customised workshops or coaching packages.
  2. Hands-on assistance in developing funding proposals.
  3. Data overlays and climate risk dashboards tailored to their city.
  4. Deep-dive governance assessments.
  5. Facilitated validation workshops.
  6. Access to curated donor/funder matchmaking events.