Funding the unfundables: Long term solutions for delivering multi-benefit FCERM infrastructure

Anusha Shah Director, Jacobs; Chair, Thames Estuary Partnership

Paul MackieStrategic Funding Manager, Coastal Partnership East

Policy changeClimate Change

& Environmental

risks

Social changeEconomic uncertainty

Flood & Coastal

Resilience Sector

The unfundables: Why are we designing unfundable infrastructure??

LDA Design

Where are the FCERM disruptors? What will our legacy be?

Recommendations

Flipping the approach: Make it ‘Multi’ led

Nature-led: grey to support the green and blue

Place-based thinking

Challenge our current organisational structures

Cross-departmental thinking and funding

Dynamic Communication

Skills fit for the future

Recommendations

Co-creating with communities

Create an FCERM Disruptors Network

If we think ‘the multis’ and aim to create community value as an end point, we will deliver fundable infrastructure for the long term.

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