MOBILITY

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Innovative Alternative Funding Mechanisms:

1. Blended finance - Blended finance is the mixing of private and public funds to a common scheme; the mechanism allows local governments to access development finance from various international agencies as well as philanthropic funds in order to fund initiatives that are designed to achieve specific social or environmental outcomes that are in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Blended Finance is also known as “outcome-based financing” , and is a critical instrument that can be leveraged to make long-term climate resilience investments such as the Living Shoreline, and Sponge Framework infrastructure. A robust data collection regime, as well as Independent evaluation and monitoring mechanisms need to be developed in order to take advantage of this funding mechanism.

2. Community Land trusts - A community land trust is a nonprofit organisation that holds land on behalf of a local community. The CLT is particularly useful as an entity that can ensure long-term stewardship of a landscape asset for the common good, and may be useful in the context of Community Groves and

Decentralised waste management centres, as the mechanism also promotes accountability and transparency. Local government agencies,too, can play a part in providing technical support and funding for the setting up of the CLT.

4.3 Serious Gaming

Toolkit for a collective framework:

The toolkit provides multiple water-based tools/solutions to specific issues observed along the canal in the layers of landscape, mobility, community, and governance. The tools and solutions are organised along scales, stakeholders involved, spatial typologies, cost, and carbon footprint of the interventions.

GOVERNANCE:

Figure 84: Tools for collaborative governance (Image Credit: Weaving with Water team)

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ECOLOGY:

Figure 85: Tools for Landscape & Ecological regeneration (Image Credit: Weaving with Water team)

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MOBILITY:

Figure 86: Tools for adaptive and integrated mobility (Image Credit: Weaving with Water team)

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COMMUNITY:

Figure 87: Tools for liveale community (Image Credit: Weaving with Water team)

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Participatory Process - SERIOUS GAMING:

The process-driven approach aims to co-produce site specific solutions in collaboration with the local stakeholders by using the design toolkit as part of a ‘scenario building game’ . With the basics in place, a thriving canal area is co-created with the concerned stakeholders by using the toolkit as part of a scenario building game. During the stakeholder engagement session the toolkit solutions were introduced through gaming sessions to make the different user groups be aware of the range of water-sensitive solutions available for sustainable urban development.

Figure 88: The tools are the basic units for participatory planning through serious gaming activities (Image Credit: Weaving with Water team)

Vision: Ensuring people are at the heart of any and all decisions pertaining to Kochi’s urban environment and also nurture effective inter-departmental coordination

Objectives:

1. To introduce the proposed sustainable urban design strategies for Mullassery canal redevelopment 2. To familiarize the stakeholders of the various tools and solutions proposed as part of the cloudburst resilience framework and canal edge master plan

Figure 89: Interaction with stakeholders through serious gaming tools (Image Credit: Weaving with Water team)

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Variants in gaming process:

The gaming process is devised as two variants anchoring to two different purposes. Variant 01 is focused on the tools for cloudburst resilience and Variant 02 is focused on comprehensive resilience tools across all 3 layers.

Variant 01:

Components included: Tools for cloudburst resilience + Tools for collaborative governance Desirable user group/ players: All stakeholders including representatives from government agencies, funding agencies, and citizens