Resilient Recovery Framework

Today’s new normal requires models of governance that mitigate risk and respond to evolving challenges.

The Challenge

The Resilient Recovery Framework focuses on how to shape a more resilient, equitable and climate-friendly recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in cities around the world.

We have seen that applying a resilient recovery lens allows stakeholders in cities to identify actions that promote multiple co-benefits to the urban environment, its systems and residents. This framework builds on the City Resilience Framework. It enables decision-makers to prioritize investments that support equitable, climate-friendly and resilient local economic development.

The framework is organized around four main dimensions that categorize a resilient recovery: equity-centered; risk-centered; systems-enabled; climate-focused.

Cities planning for recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic have the opportunity to prioritize investment initiatives and projects that can address a multitude of interconnected urban needs, and which balance human life, the natural and built environments.

For more information, please download the Resilient Recovery Framework here.

News and Resources

Philippines’ Quezon City joins the Resilient Cities Network

Philippines’ Quezon City joins the Resilient Cities Network

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Taking an Urban Resilience Approach to Climate, Health and Equity: A Point of View

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Announcing the 2024 Global Risk and Resilience Fellowship Report

Announcing the 2024 Global Risk and Resilience Fellowship Report

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