Resilient and Green Recovery Archives — UN-Habitat Philippines

Five years of building climate resiliency through better urban plans and designs: The BCRUPD Project

From 2017 to 2022, the BCRUPD project has improved capacities of national government agencies and local government units to promote and integrate urban adaptation planning and designs in their institutional policies and programs. It has also equipped cities to build back better from the impacts of pandemic with its Resilient and Green Recovery initiatives.

Resilient green recovery banner Tagum, DHSUD capdev efforts

Aiming to sustain its resilience initiatives, Tagum City recently wrapped up its RGR mentoring and catch-up sessions where projects identified by the cities were further enhanced at the project site-level design.

City-to-City Learning Exchange Highlights

Culminating months of planning, workshops, and mentoring sessions on resilient and green recovery, Tagum and Ormoc engaged in a city-to-city learning exchange to share their prospects in addressing climate change and COVID-19 in their localities.

Ormoc, Tagum share local action plans for better, greener, more resilient cities

The city governments of Ormoc and Tagum showcased their local plans for resilient and green recovery (RGR) during the City to City (C2C) Learning Exchange held on December 9-10, 2021 simultaneously in the two cities and virtually.

Resilient and Green Recovery Research

For many cities, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing issues in poverty and inequality including challenges in employment and livelihood, transport and accessibility, access to basic services, and security of tenure. The ones who suffered the worst impact are the marginalized urban populations. It is then vital to understand the situation of the urban poor to inform the facilitation and conduct of resilient and green recovery in the cities.

COVID-19, climate change response pushed in DHSUD policies

In a training intended to beef up the department’s policy capacities, officials and middle-managers of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) pushed for ways on how the impacts of pandemic and climate change can be addressed.