City Partnerships Challenge Capacity Building Program Global Compact Cities Programme Presented by Michael Nolan 12th November, 2018

1. City Partnerships Challenge
Accelerating partnered projects that matter and attract investment

2. City Partnerships Challenge
Capacity Building Program
12 – 16 November 2018
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3. Key Deliverables:
1. Innovation Sprint
2. Exploration of partnership model
3. Develop Partnership Action Plan
4. Pitch partnership action plan
Overview of Week

4. Capacity Building Program Objectives
Build participant capacity to:
• Design partnerships with measured impact –
multiple benefits
• Develop partnerships with government, private
and civil society sectors
• Design partnership governance structures to
ensure ethics and transparency
• Design in self-sustaining revenue streams and
government enabling to attract partners and
finance

5. Innovation Sprint Agenda
10.00-10.30 Welcomes
10.30-11.00 Context and overview
11.00-11.20 Break
11.20-12.30 World café project engagement
12.30-1.00 Lunch
1.00-2.30 Open space and innovation sprint
2.30-2.50 Break
2.50-3.50 Innovation sprint and prioritisation
3.50-4.30 Report back on priorities & next steps
4.30-5.30 Networking drinks

6. Innovation Sprint
• 3 minute verbal introduction of your project
• Picking key topics from open space exercise
for innovation group(s) for your partnership
• Ask for details of potential partners that
others suggest
• Consider key barriers and opportunities that
you would like the students to focus on for
their hackathon work over the coming days

7. City Partnerships Challenge
Accelerating partnered projects that matter and attract investment

8. Welcome to Country
Ian Hunter
Wurundjeri Elder

9. Welcome to RMIT
Professor Calum Drummond
Deputy Vice-Chancellor - Research
RMIT University

10. Rules of Conduct for the Day
Rules of the game
Respect
Listening
Adding
Timing
Stories
Initiation
Treat confidential as
‘Sacred Business’
United Nations
Declaration of
Rights for
Indigenous Peoples
Principles for
Indigeneity
Not a one way path.
Needs to be a two
way path.
How can Indigenous
approaches and
principles help us?

11. Innovation Sprint Agenda
10.00-10.30 Welcomes
10.30-11.00 Context and overview
11.00-11.20 Break
11.20-12.30 World café project engagement
12.30-1.00 Lunch
1.00-2.30 Open space and innovation sprint
2.30-2.50 Break
2.50-3.50 Innovation sprint and prioritisation
3.50-4.30 Report back on priorities & next steps
4.30-5.30 Networking drinks

12. • Toilets
• Safety and Evacuation
• Team
House Keeping

13. RMIT-Guest wifi network
1. Go to wireless access on your device
2. Click on RMIT-Guest
3. Click on ‘Event’
4. Enter the code: 188014
5. Enter your details and agree to terms
6. Click the ‘Log In’ button

14. Video consent
We will be making a short (3-4 minute) video of this event.
It will be put online on 2 websites:
- the UN Global Compact Cities Programme website
https://citiesprogramme.org/ &
- the RMIT Entrepreneurship & Start-Up Association (RESA)
https://www.rusu.rmit.edu.au/Clubs/ENTREPRENEURS
No-one will be identified by name unless asked directly
If you do not want to appear in this video - please let Michelle
McGann know and she will provide you with an identifier

15. City Partnerships Challenge
Innovation Sprint
12 November 2018
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16. Innovation Sprint
Objectives:
• Test and expand project business
case with potential partners
• Innovate solutions to key barriers
• Prioritise solutions/changes
• Safe space to stick out your neck
Image: Shabnam Siddiqui

17. United Nations Global Compact since 2000
World’s largest corporate responsibility initiative = 9,000+
businesses

18. 18
INTRODUCTION
Cities are increasingly recognized as our
best opportunity to achieve the agreed
Global Goals for Sustainable
Development, and address the most
pressing Environmental, Social and
Economic challenges of our time.
‘Through an applied
process with the UN
Global Compact family,
build capacity of local
governments to
collaborate with private
sector and civil society to
create and implement
transformative
sustainable urban
projects that can attract
investment’

19. 2003 established by the Committee for Melbourne
and the City of Melbourne with UN Secretary General Kofi Anan
Where did we come from…
RMIT University has been host of the
International Secretariat since 2008
Applied ‘Collaboration Model’
for complex urban challenges
Grew to 100 cities by 2015

20. BC3 - Business Council
on Climate Change
San Francisco
Leading CS Network model -
uplifting impoverished
communities
Porto Alegre
World Water Hub
Milwaukee
Water Innovation -
technology, research
and culture
Leeuwarden
World leading social
urban transformation
Medellin
Sustainability, ED
Maori governance,
Rotorua
The original MM
Spiralling Utility Debt
Melbourne
City leading business
on procurement
Oslo
Industry led urban social
environmental sustainability
Jamshedpur
Regional Climate
Change Adaptation
with 10 councils,
Port Phillip Bay
‘Angra Doce’ -
sustainable
tourism
São Paulo &
Paraná
Puerto
Rico
The Kawasaki Compact -
partner with
industry
Kawasaki

21. • 150+ Expressions of Interest from 40+ countries
• Applications from cities, regional government, business, civil society organisations
and international agencies
Where we are now?
1. City and partner recruitment
2. City partnerships process
3. Applied research to accelerate formation of partnered ventures
4. Self-sustaining Local Delivery Teams
City Partnerships Challenge

22. Where are we going?

23. City Partnerships – Grow Partnered City Projects

24. City Partnerships – Grow Partnered City Projects
Stage 1 Business Case Development

25. City Partnerships – Grow Partnered City Projects
Stage 2 Partnership Formation

26. City Partnerships – Grow Partnered City Projects
Stage 2 Partnership Formation
Innovation Sprint

27. Innovation Sprint Process
Activity 1. World café project engagement - get to explore each project
Activity 2. Open Thinking - quick exercise to get your brain working
Activity 3. Open Space - allow you to shape the focus of innovation
Activity 4. Innovation sprint - world café style
Activity 5. Prioritisation - what are the most important outcomes
Activity 6. Report back - summary of priorities

28. Activity 1. World café project engagement -
get to explore each project
Image: Jane Mullett
Image: Jane Mullett

29. Activity 1. World café project engagement -
get to explore each project
Image: Jane Mullett
• We sort out which project you will start at
• Receive summary of project then explore
challenges and solutions by asking questions
• 20 minutes to explore then move to next
project (Project 1 group moves to Project 2
and Project 5 moves to Project 1)
• Receive quick summary of project and
previous discussion then add to exploration
• Then move to next project after 15 min

30. Lunch
Image: Tata Steel

31. Activity 2. Open Thinking - quick
exercise to get your brain working
Image: Jane Mullett

32. Activity 2. Open Thinking - quick
exercise to get your brain working
Image: Jane Mullett
• Get a pen ready and a sheet of paper
• When I say GO – write down as many
uses for a paper clip as you can.
• You will only have 2 MINUTES
• Adjust your mind to not filter or judge
what you come up with
• DO THIS EXERCISE IN SILIENCE
• Aim for 20 things/uses

33. Activity 3. Open Space - allow you to
shape the focus of innovation
Image: Jane Mullett

34. Activity 3. Open Space - allow you to
shape the focus of innovation
Image: Jane Mullett
• Get a pen ready and sticky notes
• I want you to think about what you would like to focus
your innovation attention on for each project
• When I say GO – write down a topic or challenge or
opportunity or innovation statement for each project
• You will only have 10 MINUTES
• Write only one innovation focus on each sticky note
• Do as many sticky notes as you have time for but try to
write something for each project
• DO THIS EXERCISE IN SILIENCE

35. Activity 4. Innovation sprint
Image: Kai Nolan – It is OK to be out there throwing stuff around

36. Activity 4. Innovation sprint -
world café style
Image: Jane Mullett
• Project leaders sort through sticky notes and
select focus areas for innovation sprint
• Gather at your 1st Project group to commence
• Open brain storming around focus areas – no
wrong answer – do 1st circle of group so everyone
can comment, then do 2nd circle then free
discussion.
• Explore how these innovations could work.
• You will have 25 MINUTES on first group then
move to next project

37. Activity 5. Prioritisation - what are the
most important outcomes
City Partnerships Challenge - Steering Committee

38. Activity 5. Prioritisation - what are the
most important outcomes
Image: Jane Mullett
• You will get 10 dots
• You can only put 2 dots per project
• Put the dots next to a statement that you
think is the most important (or most
innovative)
• You will have 15 MINUTES to do all 5 projects

39. Activity 6. Report back -
summary of priorities
• Report back on priorities for each project
• 5 minutes per report
Image: Kai Nolan – Almost there

40. Networking Drinks & Food
• Thank you for your efforts
• Please follow up with each other
• How can you help?
Image: Shabnam Siddiqui

41. www.citiesprogramme.org