Research will be carried out in four work packages:

• WP1: Assessment of ecosystem services and disservices – from urban green and water structures for low-income people. The goal of this 18-months long WP is to answer the secondary question/hypothesis one. The main findings of this WP are: availability by type of ecosystem to case study population; and levels of access/exposure to the derived services/risks. The findings will feed into all other WPs.
• WP2: –Mediating institutional structures – The 12 months long WP will start at month seven, and build on findings from WP1. Apart from answering/testing secondary question/hypothesis two as the main goal, analytical findings will become an important input for WPs 3 and 4. The main findings of this WP are: assessment of the nature of change (functions, quality and quantity); factors contributing to change; and actors promoting changes (direct and indirect agencies, their institutional arrangements, and their actions/inaction/mal-actions).
• WP3: The progressive institutional arrangements – The nine month long WP will start at month 13, and build on findings of WPs 1 and 2 and data from method 6 (all items). The goal is to answer/test secondary question/hypothesis three. The main findings of this WP are: assessment of wellbeing of the case study population sources from urban green and water structures and the roles that institutional arrangements play in this.
• WP4: Comparative analysis and impact dissemination – This will pull all data and analyses from WPs 1, 2 and 3 and will run throughout the final 12 months of the project. Cross-city and cross-country comparisons will be drawn and the overall research question will be answered. A significant amount of our activities will be disseminating findings to our key academic and development beneficiaries.