Facilitation and engagement |
Future Earth has long experience of facilitation and engagement. We have led many projects and programs which require careful sourcing, selecting and engaging of stakeholders across sectors and at every level, from grass roots community organisations to government officials; from product /service innovators to City Hall officials, from volunteers to financial investment banks.
We pride ourselves on being able to create solid, lasting and productive relationships through the ability to really translate the ideas of our clients in a way that is easily understood. Its the way we listen and engage using a friendly, open personal touch coupled with a professional tenacious attitude to building coalitions. Collaboration is central to the way we work. We have introduced complex technical systems to governments, new financing mechanisms and policy instruments for change. We have facilitated and/or MC'd numerous high-level workshops with senior government and private sector officials, and led workshops and capacity building exercises with grass-roots communities, CSO staff, INGO management and research technicians. Use of advanced multi-media communications is a strength. |
FCO Smart Sustainable Cities
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"Everybody says they've really learnt a huge amount... we've had cities from A - Athens to Z - Zagreb here... we're really delighted to see it's been so productive and are looking forward to taking it further" says Caroline Wilson.
Future Earth Ltd designed and delivered the inaugural Smart Sustainable Cities Initiative on behalf of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Working with a small consortium of partners including ICLEI-Europe, we developed a short program to bring 30 EU cities together with 14 UK cities and their associated business partners for knowledge and experience exchange in Bristol and London.
With two 2-day workshop tours, web portal, Slack channel, case studies and more cities working to deliver smart and sustainable solutions shared their knowledge and expertise across 8 thematic areas:
With two 2-day workshop tours, web portal, Slack channel, case studies and more cities working to deliver smart and sustainable solutions shared their knowledge and expertise across 8 thematic areas:
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DfID Future Cities AfricaFunded by DfID, Future Earth Ltd designed & delivered the Stakeholder Engagement Strategy and technical capacity building programme for our client in support of the Cities Alliance-led Future Cities Africa project to improve urban resilience to climate change, social and economic shocks in African cities..
Aim was to create enabling environment for uptake of integrated resource tools and technologies for city planning, management and investment decision-making with focus on the water and waste sectors. Outcome was a DFID A-rating 
Outputs: resilience.io prototype; x2 peer reviewed articles by partners Imperial Collage; x2 high level workshops >80 participants, x8 2-hour capacity building webinars with international experts for >30 technical staff from Ministry of Local Government, National Development and Planning Commission, University of Ghana, Local Government and Private Sector stakeholders with raft of supporting materials.
Example resilience.io dashboard
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Pyxera Global Service Corps for JP Morgan ChaseFuture Earth Ltd worked with the excellent Pyxera Global based in Washington DC, to implement their first UK Service Corps program for JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) targeting the poorest, marginalized communities of East London.
The Service Corps is a skills-based volunteer program placing high-performing employees into local NGOs, where their financial and other skills are put to use for the benefit of the recipient charity. For example, business and financial planning, investor pitches or organisational efficiency reviews. JPMC employees experience first hand the harsh, on-the-ground realities facing civil society organisations and their most needy customers and use this insight to improve their own skills. Future Earth Ltd developed the Scope of Works for JPMC, hand held their employees during their placements and helped build ongoing collaboration between the two sectors. 
Energy Saving Trust E-StepsEmployee engagement is critical to many corporate CSR programs. Future Earth researched and developed the first of its kind interactive ‘E-STEPS’ domestic carbon reduction engagement tool for the Civil Service South East (concept, tender, design, pilot, test and deliver), and to recoup cost, successfully sold on to BT and Co-op on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust.
Catholic Relief Services, GhanaFuture Earth built internal capacity for (i) Natural Resource Management (NRM) and (ii) collaborating with the private sector. Both projects used participatory workshops for program management staff and a series of individual face-to-face sessions encouraging staff to examine programmatic priorities, exploring existing touch points with the private sector and how these might be levered or gaps filled to increase private sector collaboration and/or investment into the CRS programs.
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