WT4A Further develop and maintain partnership working

Achieving long-term adaptation outcomes will require effective partnership working, which needs an on-going effort to maintain and refresh arrangements. Also seek opportunities to integrate partnership working alongside your organisation’s mainstreaming of adaptation into its functions.

Sub tasks:

Review and refresh the strategic plans/ theory of change that guide partnership working
- You have delivered a significant level of joint working in order to achieve this level of maturity. In order to drive further change and benefit from lessons learned consider a review and refresh of strategic planning documents (vision/strategy/ theory of change).
- Begin with reviewing the impact of partnership working. This should include monitoring and evaluation from individual projects as well as engagement (interviews/ surveys/ workshops) with key stakeholders to gauge overall impact.
- Review vision/ strategic priorities/ outcomes – are existing priorities still relevant? Can you increase ambition? Are there any aspects of current strategy that are outdated?
- Work with partners and stakeholders to update the strategic plans/ theory of change and communicate changes widely.
Mainstream adaptation within partnership working, look for areas which you can influence partner activity to also include adaptation.
- Develop a proactive plan for mainstreaming adaptation across partner activities. This includes identifying opportunities for partners to support each other’s mainstreaming activities, for example by consistently advocating for adaptation to be included as part of cross sector plans, policies and projects
- Identify opportunities for partners to provide key input/ support for the inclusion of adaptation. This could be through formal consultation responses, sharing evidence to inform business case planning or by providing in kind technical and/ or strategy support for specific actions or policies.
- Identify added value of adaptation. Adaptation will have wider co-benefits that extend beyond just preparing for future climate change – highlighting this will help raise the profile of adaptation and show the benefit of taking adaptation action.
Develop case studies on the positive effects of joint adaptation action and where possible quantify these advantages.

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