Co-designing in tandem: Case study journeys to inspire and guide climate services

This paper sets out to empirically validate and further refine the Tandem framework that has been developed to support climate information providers, users, researchers, practitioners and policymakers to collaboratively co-design climate services for adaptation. Three case studies in diverse settings show that Tandem has proven beneficial as a holistic, flexible, stakeholder-oriented, context-led and decision-driven approach for co-designing climate services with rich stakeholder engagement. The experiences from these case studies led to insights that underpin the updated framework outlined in this paper.

Highlights of this study include:

• Tandem embraces pluralistic stakeholder goals and values whilst enhancing trust.
• The reflexive framework addresses multiple preferences, goals, capacities and power dynamics.
• Tandem tackles research, policy and practice gaps across temporal and spatial scales.
• The framework explores governance at appropriate decision-making levels.
• Tandem considers gender, social equity and local knowledge.