Lightning talks presented by researchers from around the country that highlights the challenges they experienced with stakeholder engagement in FEWS projects and lessons learned from engagement. This specific presentation discusses the InterACTWEL project that aims to empower ruler-urban communities in watershed. The project coordinates and plan adaptation strategies for responding to stresses and changes to water, energy, and land resources By providing data-driven services for FEW actors to simulate, visualize, evaluate, and share multi-sectoral adaptation actions that reduce their vulnerability to stresses. The presentation highlights how the project enables stakeholder driven processes in adaptation planning as well as touching on the co-production of knowledge in these settings. It further highlights conceptual systems and workflow vision as well as lessons learned and future directions of the project.