The approach to NBS takes place within an urban governance context which sets a particular context to its implementation. So, to speak of co-creation in URBiNAT means to co-create within a municipal governance context. Although citizens’ initiatives were welcome, it was predominantly participation initiated by the partners of the project that took the lead in URBiNAT. As they have been designed, participatory processes aim to raise the level of influence of citizens in the co-creation of NBS and, by doing so, leveraging a governance context into a collaborative governance setting.

By using the Interpretative framework of participatory processes and participatory municipal governance (Ferreira, 2022), this dashboard offers an overview of the main dimensions and components that emerge from the co-creation process of NBS. Based on the analysis of the culture and practices of participation in each city, the dashboard enables to roam

over the results from the research undertaken in the three front-runner cities of URBiNAT. A set of dimensions and corresponding components (see table below) according to the perspectives of the four typologies of actors that intervene in the co-creation process, and that are central in understanding participatory processes, are revealed.