Here are some points emerging from this session on collaboration:
To make consortia work, we need to understand each other's operational constraints, including
- the red lines
- the limits of each organisation's influence
- and the practical constraints, such as travel.
Irene Amuron from the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre talked about agreeing the key ingredients:
"The saying usually goes 'too many cooks spoil the soup', but I like to say 'too many cooks spice up the soup'!
"Those spices can be a bit too much or too powerful, so we need to agree on what spices we put in; that's how a successful collaboration happens."
Stefania Giodini, Head of Water Climate Environment at NL Red Cross, emphasised the importance of starting with open conversations:
"When consortium members find each other on a common goal, having a conversation at the beginning on what they want to achieve, this is when the work comes together to accelerate the resilience of communities to the inevitable effects of climate change."
Annette McGill