work closely with the local research institution, the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre . SLURC has played an essential role in curating spaces for continuous learning and relationship-building between FEDURP and community residents, including the formation of 'Community Learning Platforms'  for mixed groups of community actors  to build their capacities to address climate risk collectively. This is done by drawing on the data, agency and mobilisation potential of community organisations in informal settlements. In the coastal settlement of Cockle Bay at the western end of the city, uncontrolled traditional land reclamation  along the shores progressively exposed residents to perennial floods from tidal surges, and the settlement received regular threats of evictions from city authorities. However, residents have drawn on their climate risk knowledge and hazard profiling to self-manage a process of action planning resulting in a decision to prohibit further land reclamation. It also identified and demarcated an exterior boundary of the settlement and planned and constructed new drainage channels to carry away runoff water within the community . The community organisations have subsequently successfully negotiated with the
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