What we are doing
ICLEI Africa’s Fortitude Initiative builds climate resilience at the local level by supporting towns, cities, municipalities and regions to strengthen their disaster risk reduction strategies and action plans, and enhance their implementation. By first assessing local needs, we create space to co-develop and co-produce relevant solutions and mobilise resources to improve future disaster response. Fortitude focuses on supporting local government through 5 main building blocks: i) Advocacy - to reshape the global disaster risk reduction landscape to ensure cities and subnational governments are recognised, capacitated, engaged and able to mobilise resources in the face of more frequent and intense climate shocks; ii) Networking - enables engagement across government tiers and between local governments facing similar challenges, with a spirit of openness, honesty, and inclusivity, allowing the space for context-relevant solutions to emerge; iii) Technical - assist local governments to develop disaster risk reduction action plans and preparedness mechanisms, risk and vulnerability assessments and adaptation plans; iv) Finance - empower subnational governments to access, mobilise and use new and existing resources from local budgets and national and international funds, both from public and private sources; and v)Implementation - identity and strengthen the mechanisms, approaches and competencies needed to implement a holistic and integrated disaster risk reduction strategy that builds local level resilience. In doing so, African cities are working toward international commitments such as the Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Framework and Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want.
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