Promoting Urban Climate Change Resilience in Selected Asian Cities - Development of Pilot Activities and Project Development Support (Subproject 3)

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Subproject SP3 will provide resources for piloting approaches to integrate community-led projects into ongoing or planned ADB projects, and thereby contribute to resilience building at various scales within UCCRTF cities. SP3 can be implemented in the following UCCRTF eligible countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Nepal, Philippines and Viet Nam. In 2017, in order to identify the range of activities that will be financed under SP3, UCCRTF together with The Rockefeller Foundation organized 2 rounds of ADB Resilience Academy, a four-day project preparation workshop. It brought together interdisciplinary teams from cities in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines and Viet Nam. Participants were invited in consultation with the ADB Operations Departments (ODs) and came from cities that are already receiving support from UCCRTF for other urban planning and infrastructure investment activities. With mentoring from international and national technical experts, each city team identified projects that could address the current and future climate related risks of its most vulnerable populations. The multidisciplinary and iterative project design process employed at the ADB Resilience Academy reaffirmed the need for the three outputs of inclusive resilience planning, community-identified small-scale projects and driving towards an integration of community-level planning with city-wide planning.The cities of Faridpur and Patuakhali (Bangladesh), Yangon (Myanmar), Abbotabad and Sialkot (Pakistan), Del Carmen, Janiuay, La Trinidad and Malay (Philippines) were eventually selected for SP3.Community Assessment and Resilience Planning activities were carried out in each of the cities to determine climate change vulnerabilities and who and where are the most affected segments of the population. Via a multi-criteria analysis and multi-stakeholder consultations, the village/ward/barangay have been selected in each city. These were then followed by intensive community dialogues to strengthen community voice and participation in urban resilience project design and to help urban planning processes address the priorities of the most vulnerable groups of people.The communities, each with support from a Community Resilience Officer (CRO) recruited through the project, identified small-scale civil works that could improve their resilience, and specified the knowledge and skills that they need in order to operate, maintain and sustain their community-led project.