Increasing resilience remains major challenge to achieving and maintaining sustainable development in many of the world’s cities. Urban areas are increasingly becoming centres of risk as a result of climate change, demographic shifts and insufficient and/or ageing infrastructure. Despite growing challenges, a lack of capacity at the local level remains by far the biggest obstacle to protecting more urban residents from disaster. Raising awareness, sharing knowledge and engaging in technical cooperation with cities are the major work areas of this Programme that touches all areas of city planning, management and functionality.
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Interview with UN-Habitat’s Raf Tuts on resilience building on Devex
"We need participation to mobilize the community to build resilience. The main issue is how, together, we can build resilient cities with resilient communities."
Mr Mourade Gueye, Secretary General Dakar City Council, Senegal
Soutenir la reconstruction de logements plus sûrs après une catastrophe - Planifier et mettre en œuvre une assistance technique à grande échelle - Résumé
Le domaine du logement regroupe un grand nombre d’acteurs, parmi lesquels les propriétaires et occupants, les différents niveaux gouvernementaux, les apporteurs de capitaux, les fournisseursde matériaux et main d’œuvre, et les organismes d’aide. Pour la reconstruction, le principal défi estde…
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Supporting Safer Housing Reconstruction After Disasters - Planning and Implementing Technical Assistance at Large Scale
Guidelines: scope and intended audience
These guidelines, aimed at decision makers and implementers across four main stakeholder groups (government, assistance agencies, the built environment sector, and disaster-affected communities), aims to increase the level of knowledge about…
Trends in Urban Resilience 2017
The publication’s purpose is to account for this unprecedented global momentum for resilience-building from an urban standpoint: inquiring the trends that drive the theory, investigating how these were gradually incorporated in development agendas, mapping the diverse landscape of actors involved,…
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City Resilience Profiling Programe – Volume 11
UN Habitat’s global Urban Resilience Programme includes the CRPP, an analytic approach transforming urban planning, development and governance to build resilient human settlements, as well as its normative work on network stewardship, including as recently announced the Chairing of the UNISDR…
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Apoyando la Reconstrucción Más Segura de Hogares Después de Desastres - Planificando e Implementando la Asistencia Técnica a Escala - Resumen Ejecutivo
El sector inmobiliario implica un gran número de actores, incluyendo los propietarios de las viviendas y sus ocupantes, el gobierno a todos los niveles, los prestadores de financiación, los materiales y la mano de obra, y las agencias de asistencia. El reto de la reconstrucción es habilitar a estos…
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Urban Resilience Series: Gender Equality Enhancer
Practical tool for local governments and city-level actors to understand the connection between Gender, Resilience and Urban Development with accompanying indicators.
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Leaving no one and no place behind
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As part of the Urban Resilience Enhancer tools, the programme has developed a Human Rights Enhancer to support local governments plan and implement human rights sensitive resilience actions.
As part of the Urban Resilience Enhancer tools, the programme has developed a Gender Equality Enhancer to support local governments plan and implement resilience actions in a gender sensitive manner and better understand the interconnections between gender and urban resilience.
The indicators and benchmarks used in the City Resilience Profiling Tool are sensitive to the specific needs of children, youth and the elderly and consider relevant issues (i.e. youth unemployment) in resilience analysis.
Sustainable urban development can only be achieved if persons with disabilities are included meaningfully in decision-making and are able to access their rights. UN-Habitat partners with representative groups and individual rights holders, as well as national and local governments, relevant UN bodies and civil society to maximize impact and to meaningfully ensure that the rights including accessibility and universal design of persons with disabilities are promoted, respected and protected.
Donors and partners
UN-Habitat is working with many of these partners to engage in training and awareness raising with local governments through online campaigns, fora, tool development, research and peer learning. These partnerships allow more cities to benefit from UN-Habitat’s tools, guidance and expertise.
