CLEMM – Co-Designing Learning for Evidence-Based Climate Policy in Marmara Municipalities, Türkiye

In this framework, CLEMM seeks to strengthen municipalities’ ability to make the social, economic and spatial impacts of the climate crisis in cities visible, to analyse these impacts in a systematic manner, and to shape local policy priorities through evidence-based decision-making.

Starting from the recognition that the impacts of the climate crisis are unevenly distributed across urban populations, the project focuses in particular on areas where the needs of vulnerable groups, disadvantaged neighbourhoods and gender-based inequalities remain insufficiently represented in local policy processes. Accordingly, CLEMM promotes a multidimensional assessment approach that goes beyond environmental indicators alone and is grounded in social risks, living conditions and local experiences, with the aim of embedding this approach in municipal planning and implementation practices.

CLEMM provides a comprehensive framework that supports local governments in:

• Monitoring the social impacts of climate policies through regular and comparable data as well as field-based evidence,
• Addressing social inequalities and vulnerabilities at the early stages of policy design,
• Developing participatory processes based on co-production of knowledge with local stakeholders, and
• Establishing a learning-oriented policy cycle across implementation, monitoring and evaluation phases.

Based on the findings of an in-depth needs assessment  conducted with municipalities of Marmara Region a targeted learning programme has been designed in line with local governments’ priority capacity-building needs and demands.