Urban Action Kit
The Urban Action Kit supports urban resilience activities in urban communities. It’s a quick-start, low-cost, DIY guide for local actors.
Urban Preparedness
Urban Action Kit English
This Urban Action Kit, includes a guidebook, a pack of activity cards, and videos. The guide and cards are available in 14 languages. Download the Urban Action Kit in English here: Available in Cards Books
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Webinar: The role of public spaces in informal settlements in building community resilience
Urban preparedness – The role of public spaces in informal settlements in building community resilience and Cohesion Presented by Andrea Panizzo, EVA Studio Watch the Webinar Recording
WEBINAR: Urban Preparedness – Informal Governance Systems in Cities
Informal Networks for Disaster Risk Reduction Presented by Rocio Carrero, Project Lead Researcher University College of London – UCL City Leadership Lab February 14, 2017
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What Makes A Community Disaster Ready? A Meta-Evaluation.
0Reports Reviewed 0Organizations Covered Over the course of 2019-2020, the American Red Cross commissioned a meta‑evaluation to explore what makes a community disaster-ready. This meta-evaluation examines 24 program or project evaluations, half of which were of American Red Cross community disaster preparedness programs, and half of the programs implemented by external actors. The aim of
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Urban Hub Small Grant Winners for Urban Community Resilience: Pakistan Red Crescent and Mongolia Red Cross
The Asia Pacific Urban Community Resilience Hub, is pleased to announce the winners of the 1st Urban Community Resilience Small Grant Initiative: Pakistan Red Crescent and Mongolian Red Cross. In September, Asia Pacific National Societies were invited to submit proposals for the 1st Urban Community Resilience Small Grants, an initiative to leverage community-based resilience, funded by British Red Cross. The
World Cities Report 2020
The World Cities Report 2020 convincingly affirms that well-planned, managed, and financed cities and towns create economic, social, environmental and other unquantifiable value that can vastly improve the quality of life of all. Urbanization can be leveraged for the fight against poverty, inequality, unemployment, climate change and other pressing global challenges. In this regard, sustainable
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Healthy Pandemic Resilient Cities
Most of the world’s cities have spent considerable time and effort enhancing their resilience against a whole host of threats and risks, particularly relating to climate change, extreme weather events and rising sea levels. But until now, the potentially devastating impact of a pandemic had not played a large role in collective thinking about planning,
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C40 Cities Agenda for Green and Just Recovery
The Global Mayors COVID-19 Recovery Task Force was established to determine how we can achieve a green and just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. This report sets out their collective vision for a green and just recovery and our shared principles for achieving it. We address the ambitious actions needed, together with examples from our
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C40 Cities Agenda for Green and Just Recovery
The Global Mayors COVID-19 Recovery Task Force was established to determine how we can achieve a green and just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. This report sets out their collective vision for a green and just recovery and our shared principles for achieving it. We address the ambitious actions needed, together with examples from our
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