Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN)

SCR Initiative Regional Consultation Workshop – SEA22 July 2010

Anna Brown Associate Director

The Rockefeller Foundation

RF Climate Change Resilience Initiative

RF Climate Change Resilience Initiative is a $70 million, 5-year initiative that seeks to shape and substantiate strategies to help people cope with the climate change that is already happening and will continue to accelerate in the next decades

To date, the funding has focused on developing and testing approaches to build resilience in: sub-Saharan African agricultureAsian urban areasUnited States domestic policy

Poor and vulnerable groupsUrbanization

Climate change adds a new set of challenges to existing urban poverty and poor urban development

•Possess few resources to prepare and plan for impacts;

•Have low capacity to respond to shocks and disturbances;

•Rely heavily on the climate for livelihoods and survival; and

• Live in areas exposed to climate extremes.

ACCCRN Overview

Vision: “ACCCRN aims to catalyze attention, funding, and action on building climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people by creating robust models and methodologies for assessing and addressing risk through active engagement and analysis of various cities”

Anticipated Outcomes:1. Capacity building of cities

ACCCRN cities will have improved capacity to plan, finance, coordinate, and implement climate change resilience strategies

2. Network for knowledgePractical and actionable knowledge generated in the program are shared and used by a broad range of actors

3. Expansion and scaling upThrough funding, promotion and dissemination of resilience building models generated in the program, ACCCRN will engage with potential sources of funding and technical assistance globally

Working in 10 cities in 4 Asian countries

ARUPTA to country/city

Partners, KM &dissemination

Thailand Environment

Institute

URDI

Program level

ISETCity engagement and capacity building TA to country partners, and dissemination

DisseminationAPCOCommunications

India

VerulemM&E

TARUGEAG

Mercy Corps

Viet NamIndonesia

ThailandCountry/City level

Intellecap*Private sector engagement

*Innovation Prize

* Related study/ project

ACCCRN Partners

TA, Dissemination

City-level actors

City-level actors

Nat’l policy actors

Nat’l policy actors

Activity Timeline

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Phase 1

India, Indonesia, Vietnam – Designing UCCR interventions and writing proposals, completing first draft of UCCR Strategic FrameworkThailand – Vulnerability assessments, sector studies selection

Phase 2

Phase 4 -

Phase 1 City Scoping and SelectionIdentify citiesPhase 2 City-level engagement and capacity developmentShared Learning Dialogues (SLDs), vulnerability assessments – community and climate, Sector Studies, Pilots, development of Urban Climate Change Resilience Strategic Framework and Intervention DesignsPhase 3 Implementation of urban resilience projectsPotentially spanning health, infrastructure, water, disaster management and preparedness, urban planning/development issues, policy incentivesPhase 4 Dissemination and ReplicationThrough networking and leveraging additional resources

2013

Phase 3

What is emerging from ACCCRN cities

A process to convene diverse stakeholders to build localized understanding of urban climate change impacts and a strategy to increase resilience

Specific measures to urban resilience that span multiple sectors

• Health• Infrastructure/Services• Water• Disaster management and preparedness• Urban planning/development• Policy

For more information:

www.rockefellerfoundation.org

ACCCRN Contact: Fern Uennatornwaranggoon