Urban Resilience Training Series

Between 2019 – 2020, EAS co-hosted two workshops for two Chinese cities to raise awareness of urban resilience with specific focuses on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction among local officials. The workshops were structured in sessions of concept and tools introduction. Assessments of local resilience were also conducted via group exercises followed by […]

Urban Transitions Alliance

The Urban Transition Alliance connects industrial legacy cities from Europe, USA and China committed to accelerate ambitious and inclusive transitions, as well as showcasing their sustainability leadership. Alliance cities share their own transition experiences, knowledge and good practices based on social, economic and environmental challenges within their unique industrial legacy context. Through a tailored exchange […]

ARCH – Advancing Resilience of Historic Areas against Climate-related and other Hazards

ICLEI is responsible for several activities: Disseminate, communicate and exploit project results; Standardisation activities; Establish and maintain a framework to enable co-creation between research partners and city partners; Develop 'state-of-the-art' report on mainstreaming gender in building cultural heritage resilience; Review, map and characterise good practices Europe-wide in regard to making historic areas more resilient. This […]

FELICITY

The project offers a comprehensive support and a replicable approach that could be applied globally to assist local and regional governments to develop robust and transformative projects, and to help them to navigate in the complex world of technical and financial options, meet potential partners, and so contributing to close the above described gap between […]

2019 ICDF x ICLEI KCC Workshop on Water Management (International Class)

The module focused on practices, policies and innovations on sustainable water management at municipal level, particularly on city solutions to address rainfall extremes and water stress. ICLEI KCC delivered modules planning, coordinated with city speakers and promoted ICLEI Resilient Cities agenda.

Urban Infrastructure Insurance Facility project (UIIF)

UIIF has three major components: COMPONENT 1: Insurance product development and premium subsidy By 2025, 10 insurance policies against natural hazards have been newly developed or restructured that provide rapid financial resources to cities after damaging events to rebuild critical infrastructure and help the poor vulnerable population cope with the negative impacts. COMPONENT 2: Regional […]

Enabling African Cities for Transformative Energy Access (ENACT)

The ENACT project aims to create a conducive enabling environment to improve energy security in Africa (more specifically Uganda and Sierra Leone)’s urban areas with focus on the urban poor, by introducing market-led interventions for energy access. Through this project, ICLEI Africa’s team will contribute to creating suitable conditions for local governments to engage with […]

Water Security Strategy for the City of Johannesburg

ICLEI Africa is developing a Water Security Strategy with the City of Joburg through the following steps: Desktop research to understand the current water system, strategic intervention points and ongoing water-related initiatives and projects Baseline workshopping with stakeholders in and around Johannesburg to benchmark the city as a Water Sensitive City using the 34 indicators […]