Abstract

Planning for climate change resilience is one of the most complex challenges that cities face at present. Creation of functional multi-stakeholder collaborations is a critical component in a city’s resilience effort. The disaster-prone city of Surat has developed effective working collaborations in the area of public health post the 1994 flood and the subsequent plague outbreak. We studied the institutionalised multi-stakeholder collaboration Surat Climate Change Trust (SCCT) and other collaborative efforts. By thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with key informants, such as officials of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), SCCT members, academics, and citizens, we have identified operational, situational and cultural enablers of such collaborations. Understanding these enablers has significant policy relevance to help design interventions that nurture multi-stakeholder collaboration in cities.