The Challenge:
CLIMAR is a UKRI funded network that examines the relationship between Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), climate change, pollution, biodiversity, and other drivers captured by the planetary boundaries concept. Its overall aim is to find transdisciplinary solutions to reducing AMR infections while promoting innovations for alternative treatments.
As a new network, CLIMAR faced two main challenges. Firstly, explaining its purpose in a succinct and accessible way; and secondly, with a membership of 260 organisations, building buy-in and establishing clarity on the desired outcomes and impact achieved through the network.
The Work:
The first task was to understand the main challenges and opportunities in the AMR space, and what a network like CLIMAR could do to accelerate progress. Skating Panda interviewed a range of stakeholders across industry, science and academia, and governmental organisations to generate insights that would serve as a springboard into discussing outcomes and impact.
We then conducted a co-creative, half-day workshop with the network leads to discuss these findings, before work collaboratively to hone a series of desired outcomes for the network, as well as an all-important impact statement: a single sentence encapsulating CLIMAR’s mission.
With a set of agreed outcomes, Skating Panda then coached the CLIMAR team, via two working sessions, to determine specific metrics and measurement techniques so that the network could both prove and improve its impact.
The Impact:
The network is now able to articulate the unique change it will bring about in the world, and the outcomes it will accomplish to achieve that change. In a field dominated by technical language and semantics, having a clear, rallying cry for the network will enable it to raise awareness of the Planetary Health Framework and build a movement.