Strong policies and strategies do not automatically lead to implementation. Progress often depends on whether laws, institutions, incentives, financing, capacities and coordination mechanisms are aligned around clear objectives. Thriving Solutions helps governments, development partners and other stakeholders assess and strengthen the enabling environments needed to advance food and water security, climate resilience, circularity and Nature-based Solutions. Our work also supports the development and implementation of climate policies, action plans and institutional frameworks at national and regional levels.

We assess how policies, laws, regulations and standards support, or constrain, implementation. Our work includes:

• Reviewing policy, legal and regulatory frameworks.
• Identifying gaps, overlaps, inconsistencies and barriers to implementation.
• Assessing whether institutional mandates and responsibilities are clearly defined.
• Identifying practical legal and regulatory entry points.
• Developing policy recommendations, regulatory options and proposed amendments.
• Supporting the integration of emerging approaches into existing sectoral frameworks.
• Facilitating stakeholder review and validation of proposed reforms.
• Reviewing national, regional and international climate-policy frameworks and commitments, including the Paris Agreement, Nationally Determined Contributions, National Adaptation Plans and related climate agendas.
• Supporting the development of climate action plans, climate-policy frameworks and implementation pathways that translate commitments into operational priorities, responsibilities and measurable actions.
• Assessing how climate commitments can be integrated into food, water, agriculture, biodiversity and wider sustainable-development policies.

Many food, water, climate and environmental challenges cut across sectors and institutional mandates. Effective responses require clear roles, stronger coordination and shared accountability. We support in:

• Mapping institutional mandates, responsibilities and relationships.
• Assessing governance and coordination arrangements.
• Identifying institutional gaps, overlaps and implementation bottlenecks.
• Strengthening cross-sectoral and inter-institutional collaboration.
• Developing coordination mechanisms, roles and decision-making processes.
• Supporting participatory planning and stakeholder engagement.
• Strengthening institutional capacities and ownership.
• Designing governance, ownership and accountability arrangements for climate strategies and action plans.
• Facilitating structured climate-policy consultations involving government focal points, regional institutions, development partners and other stakeholders.
• Supporting regional cooperation, peer exchange and coordination around climate adaptation, mitigation, finance and implementation.

Promising solutions often remain at pilot level because the wider conditions required for adoption and scaling are not in place.

We assess the combination of conditions needed to turn policy ambitions into sustained action, including:

• Institutional capacity and implementation arrangements.
• Economic incentives and financing mechanisms.
• Public- and private-sector roles.
• Market conditions and business participation.
• Data, monitoring and accountability systems.
• Infrastructure and service-delivery requirements.
• Research, innovation and technology-adoption systems.
• Skills, awareness and behavioural change.
• Climate-finance readiness, project-pipeline development and the institutional conditions needed to mobilise and direct climate investment.
• Monitoring, reporting and tracking arrangements that allow climate plans and commitments to be assessed over time.
• The science–policy, data and knowledge systems required to support evidence-based climate action.

Based on this analysis, we help stakeholders develop practical recommendations, implementation frameworks, incentive programmes, roadmaps and action plans, including climate action plans, adaptation roadmaps, tracking frameworks and annual progress-reporting systems.

Thriving Solutions applies a systems approach that considers the interaction between policies, institutions, stakeholders, resources and markets.

We combine evidence review, stakeholder consultation and institutional analysis to identify realistic pathways for reform. Our work helps clarify what needs to change, who needs to act and what conditions must be established to support effective implementation and long-term impact.