Building Partnerships

if done well, partnerships help cities better anticipate and plan for future trends and challenges. As cities around the world emerge fully from the pandemic, they are faced with ever more complex urban challenges such as the growing impact of climate change, ageing societies, supply chain disruptions and economic uncertainty. These issues are exacerbated by conflict and geopolitical tensions, with each issue revealing itself to be more cross-cutting than previously anticipated. Given their longer-term implications, apart from the need to be agile in our interventions, cities must also secure the commitment, expertise and investments from stakeholders to develop sustained and integrated solutions. It is in this context that our latest edition of Urban Solutions spotlights the role of action-oriented partnerships in helping cities become more resilient against emerging issues. Partnerships proved critical—life-saving even— in our fight against COVID-19. The experience highlighted that solutions to complex problems do not lie within individual sectors or domains, but require stakeholders to come together, each contributing towards common goals and the greater good. If done well, partnerships help cities better anticipate and plan for future trends and challenges. For example, effective partnerships can help deliver middle ground amidst greater social polarisation and produce win-win outcomes. They can also mitigate developmental risks by pooling knowledge and resources to address new challenges arising from climate change or socioeconomic disruptions, and leverage co-creation tools to achieve greater shared value, in response to calls for new forms of collective decisionmaking in cities.

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https://www.clc.gov.sg/research-publications/publications/urban-solutions/view/issue-22