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Inspiration Card
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F1 Cross-departmental financing
NBS financing could be enhanced by promoting the communication, cooperation and cost sharing across the budgets of different municipal departments or cross-departmental budgets for the multidisciplinary interventions. The usual suspects of the cooperating municipal departments could be:
• Green and blue infrastructure departments
• Health department
• Mobility department
Herron Park in Philadelphia has been reconstructed from a largely concrete covered area to an urban park with recreational amenities and stormwater management elements. The Philadelphia Recreation Department and the Philadelphia Water Department have funded this project in relation to the municipal strategy adopted by the city for implmeneting the imporvements in stormwater management and water quality in local streams and rivers. This approach focused on using green infrastructure to change the city’s drainage and provide other benefits to the local community (source: (EPA 2017)