Resilience profile: Barcelona
The municipality of Barcelona and UN-Habitat, through the City Resilience Global Programme (CRGP), have been working closely over the past years to promote and implement Actions for Resilience at both the local level in Barcelona and in other cities across the world. Barcelona City Council is a pilot city for the City Resilience Profiling Tool of UN-Habitat. Barcelona not only played an essential role in the pioneering initiative to develop the complete CRPT methodology, but also contributed to the calibration of the tool by supporting other cities (i.e. Maputo, Mozambique, Dakar, Senegal) through peer-to-peer collaboration during the implementation process.
This transformative work, pioneered in the city of Barcelona, is essential to provoke a shift from a reactive urban culture to a proactive one. The resilience process in the city has resulted in calibration and progressive adjustments of the CRGP methodology and the Tool to make them more efficient and effective to apply. It has also provided findings, discoveries, and recommendations to the city of Barcelona that can be useful for others. The Barcelona Resilience Profile and the city’s SDG voluntary local review (VLRs) are now interconnected, underpinning the resilience diagnostic-planning process while allowing resilience policies and the impact of actions to be measured through local indicators and data. The insightful experience of Barcelona is shared within this report and it should pave the way for other cities to explore and lead their own urban resilience journey.