Nature is a critical component to scaling up climate change adaptation and resilience. However, financing mechanisms are needed to mainstream approaches such as Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), which is the operationalisation of nature-based solutions for climate adaptation, to reach the communities who need them the most. A recent session at CBA15 discussed challenges of scaling up and financing EbA in Africa, with a focus on the role of innovation.
In March’s partner blog, we talked to Jesper Hornberg who leads GRP’s incubator work. We also highlight a number of partners who previously participated in GRP challenge competitions and how the incubator influenced their work.
As the Resilience Measurement Community of Practice (RMEL CoP) transitions into the Resilience Knowledge Coalition, we offer three key contributions of resilience measurement in the past decade, and three challenges to advance resilience practice in the decade to come.
Race to Resilience is a campaign that aims to catalyse a step-change in global ambition and action for climate resilience, putting people and nature first in pursuit of a resilient world where we not only withstand climate shocks but thrive in spite of them.
PreventionWeb is a collaborative knowledge sharing platform on disaster risk reduction (DRR), managed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). The site offers a range of knowledge products and services to facilitate the work of DRR professionals. PreventionWeb features content that helps DRR stakeholders better understand disaster risk and learn from the implementation of DRR strategies, policies and measures.
The City Resilience Index provides a holistic approach to diagnosing a city's resilience, structured around four dimensions (leadership and strategy, health and wellbeing, economy and society, infrastructure and environment) and 12 goals (e.g. diverse livelihoods, social stability and continuity of critical services). The measurement measures relative performance over time rather than a comparison between cities. It aims to open dialogue and knowledge sharing between city stakeholders for policy change as the tool application facilitates them to identify their strengths, weakness, and priorities for action. It has a set of 52 indicators which are assessed through 156 questions. Those indicators stack up against the 12 goals (e.g. indicators 'for diverse livelihoods' include 'the degree of relevant skills and training'). This tool is a highly operational approach that lends itself to measuring the resilience of cities to diverse shocks and stresses.
The tool comprises a set of indicators, variables and metrics that cities can use to measure their resilience and compare their performance over time. The methodology has focussed on credibility and usability to ensure that the Index is technically robust, based on evidence of what contributes to city resilience and current best practice in urban measurement. The key research activities include an extensive literature review, desk study, expert consultation, and city engagement. The measurement involves converting qualitative (or subjective responses) to the 156 questions into numerical scores that can then be aggregated to communicate key strengths and weaknesses based on the 12 goals. Quantitative analysis is needed to serve as an effective proxy for performance toward certain indicators (e.g., the coverage of transport access).
Climatelinks is a global knowledge portal for USAID staff, implementing partners, and the broader community working at the intersection of climate change and international development. The portal curates and archives technical guidance and knowledge related to USAID's work to help countries mitigate and adapt to climate change. The aim of this portal is to improve climate change and development programming, amplifying the impact of USAID's investments into the future. The hope is that Climatelinks becomes a place for development practitioners to help identify and refine practices, and to inform USAID's technical direction in areas of information gaps. The [Resources](https://www.climatelinks.org/resources) and the [tools](https://www.climatelinks.org/tools) section provides access to a searchable database of useful material and tools.
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