A practical guide to using co-production for NbS

Step 7. Upscale Guidelines Connecting Nature

This guidebook offers a practical  approach and toolbox for designing and implementing your own co-production processes. It presents co-production as  a new governance approach for working  on nature-based solutions in cities and  offers a practical framework for designing your own co-production approach. The guidebook focuses on nature-based solutions, though co-production can be employed to address any urban challenge that asks for a produced output.

The guidebook is written to support urban planners and policymakers, but is also interesting for others thinking about implementing nature-based solutions in cities. For example, NGOs that are involved in the scaling of nature-based solutions  can also use this manual to set up a  co-production process.

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