ClimaGen will demonstrate how climate-resilient regeneration and renaturing for, by, with vulnerable neighbourhoods can help cities and regions in their transitions towards climate neutrality. Nine cities across Europe will implement or plan re-greening measures, use and share local knowledge, experience and creativity in the path towards climate-neutral, resilient, sustainable, inclusive (for all species) and beautiful urban public spaces, in line with New European Bauhaus. The project has the ambition to contribute to several medium and long term effects at the societal level having climate mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity and people-centered co-creation as the bottom-lines that the actions are intended to address. To secure a good path to change, documenting and learning from the project actions, the impact pathways are co-designed to support this intention. Impact Pathways describe the hows, the step-by-step process of change.
This deliverable is the updated version of the impact pathways methodology, adapted to ClimaGen, as a framework to guide the work of capturing, documenting, monitoring and evaluating the impact at both levels: across the project and at the cities levels. Earlier contributions from partners and cities were collected through two workshops and a follow-up survey. Additional contributions and refinements came via two in-person workshops and other processes (mostly observations and discussions in overall project monthly meetings).
This report includes:
An updated introduction to the project pathways (chapter 1): what are expected results, outcomes, and impacts, what pathways are, in general, and how they were preliminary framed for ClimaGen.
An approach to impact pathways co-creation (chapter 2): how the project works to update and co-create impact pathways throughout the project duration, with transversal partners and the cities (section 2.1). The approach is translated into an impact pathways toolset (section 2.2), namely workshop formats and tools to clarify the vision and plan actions towards the desired outcomes (pathways).
Resulting updated pathways (chapter 3): updated results from the application of the impact pathways co-creation approach, including envisioned qualities for the future of the area and status of the pilot against a set of defined critical actions. This is an overarching cross-city description prepared with a process-oriented monitoring intention.
Reflection on the next steps of this work (chapter 4).
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