Local Governments’ Pocket Guide to Resilience

The purpose of this guidebook is to illustrate how cities everywhere - from Eastern and Southern Africa to Western Europe, to Southeast Asia, to the Southern United States - are responding to current and future challenges by thinking differently about how to strategically design, plan, and manage for resilience. The case studies presented here highlight the experiences, lessons learnt, and stories of resilience building from the perspective of local authorities and communities actively engaged in the programmes and initiatives led by the Medellín Collaboration on Urban Resilience (MCUR).

Launched during the World Urban Forum in Medellín, Colombia in April 2014, MCUR member organizations include: C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group; Cities Alliance; the Global Facility Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR); ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability; the Inter-American Development Bank; UN-Habitat; the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR); the Rockefeller Foundation; 100 Resilient Cities –Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, and; the World Bank Group