Resilience - Resilient cities acceleration initiative (action statement)

This initiative aims to accelerate the design and implementation of integrated strategies that strengthen the resilience of urban systems, thereby reducing vulnerability of cities and their inhabitants to climate and disaster risks and ensuring sustainable, equitable urban development. It intends to motivate National governments, together with partners from bilateral and multilateral institutions, private sector and civil society to support local action and boost ambition  to build the resilience of their populations.

The initiative lies on existing efforts to achieve its objective of rise the number of cities and partners committed to building resilience and to support the strengthening of governments' capacity to develop joint actions to reduce vulnerability, as well as the development of capacity and enhancement of the resilience of communities and community-based institutions in all city and urban-related initiatives and programs in order to generate urban systems that are not only resilient to shocks and stresses but also able to grow and flourish in a changing climate.