What we did
African coastal cities, particularly informal settlements, face significant challenges in building climate resilience due to a lack of proactive, adaptive, and gender-responsive planning frameworks. Recent extreme flooding events in Durban, South Africa have highlighted the need for co-designed, gender responsive and transdisciplinary approaches that can improve the capacity of local governments to plan for, respond to, and recover from climate hazards, while existing reactive measures have proven less cost-efficient and effective in building long-term resilience.
A key challenges is the need to bridge the knowledge-practice divide that impedes progress on adaptation to climate change through a number of impactful initiatives.
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How we tracked
Pathways to impact are clearly linked to the project aim, objectives, and research outputs, and relate closely to the Adaptation Research Alliance’s (ARA’s) Adaptation Research for Impact Principles. Impact assessment is based on qualitative data. R4I needs and
activities are linked closely to the Capacity Strengthening Plan
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What we achieved
Action statement
The project team worked together with local government officials and informal settlement community members to implement a Decision support framework (i.e. SECURe framework) which focuses on the importance of context analysis, with a specific GESI lens.Emphasis was on implementation and refinement of the framework for finding effective, contextual solutions for urban resilience.
The research outputs contributed to building proactive resilience in eThekwini Municipality pre-, during and post-event measures and long-term strategies, using the impetus and urgency instilled by the cities’ recent experiences with climate hazards. As ICLEI Africa supports African cities with technical assistance in adaptation planning through forums like the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA), they are well placed to support the scaling of the framework output across the region. This project builds on the INACCT Resilience project.
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