 The rapidly growing city of Vintuk in Namibia is grappling with the impacts of climate change, rising temperatures, falling dam levels and erratic rainfall, causing both drought and flash floods. Drought has led Namibia's president to declare a state of emergency twice in three years. Meanwhile, the rural poor are flocking to informal settlements on the city of Vintuk's outskirts that lack basic services such as sufficient clean running water, sewer management, electricity and solid waste disposal. People are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. For three years, Vintuk has participated in a project that uses learning labs approach to foster climate policy collaboration and to find ways to help Vintuk plan for and adapt to climate change. These learning labs provide creative, fun and safe spaces to share ideas, explore complex concepts and understand different viewpoints among the wide range of stakeholders such as counsellors, a member of parliament, researchers, representatives from the city of Vintuk Youth Organization, NGOs working in informal settlements, among others. One thing that really came out strongly for me is that we are all having a different understanding when it comes to climate change information. The way people interpret information, it's quite interesting and quite different. That's what I could pick up from these exercises. Early on, participants in the learning labs set a goal to develop and support Vintuk's first city level integrated climate change strategy and action plan. The learning labs have really increased the profile of the climate agenda in the city of Vintuk. We have gotten the politicians and decision makers on board and it has moved now climate change has been an abstract into a real mainstream issue for the city of Vintuk that affects operations of the city and now of the city in a collaborative manner. It's working together to ensure that all affected departments and so are pitching in to address the issue of climate change.