Urban Resilience Programme Risk Reduction Unit Annual Report 2017

For UN-Habitat’s Urban Resilience Programme, 2017 brought important advances both in the growth of the City Resilience Profiling Programme and, more specifically, in the development and implementation of the City Resilience Profiling Tool (CRPT). We welcomed new partners to our table and were equally invited to new spaces for discussion and action to work towards our knowledge, cooperation and advocacy objectives with friends and counterparts. Our main urban resilience tool, the CRPT, is now market ready. We are currently testing and calibrating in a number of cities across the globe but results thus far are promising. The Tool is revealing vulnerabilities in the pilot cities and provides clear actions to address them in a way that local governments can understand and implement. Progress in the area was possible thanks to over 100 experts, specialists, support personnel and focal points who have shaped (and continue to shape) the final product with their knowledge and expertise. Development was accelerated in 2017 thanks to Making Cities Sustainable and Resilience Action, a project financed by the European Commission (DEVCO) and implemented in collaboration with UNISDR. Ongoing support and commitment from the City Council of Barcelona and the Government of Norway have also allowed our work to reach new audiences and be more effective. Joint initiatives with private firms like Axa Insurance Company have been also an essential component of this 2017. Finally, we also focused on the creation and the pre-launch of the Urban Resilience Hub, an open online platform meant to gather the latest thinking and initiatives on resilience.