How is the community-based organization/frontline communities audience important to IMT and your work? by IMT

Grounds it in local priorities

2022-09-27 14:11:28 UTC

Allows an opportunity for IMT to support beyond just technical assistance to uplift and advance other community priorities

IMT strives to serve communities and advance their priorities.

cliff18 — 2022-09-27 14:11:40 UTC

Critical feedback channel

2022-09-27 14:11:47 UTC

It's a critical feedback channel to ensure we're not doing harm to communities in work across the organization.

Equitable BPS, and other policies, are not possible without CBO ownership and support.

2022-09-27 14:11:49 UTC

Are we really doing our job if we are not addressing the needs of CBOs and frontline communities?

2022-09-27 14:11:50 UTC

Key audience for impactful policy solutions

2022-09-27 14:12:08 UTC

Communities will allow our policy recommendations to address more short-term needs.

Consulting these groups and engaging in good faith, ongoing conversations with them helps us deliver better policy solutions that can help combat historical injustices

2022-09-27 14:12:11 UTC

Important because...

2022-09-27 14:12:17 UTC

People who are on the front lines of climate change are experiencing big impacts and big problems. And thus, they can articulate what the problems are and have keys to the solutions!

Community-based climate solutions

2022-09-27 14:12:18 UTC

If we want to successfully decarbonize the economy, we know that the best and most effective solutions will come from frontline orgs, who are most directly impacted. We should follow the lead of CBO partners

I know a lot of people close to me living in what would be considered a frontline community, and doing work that would directly help them in the face of climate change is very important to me.

2022-09-27 14:12:19 UTC

Provide directrion

2022-09-27 14:12:30 UTC

I'd like to see IMT's DC-focused policies be more in dialogue with community. That likely means building relationships.

2022-09-27 14:12:32 UTC

Good policy comes from the people who are most directly affected by the challenge the policy is trying to solve. Centering CBO and frontline community perspectives, and sharing power throughout the policy creation process, builds strong, effective policy

Provide business opportunities to those that have historically been barred from those opportunities

2022-09-27 14:12:36 UTC

Most affected by climate change and systematic racism so has important lived experience for us to take into account in our work

2022-09-27 14:12:45 UTC

2022-09-27 14:13:36 UTC

It's important to demystify technical speak so that frontline communities can advocate for solutions that will serve their immediate and future needs.

Power shift

2022-09-27 14:14:00 UTC

The community engagement framework gives us guidance for how to balance out some of the power dynamics among our stakeholders and elevate the CBO and frontline priorities

2024-01-15 15:19:24 UTC

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