WHY
A Regional Community of practice on urban nature, nature-based solutions and green infrastructure at large is of great importance for the East Africa Region for practitioners and governments working on ways to address the existing gap in adequate infrastructure and the challenges posed on cities by climate change coupled with rapid urban growth.
The RCoP for East Africa will help to foster experience exchange in using NbS, GI and urban nature as an alternative or addition to grey infrastructure solutions and to support the development of context specific policies and guidance towards using and scaling of NbS in urban planning and development of our cities.
OBJECTIVE
The goal of the RCoP is to build strategic and sustainable planning capacity at multiple levels (e.g. professional networks, private sector, government, civil society) consistently across a range of cities to integrate NbS, understand governance and finance, and implement green infrastructure at city scale across the region and continent. Secondly, fill the gap of lacking evidence of successful, inclusive, gender-sensitive and contextualized NBS at the local scale in cities. Furthermore, appropriate standards and regulations as well as guidance on how to build NbS in the African urban context are missing up to this date, therefore we see that the RCoP could contribute to developing such over time.
WHAT
The RCoP will provide a platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration on urban nature, nature-based solutions, and green infrastructure. It will focus on knowledge sharing, capacity building, and policy development. Proposed activities include;
Physical + virtual meetings
Exchange platform
website
Access to research + data
online library
Access to opportunities
funding/ tenders/ job opportunities
Exchange on technical challenges
thematic discussions and working groups
Connecting researchers
researchers profiles
Showcasing research results
access to theses of university students
Event calendar
conferences/ webinars/ technical meetings/ workshops, etc.
