At the core of CLARE’s mission lies a commitment to equitable co-creation, ensuring climate research and solutions are shaped hand-in-hand with the communities most affected. Rather than imposing top-down approaches, CLARE works inclusively and collaboratively, listening to local voices and grounding projects in lived realities.  

Through these collaborative approaches, CLARE generates deeper insights and more effective, sustainable solutions. Co-creation amplifies community voices and strengthens resilience, making climate action more impactful and just. 

For too long, scientists, communities, and policymakers have spoken past one another. CLARE’s co-creation approach bridges these divides, creating spaces where dialogue flows freely. 

Bridging barriers of communication

Grace Oloukoi of the PALM-TREES project shares how CLARE bridges communication barriers: “Before now, scientists are speaking one language, the community is speaking another one, policy-makers are speaking another. But this project is a good way to bring all of us together, to listen together.”

This emphasis on shared dialogue is at the heart of CLARE’s work, knowledge is not created in isolation but through collaborative exchange. 

Sustainable co-creation labs

Co-creation labs are among the key methods being used across the CLARE programme to enable collective learning and co-design. These labs convene a diverse range of stakeholders to generate new ideas and craft solutions collaboratively. By supporting shared learning and co-designed approaches, CLARE ensures that no one is left behind.

As Japhet Kashaigili from the CLARITY project explains, these spaces are deliberately designed to be inclusive and open:

“Our framework of operation under the CLARITY project is through the Transformation Laboratories…We consider [them] a safe space that includes everyone – farmers, technocrats, decision-makers. We discuss together, because it is an inclusive space that brings everyone. There are no wrong or correct answers, only collective problem-solving,” says Kashaigili.

By creating spaces for dialogue and collaboration, CLARE demonstrates how equitable co-creation can drive meaningful progress toward resilience and sustainability.

Co-creation as a path to resilience

CLARE’s equitable co-creation approach demonstrates that resilience is not built in isolation. It emerges when scientists, communities, and policy-makers sit together,  listen, and craft solutions together. 

By breaking communication barriers, embracing bottom-up approaches, and fostering sustainable collaboration, CLARE is paving the way for climate action that is both effective and just.

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