International. UN-Habitat presented a new climate change project in the Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI) on "pro-poor planning for climate resilience in slums".
In the cities and communities of The Solomon Islands, Cameroon, Fiji, Burkina Faso and Jamaica, the initial activities of the project were carried out, which seeks to improve the knowledge and capacities of communities to address the issue of climate change by strengthening the capacity to adapt to climate change in informal settlement contexts.
Findings from the Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI) and the Participatory Slum Improvement Programme (PSUP) clearly indicate that slums and informal settlements are disproportionately affected by climate events due to their physical, geographical and socio-economic disadvantage. In addition, negative effects on slums and informal settlements tend to spill over into the city as a whole with negative impacts for all.
Building on this extensive work, a new partnership between the Swedish government and UN-Habitat seeks to build climate resilience in slums using pro-poor planning methodologies as an entry point.
Partnerships already established through PSUP in countries are being used to coordinate this new intervention, to get local governments in collaboration with communities to address the effects of climate change at the neighbourhood level. One of the activities exemplified by this new project was the recent training of relevant actors in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, on the City Resilience Action Planning Tool (City-RAP), developed under DiMSUR (Disaster Risk Management, Sustainability and Urban Resilience) and already used successfully in other African cities.
The four-day training program allowed local trainees to plan actions that progressively reduce disaster risk and build urban resilience in their communities. Thirty-two professionals from Burkina Faso were introduced to the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to carry out the implementation of the City's RAP tool within a municipality or neighbourhood during this trainer training in Ouagadougou.
Source: Construible.es
