Urban Risk Reduction and Resilience Building
Client: UN-Habitat
Location: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tomé and Principe
2018
This evaluation concerned the Urban Risk Reduction and Resilience Building in Lusophone Africa Project. The project focuses on ways of improving local capacity to build urban resilience in secondary towns where the human and financial resources allocated to urban planning are already limited.
UN-Habitat has been involved in urban risk reduction and rehabilitation for over three decades and together with UNISDR it has developed user-friendly tools targeting municipal officials for urban risk reduction and resilience.
The project’s objective was to increase the capacities of municipalities of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tomé and Principe for reducing urban risk and building resilience. The project intended to firstly increase the levels of technical understanding and knowledge of municipal authorities, leading to an improved capacity to integrate risk reduction and resilience into urban plans and municipal strategies. Secondly, by enhancing the communication and information exchange between cities and towns in each country and across the three countries, the project intended to enhance their risk reduction and resilience practices.
