Practical Implementation Guide on Mission-oriented Approach

The Urban Transitions Pathways review series aims at supporting Urban Transition Mission (UTM) cities globally in providing additional instruments to strengthen their approach towards climate neutrality. Built by experts of the UTMC consortium, the practical implementation guides aim at helping staff in each UTM city in shading the light on selected high impact, holistic methodologies and providing them with instruments to strengthen their approaches towards climate neutrality. The current guide provides an overview of the Mission-oriented Approach (hereinafter “MOA”), which has been explored and developed in a number of projects and programmes around the world, with the main objective of reaching a given objective in the shortest possible amount of time. The mission-oriented approach takes its roots from the NASA Moon Missions of the 60s and 70s and has been widely implemented in the medical research sector, and nowadays in the sustainability sector, for high-impact, result driven governance methodologies aimed at producing transformative change.