Technical solutions are key components that go into the planning, delivery and the long-term stewardship of Nature-Based Solutions. Concerning the technical component of the Connecting Nature NBS Framework implementation, the partners of Caucasian Hub team plan to:
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Reinforce the strategy of mainstreaming NBS in urban planning in the region.
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Attract other Caucasian cities and towns to think about NBS as a way and tool of building urban resilience.
The close cooperation with Municipalities in Armenia (Yerevan, Gyumri) envisaged scaling out the NBS "Green Wall for kindergartens" (see video and case study at Oppla) successfully implemented for one pilot case to be replicated and scaled out for other kindergartens. Teams still count on state funding from local state budgets and some funding from public charity organizations. There are also small crowdsourcing pilots of NBS-type solutions.
Caucasus partner GeoGraphic from Georgia intends in collaboration with urban and rural municipalities and settlements, as part of the baseline data collection for urban land use plans, to replicate the experience of citizens’ geosurvey trialed in Tbilisi, Georgia, results of which (see survey and results links) were demonstrated at and are available from the UrbanBytNature Caucasus Hub video stream. This simple to fill one minute geolocation based survey of citizens will inform target areas on potential urban hot spots where nature-based solutions could be prescribed based on Connecting Nature Framework and NBS Impact Assessment methodologies. Subsequent surveys in the same locales would be used to monitor the impact of the NBS implementation as prescribed by land use plans. Such plans are under development for various Georgian settlements