Newsletter Fair Urban Transition Bengaluru I s s u e N o v e m b e r This newsletter series is brought out as a part of the Fair Urban Transition (FUT) Programme that promotes partnerships towards inclusive and fair climate action in cities across the world. Key to the programme is working with citizens and grassroots organizations to ensure that policies are developed fairly and inclusively and that they lead to a fairer transition. The partners of the FUT in Bengaluru are Purpose, Restless Development, and Mahila Housing Trust. This newsletter series communicates the activities, programmes, and interventions of the FUT in Bengaluru. We hope that the newsletters will serve to
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initiate and disseminate policy dialogues around and at the intersection of climate change, informality, and urbanisation processes intrinsic to the city. We envisage that these dialogues will point to innovative ways and means to foster a just and fair urban transition in Namma Bengaluru! In this first newsletter we share highlights of some of the key events and activities that happened in the last quarter and those planned for the coming one.
City Resource Forum, Bengaluru The CRF is anchored by Mahila Housing Sewa Trust (MHT) (supported by Integrated Design, INDÉ) and was conceived as a part of the FUT. The CRF is a coalition of diverse stakeholders working on and impacted by climate change, urbanisation, and informality and includes community members, technical experts, CBOs, and NGOs to ensure its inclusivity and sustenance. Going forward the CRF will include political representatives, city administrators as well as city level service providers. The CRF envisions to amplify the voices of urban poor, especially women, in the current context of climate change and urbanisation induced vulnerabilities, to nudge their inclusion in the city’s larger development goals by co creating advocacy tools and potential solutions.
CRF Meetings The CRF met twice in the past two quarters. The introductory meeting of the CRF was held on 15th July 2022 at the Courtyard, Shanthi Nagar, Bengaluru and was attended by 23 members from 17 city organisations. What emerged from this initial meeting was the identification of synergies, possibilities of co-learning and collaboration, and the potential of the CRF to emerge as a meaningful force that can work for the city. The CRF met for the second time on the 28th of October 2022 at the Bangalore International Centre (BIC) and was attended by 23 members from 16 city organisations. The thematic focus of the second meeting was the need for an inclusive ward planning framework.
A City Climate Action Plan for Bengaluru The Bangalore Municipal Corporation supported by the World Resources Institute (WRI) is preparing a City-scale Climate Action Plan. There is great interest from the BBMP to take the city climate action plan, being prepared by WRI, to the ward level. This is proposed through efforts like - sensitising Nodal officers on climate actions, seeking community’s inputs on the climate action plan etc. The CRF could potentially be a platform to garner data and experiences which can tie back to the city climate action plan.
1st CRF Meeting, Bengaluru Photo Credit: MHT
2nd CRF Meeting, Bengaluru Photo Credit: MHT