Workshops
Transition management through repair approach is designed to evolve stakeholders from passive participants into proactive change agents, deeply engaged in shaping and fine-tuning existing efforts towards long-term sustainable goals.
W4C Way of working
Problem framing workshop
This initial phase involves stakeholders critically assessing their strategies and understanding their contribution to the larger goal. It involves a reflective examination of past and current efforts, helping to form a comprehensive definition of the problem. This step aligns stakeholders’ positions and capabilities and underscores the need for collaborative efforts. Preliminary fieldwork, literature review, and prior experiences with stakeholders’ aid in identifying critical actors and shaping facilitation techniques to uncover unspoken challenges.
Visioning workshop
This stage is focused on developing a relevant, integrated vision (e.g., for a water-sensitive city by 2060) by evaluating and synthesising existing city programs. It aims to provide a clear direction for immediate and medium-term actions, ensuring alignment with local cultural values and resolving conflicts or overlaps in the vision.
Repairing pathways workshop
Unlike the traditional Dutch Transition Management approach, where knowledge exchange occurs in later stages, our strategy adapts to the Indian context by tailoring existing projects and drawing insights from different cities. This modified approach facilitates the early exchange of ideas deeply rooted in local contexts, paving the way for sustainable partnerships, and developing feasible alternative pathways. exchange of ideas deeply rooted in local contexts, paving the way for sustainable partnerships, and developing feasible alternative pathways.
Detailing pathways workshop
This step involves backcasting from envisioned goals and integrating insights from various studies and stakeholder experiences. The focus is developing detailed, realistic pathways by adapting and integrating existing projects, ensuring they align with overarching objectives and have a transformative impact.
Learning and upscaling workshop
This ongoing process involves regularly reviewing the applicability and effectiveness of the implemented strategies. In the W4C programme, while not structured as formal workshops, few local partner institutions continued to engage with relevant actors, refining and enacting the developed pathways.
