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Inspiration Card
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G8 Strengthen informal networks through opportunities for exchange between key actors
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| Knowledge & Awarness | Political Commitment | Organisation | Perceived Costs & Benefits | Social & Environmental Justice |
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Description
The establishment of formal cross-sectoral bodies is a central starting point for breaking down silos in the municipality. However, informal networks are an additional factor promoting cross-cutting actions and establishing trust between actors. It is important for local actors to know representatives from other departments personally and be able to contact them directly to organise a meeting or discuss relevant points.
Potential Elements
- Spatially locating actors together (in some cases in the same building) to reduce the costs of interaction and facilitate ‘natural’ opportunities to interact
- Providing opportunities for municipal workers potentially interested in NBS and/or similar cross-cutting topics to interact
- Organisation of events (seminars, workshops etc.) to bring potentially interested parties together
- The provision of time and resources to municipal workers to self-organise