Appendix: Interview guide

• Short introduction from the interviewer
• Reason to why you are interviewed. 
• Remind and ask for consent to record the interview (this should be done before the interview starts) 

1. What is your role at the [organization] and what is your role in relation to the [programme/project]? 

1. Can you describe the programme? [Aim with these questions is to gather complementary perspectives in relation to what can be found online]
   1. What the programme focuses on
   2. Duration
   3. Purpose(s) with the programme.
   4. Funding (in total, per year)

2. In your words, could you describe how the programme targets sustainable urban development? 
   1. Can you provide some examples of how this is achieved? (e.g. projects that have received any funding).
   2. Is this programme linked to any national goals/objectives?
      
3. FutureBuilt: can you describe what the links to the state looks like?
   1. In terms of funding, involvement in the programme etc.
   2. If there is a collaboration, can you describe how that looks like?
      
4. Who are the actors you collaborate with in terms of [basically mapping the actors involved in the implementation of the programme]:
   1. the scope and focus of the programme
   2. in terms of implementing the projects
      

5. Are there any linkages with the programme’s focus to municipalities strategic work with spatial planning and comprehensive urban development tasks? 
   1. If yes, please describe those linkages.
   2. If no, is there any need to make linkages between a programme like this to municipalities work with strategic spatial planning and their overall territorial development?
      
6. How are the connections between the programme and the project you grant funding and the granted municipalities’ work with sustainable urban development?

Questions to municipalities

1. Can you describe what you as a municipality know about the overall goals from the programme?
2. What is your relation to the programme office after you have received funding? Please explain. (Do you collaborate, report, influence the programme after received funding)
3. Can you explain in your words how this programme is connected to green and inclusive urban development? Please describe.
4. What is the overall value of this programme from your perspective working at a municipality?

1. What is the specific case project about?
2. Is the project integrated into a wider and holistic urban development perspective in the municipality/region? (i.e. fits into the overall municipal spatial planning strategies)? Does the project support sustainable urban development beyond the specific funding from the central government/programme? 
3. How is the project (funded through the programme) connected to other visions, strategies, other programmes, and urban development in the city/neighbourhood?
4. How is the programme funding facilitating the development that is occurring now? (would it have happened otherwise?)
5. Project specific: Do you report or communicate with national stakeholders about your lessons learned from implementing the “programme and its objectives) in your project?
   1. How is that dialogue? (describe)
   2. Is that dialogue useful? If yes, Why and in what way? If no, how do you find the need to improve that dialogue?
   3. Is it important for you to have collaboration and influence national actors to support you in achieving national objectives in your sustainable urban development projects and targets locally?

1. Are there any ways where you as a municipality influence national actors (e.g. central state or national agencies) to support you in sustainable urban development?
   1. If yes, please provide examples of how, and also how the municipality perceive that influence.
   2. If no, ask if they see a need to influence national actors about this?
      
2. Are there any ways for you (municipality) to conduct dialogue with the state?
   
   1. Not only about the specific project/programme, but in terms of green and inclusive urban development, collaboration and measures to support that.
      
3. What are the local needs in your municipality for state support in green and inclusive urban development?
   1. How is that additional support connected to everyday task in spatial planning work?

1. Can you describe how you found the possibility to receive the funding from this programme?
   1. Were you invited?
   2. Did you take the initiative? (if not, who took initiative)?
      

2. How was the “application process”/the process that took place before you received the project funds?
   1. Can you describe which actors that were involved?
   2. Were there any specific goals/objectives in your municipality or other national objectives that. 
      
3. Why was this programme relevant in your municipality?
   1. How come you decided to apply for funding here?
      
4. How do you, as a municipality, navigate through funding and support from the state? Is that common practice, or extraordinary?
   1. If it is useful to be involve in programmes like this, how do you as a municipality organise in order to “find” relevant programmes?

1. In your view, and based on your experience with this and similar programmes, are there any needs among municipalities (and other local actors) for state support for green and inclusive urban development? 
   1. What are the specific needs? (provide examples)
   2. Are there any needs connected to strategic spatial planning or spatial planning in general?
      
2. How do you (or other state actors) gather the (local) needs in order to design programmes that support municipalities work towards sustainable urban development?
   1. If not, ask if that has been considered and why they don’t gather these perspectives.
      
3. Is there any regular collaboration between state and local actors (municipalities) to support one another in efforts towards green and inclusive urban development? 
   1. Please describe how that network looks like.
      
4. From your perspective, what are the biggest challenges among the municipalities in your country when it comes to implementing sustainable urban development?
   1. Are there any ways (funding, networking, other support mechanisms) that you as national actors/nation-wide stakeholders support the municipalities with those challenges?
   2. What other measures are in the pipeline?

1. Is there a need for further state support in green and inclusive urban development?
   1. What are the specific needs? (provide examples)
   2. Are there any needs connected to strategic spatial planning or spatial planning in general?
      
2. How should that support from the state be connected to strategic spatial planning visions in your municipality?
   1. Project specific: How is the project (funded through the programme) connected to other visions and urban development in the city/neighbourhood?
   2. How is the programme funding facilitating the development that now takes place? (would it have happened otherwise?)
      
3. From your perspective, what are the biggest challenges in your municipality when it comes to implementing sustainable urban development?
   1. Are there any ways (funding, networking, other support mechanisms) that national actors/nation-wide stakeholders can support your and other municipalities with those challenges?
   2. Do you know if there are other initiatives in the pipeline?