Dialogues with Brazil.
August 28 to September 1 2023, Berlin, Germany
Overview
UrbanCare Dialogues are a five-day urban incubator to create investment-ready projects for health and well-being as the spearhead for sustainable development.
12 Municipalities from Brazil are invited to participate!
Local government representatives meet with urban health and climate advisors and development agencies for five days. Two days will build collaborations, and three workshop days will ensure proposals for streets and other public spaces are inclusive, green, and eligible for financing.
Output 1 integrates
SDGs 3, 11
Workshop 1 discusses the benefits of inclusive urban planning.
Output 2 integrates
SDGs 6, 11,
13, 15
Workshop 2 explores supportive green urban infrastructure.
Output 3
lines up requirements
Workshop 3 reviews how to make these plans bankable.
Workshop 1 discusses the benefits of inclusive urban planning.
Workshop 2 explores supportive green urban infrastructure.
Workshop 3 reviews how to make these plans bankable.
Output 1
integrates SDGs 3, 11
Output 2
integrates SDGs 6, 11, 13, 15
Output 3
lines up requirements
The goal
The UrbanCare Dialogues set collaboration for public space proposals to obtain financial approval and define work plans to continue working together on evidence-based urban projects.
The Dialogues create an environment for Gov and urban advisors to align goals, strengthen operations, focus resources, and establish agreement around intended results and outcomes.
What are the main results?
How it works!
1. A Municipality signs up here to the Dialogues and uploads two public space concepts. One on transportation and urban development, the second on urban environment and natural disasters.
2. Municipality representatives travel to Berlin and present their urban problems to advisors.
3. The advisors take notes and give input to all participants.
4. Municipalities form teams, and the advisors mentor a workshop to outline three documents:
The Project Profile; the Operations Development Proposal; and the Financial Proposal Draft.
How it works!
A Municipality signs up here to the Dialogues and uploads two project concepts. One on transportation and urban development, the second on urban environment and natural disasters.
2. Problem presentation
Municipality representatives travel to Berlin and present their urban problems to advisors.
3. Advisory
The advisors take notes and give input to all participants.
4. Team work
Municipalities form teams, and the advisors help outline three documents:
The Project Profile; the Operations Development Proposal; and the Financial Proposal Draft.
About the sessions.
Each Dialogue Day has a morning and afternoon session. In the mornings, to ensure that projects align objectives with strategies, effectively address needs, provide cost-efficient solutions, and undertake a sustainable lifecycle. The goal is to prepare robust draft proposals to submit for approval.
Under the building blocks age-friendly, green, and bankable, some project tracks encouraged are:
○ Children and young people’s spatial needs related to health and well-being,
○ Elderly spatial needs concerning health and well-being,
○ Inclusive transport,
○ Healthy streets as public spaces and/or green connectors,
○ Nature-based solutions with a health equity focus.
Morning sessions
Local Gov representatives present their urban problems and current situation with five slides. The slides introduce the sector and department, describe with data and stats pressing urban issues, relate to ongoing or possible solutions and technical synergies, and detail the execution and financial obstacles. Q&A follows, where advisors take note of the issues for discussion in the afternoon sessions. Downlod the slides here.
Afternoon sessions
Three advisors take the floor to address the problems identified in the morning setting out evidence-based guidelines, instruments, and strategies. After each talk, a Q&A allow Gov representatives to resurface their local issues in search of solutions.
After the Q&A, Gov representatives break into three groups for teamwork. The advisors take turns mentoring each group in developing their draft proposals.
Expected results
The main outputs from the three workshop days are the proposal drafts seeking financial approval. Several learning outcomes describe the collaboration across all participants.
are to renew knowledge for developing project proposals by taking practical advice from evidence-based planning and design approaches that increase cost efficiency.
for planning experts and researchers are to have greater insight into technical and financial obstacles that local governments undergo in developing and implementing projects.
are consensus to offer customized programs, frameworks, and resources to set up sound and realizable project proposals for each municipality. Furthermore, harness shared know-how to establish a transdisciplinary exchange of tools, methods, and communication channels useful for other municipal governments in Brazil and from countries of the region.
