City-Wide Risk Assessment Report Template

Aynur Kadihasanoglu

November 7, 2025

The city-wide risk assessment (CWRA) report is part of the urban resilience programming process which should be reinforced through collecting and analyzing secondary data related to top shocks and priorities identified during the CWRA workshops together with the coalition members. If the National Society has the in-house technical expertise, this can be done internally. However, in many cases, the National Societies obtain external technical assistance in the form of hiring consultants or in-kind contributions from academia or other organizations.

Read about the experience of  the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society in carrying out a CWRA here.

Below is a sample outline for the report:

Section A:

Background

• Why is this city-wide assessment being done?

Objective(s)

• What is/are the objective/s to be achieved?
• Methodology of the city-wide flood risk assessment
  • Secondary data collection
  • Primary data collection (key interviews/focus group discussions/workshops, EVCA)

Section B:

Overview of the city

• Basic demographics and information
  • Population
    • Density (Informal Settlements highlighted)
    • Gender disaggregation
    • Age disaggregation (children, adults, elders)
  • Economy
    • GDP
    • Major Industries
    • Areas of economic growth and depression
    • Main sources of income for public
  • Disasters
    • Hazard Profile
  • Health
  • Urban growth
    • Growth Rate
    • Source of growth
    • Geographic areas of growth
  • Map
    • Geography of city
    • Political boundaries
    • Socio-economic status

Vulnerability Analysis

• Major shocks and stresses (Overview of results from Assessment)
  • Hazard profile
• Systems Vulnerability (Overview of results from Assessment)
  • Brief overview
  • From the assessment, write a section of the system identified – background, findings from the assessment, secondary data on it, risk to the system
• Vulnerable locations
  • Why are vulnerable – population – map of locations
• Vulnerable populations

Section C: 

City-Wide Flood Risk Assessment Workshop Tool findings and analysis

Part 1: Resilience of What

System Mapping

Interactions between core systems

Part 2: Resilience to What

Identifying shocks and stresses

Part 3: Resilience for Whom

How fragile systems affect communities

Resilience across scales

Historical, current and future profiles

Conclusions

Recommendations

References

Annex:

• List of participants
• Photos