Welcome to step one, getting to know our partner cities. In the leadup to our first workshop, where each city will have a chance to meet the team and the other LGU participants, the CI + AECOM will already be hard a work digesting available data.

A crucial step is the Pain Points Diagnostic, a short survey that helps you cut to the chase, answering the main question: What is your city’s most pressing challenge?

Workshop 1 will be your chance to hear our understanding of your initial input, and help us refine the problem statement until it concisely reflects your crisis.

Once we’ve articulated the pain points of each city, common themes for solutions will arise, pointing to solutions that move the needle the most for each city.

We aren’t out to solve every challenge; that’s a road that each city has an opportunity to harness and empower stakeholders and accomplish over time.

We shall hold three separate workshops, with each city grouped with others based on the theme - coastal, watershed, river - that most likely will create the biggest impact for your city.

Once aligned with the potential solutions, and the science and rationale behind them, we’ll help each city identify the specific site opportunities in their LGU at a high mapping level.

Workshop 3 shall be a series of 30-minute check-ins with each LGU. This session will articulate the potential scale of the opportunity, the benefit, and the green-gray infrastructure intervention.

LGU shall end up with a diagrammatic map, with accompanying concept sketches, to form the basis of the final concept papers for each city.

The final workshop brings together the LGUs again for a final sharing of the accomplished concepts, in an inspiring round up of the diversity of solutions and collective scale of impact for the communities.

This becomes a dry-run and the first practice for each city to tell the story of the challenge and opportunity for environmental, social, and economic resilience through nature-based solutions.

But this is not the end; it is the beginning of each city’s journey toward a sustainable legacy for generations to come.