Societal tensions including conflicting interests and the positive climate action trends in society
Collaborate effectively with diverse rights holders and interest groups
Take risks
Anticipatory or futures-oriented thinking
Creativity
Innovation
Initiative
Creativity/Innovation Competencies
1. React/Follow
2. Act/Apply
3. Anticipate/Initiate/Enable
4. Lead/Strategize
Competency Title
Employ strategies to observe, ideate, reflect, build, and rebuild solutions.
Contribute to climate knowledge and capacity development
Apply design thinking processes
Apply entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
Competency Statement
Employ strategies to observe, ideate, reflect, build, and rebuild solutions to climate problems within own area of control or influence.
Contribute to climate knowledge and capacity development related to own role and areas of responsibility
Apply design thinking processes to own and team’s work and processes
Apply entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship to climate action, activities, and programs
Performance Criteria
Identify specific adaptation and/or mitigation problem to be addressed and design a climate adaptation or climate mitigation solution that meets community needs and intended impact
Incorporate the needs of multiple rights holders and interested parties in a solution
Build on existing climate action knowledge and practices
Contribute to knowledge sharing, climate action learning and action networks.
Encourage observation, ideation, reflection, building and rebuilding of prototypes throughout the design-thinking process.
Enable the design and implementation of climate action strategies, initiatives, and decisions.
Generate new information on climate action and climate action capacity
Collectively analyse, evaluate, and craft rich ‘pictures’ of the future related to climate issues and problem-solving frameworks.
Tap into the creative potential of affected communities or subpopulations to visualize alternative futures and generate solutions.
Engage in processes that allow for observation and information gathering, ideation, reflection, creation, and iterative prototyping (i.e., design thinking).
Enable experimentation and learning
Able to adapt new technologies and methodologies
Appreciate the value of feedback cycles for refining and improving ideas.
Incorporate feedback loops and tipping points.
Seek out relevant details and interconnections
Consider a range of possible solutions when designing and building projects, solutions, or systems.
Encourage and energize entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in climate solutions
Develop or look for new ideas or creative adaptation and/or mitigation solutions
Imagine alternative futures
Act as a change agent
Stand up and assume ownership of action
Creatively and pragmatically work within resource constraints (bricolage)
Plan and manage adaptation/mitigation projects with the purpose of achieving innovative and economically viable objectives
Engage with, pitch to, and secure funding from diverse investors/stakeholders
Put ideas into practice
definition
Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes. These are defined as things you need to know and be able to do, along with any personal characteristics, values, and other attributes required for the competency or competency area.
