An analytical, systems-based approach to building resilience to climate change.
The Program
2009 – Present
Program locations: Piloted in cities across South and Southeast Asia
Partners: Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN), Mekong Building Climate Resilience in Asian Cities (M-BRACE)
Funders: The Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, The American Red Cross, and the Climate Development Knowledge Network
Overview
The Climate Resilience Framework (CRF) is an analytical, systems-based approach to building resilience to climate change. The goal of this framework is to build resilience that is capable of addressing emerging, indirect, and slow-onset climate impacts and hazards. The framework supports practitioners to go from assessing vulnerabilities and risk to identifying resilience strategies via an open, inclusive learning process.
This framework was first piloted with cities across Asia – as a part of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) – to build local capacity for climate change resilience. Based on this learning, the Climate Resilience Framework: Training Materials were developed to provide city stakeholders with the information and tools necessary to design a climate resilience strategy. The training materials are a set of comprehensive informational materials and activities structured as a 3-step guidance series.
What we delivered
Working together with our partners, ISET has refined the PERC methodology and conducted over 12 post-event reviews for floods and wildfire, in both urban and rural settings and in global contexts ranging from least- to most-developed. The methodology is currently being expanded to include reviews of extreme heat events.
ISET has also contributed to several summary reports that bring together insights from across multiple PERCs to inform disaster resilience globally, and has published learning from across the PERCs both in the gray literature and in peer-reviewed publications and books.
Key outcomes/results
- Developed a practical approach for holistically addressing local issues via clear, specific actions.
- Using this approach, ten cities in Asia produced resilience plans from which over 35 individual resilience project proposals have been written and over 20 funded.
