Urban Resilience Planning Cycle An ICLEI Methodology (Post-COVID edition 2020)
The ICLEI definition of Resilient Development is “to anticipate, prevent, absorb and recover from shocks and stresses, in particular those brought about by rapid environmental, technological, social and demographic change, and to improve essential basic response structures and functions” (ICLEI Montréal Commitment and Strategic Vision). Therefore urban resilience may encompass many types of hazards, or […]
Pacific Resilience Honiara
ICLEI supports the island cities by providing streamlined processes for assessing their risks and challenges and developing achievable action plans. ICLEI has been working with Honiara City Council since 2016 to assist the City to undertake a disaster risk self assessment and action, using the Sendai Framework and scorecards, building capacity and supporting city leaders […]
Frontline Cities and Islands 2.0
While many island urban settlements are growing rapidly, climate change and increasingly frequent disasters are stressing urban systems. ICLEI promotes sustainable island and urban development through resilience and systems planning, clean energy, coastal fisheries management, infrastructure, innovative finance, ecosystems services, post disaster recovery and sustainable tourism. ICLEI collaborates with Mayors and leaders, through twinning of […]
Strategic Partnership for Implementation of the Paris Agreement in Australia
The SPIPA program supports our efforts within Australia and seeks to explore alignment and synergies with other national and subnational programs and offer a unified climate action methodology and reporting structure. The SPIPA Initiative provides a final report that may be used as a pathway for partnership describing the various roles of stakeholders and the […]
Pacific Resilience Fiji
ICLEI supports Fiji cities by providing streamlined processes for assessing their risks and challenges and developing achievable action plans. In 2019 ICLEI assisted 7 city and town councils to undertake disaster risk self assessment and action planning, using the Sendai Framework and scorecards, and built capacity for disaster risk reduction at 2-day workshops with these […]
Climate Communicators (formerly Young Writers Network)
ICLEI Oceania has posted a 'science communications toolkit' on the website, a collation of useful resources for sustainability students. Through the Young Writers Network students and graduates are empowered to become engaging communicators. Sharing evidence-based knowledge in credible and persuasive ways is paramount to the health of a mindful and engaged society, and is a […]
Making Cities Resilient 2030 Pacific
ICLEI Oceania: Conducted a desktop review of the outputs and outcomes of the earlier DRR workshops conducted by ICLEI and UNDRR in Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands Interviewed informants in the towns and cities of these islands, and also of other towns which had committed independently to MCR Researched relevant recent studies and reports […]
Global Covenant of Mayors Oceania
A GCoM Board Member was appointed in December 2021. The GCoM Steering Committee was established in late 2020 and has met on 4 occasions. An interim regional strategy has been adopted pending release of the new Global Strategy. At present there are 41 signatories in the region. A contract from Bloomberg/ECF was received in May […]