Resilient Cities:Bridging the humanitarian and development divide (Recommendations to be considered in the City We Need Draft 2.0)

Recommendations to be considered in the City We Need Draft 2.0 Through the Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) on Resilient Cities and representing all of those who participate in it, World Vision International and the International Rescue Committee put forth the following recommendations on planning and building urban resiliency as a contribution to the World Urban Campaign’s The City We Need Draft 2.0, to be presented at Habitat III. These recommendations are designed so that they may be linked with other global initiatives, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, the World Humanitarian Summit, and the New Urban Agenda. They are drawn from several existing endeavours and organizations whose mandates are to define, advocate for, and build urban resilience. These endeavours/organizations include 100 Resilient Cities, Arup’s Resilience Framework, the Habitat III Ecology and Resilience Policy Unit, and the WHS’s Global Alliance for Urban Crises. The recommendations relate to both planning/designing resiliency strategies and what the strategies themselves should aim to achieve. Using these recommendations as a starting point, it is this UTC’s vision that humanitarian, developmental, human rights, and local actors adopt urban resilience as a common framework through which they may align their shared goals and work together to build more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient cities, and that these recommendations are useful both in addressing urban crises and building from them.