City Resilience Program

The City Resilience Program (CRP) is a partnership between the World Bank and GFDRR. Launched in June 2017 as a multi-donor initiative aimed at increasing financing for urban resilience, the Program is supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance, and through the Resilient City Development Program partnership with the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), and the European Union. CRP’s vision is resilient cities with the capacity to plan for and mitigate adverse impacts of disasters and climate change, thus enabling them to save lives, reduce losses, and unlock economic and social potential. The aim of the program is to catalyze a shift toward longer term, more comprehensive multi-disciplinary packages of technical and financial services, building the pipeline for viable projects at the city level that, in turn, build resilience. CRP pursues three strategic objectives to move toward this vision: 1. Providing cities with increased access to tools and technical support to effectively plan for resilience. 2. Facilitating cities’ increased access to multiple sources of financing to ensure that more investment in resilience come to fruition. 3. Enabling cities to leverage global partnerships to support their resilience objectives. CRP supports cities across three main thematic areas: Planning for Resilience focuses on providing technical support to ensure that capital investment plans are risk informed. Finance for Resilience zeros in on capital mobilization around urban resilience. Partnerships for Resilience concentrates on advocacy and convening global expertise. Together, these three thematic areas are key to helping cities address the resilience challenges of the future.