🌐Peer Learning Networks
Global
Cities join networks that connect practitioners across regions to share experience, exchange practical solutions and strengthen global knowledge on resilience design and delivery.
How cities are applying it
- Communities of Practice—such as the R-Cities Climate, Health and Equity CoP, C40’s Cool Cities Network, Urban Flooding and Water Safe Cities Networks and its Urban Nature Accelerator—allow practitioners to compare what they are seeing on the ground, co-develop tools and surface effective strategies for evolving climate and urban challenges.
These networks give cities access to real-time insights, candid lessons and practical methods that formal guidance alone cannot provide. They support knowledge exchange that is grounded in lived practice and shaped by people working directly with communities and systems.
Why it matters
Climate and urban risks are changing faster than traditional planning cycles. Peer-learning networks help cities keep pace by offering rapid knowledge transfer, direct access to proven approaches and trusted spaces to test ideas. They strengthen professional confidence, reduce duplication of effort and help cities scale solutions that work.
Who is involved
• City resilience, climate and sustainability teams
• Planning, infrastructure and public health departments
• Technical experts and thematic working groups
• Global networks such as R-Cities and C40
• Academic and NGO partners contributing tools and insights