The report identifies four key areas essential to building crisis resilient urban futures: Urban and territorial planning, climate action, digital transformation, and urban finance.
Urban Planning
The Future of Asian & Pacific Cities Report 2023 entitled, Crisis Resilient Urban Futures, is a comprehensive analysis and assessment of sustainable urban development in the Asia and Pacific region at a time of great disruption and uncertainty resulting from multiple interlinked global crises in a post-pandemic era.
In the 2023 Philippine Urban Forum, held recently on October 5-6 in Pasay City, Northern Samar Provincial Planning and Development Coordinator and Environmental Planner Jay Keenson Acebuche highlighted the importance of climate and disaster risk profiling for prospects of nature-based solutions in resilience building.
The BSDF formulation is a necessary initiative to guide the long-term direction of BARMM toward rationalizing the allocation and utilization of land and other physical resources for maximum economic benefits and enhancing resiliency and disaster preparedness.
In a time where cities are evolving at an unprecedented rate, the need for sustainable urban development has become paramount. DHSUD will gather urban actors and leaders this October for PhUF2023.
More than 120 technical officers and staff from the Iloilo provincial office, city and municipal LGUs, and the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) Region VI participated in the four-day training that aimed to introduce the enhanced Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA) and the Provincial Climate Risk Diagnostics (PCRD) methodology and tool.
BCRUPD made steps to enhance national and subnational government capacities to guide and manage urban growth and green recovery with resilience principles and practices. The project also supplemented existing planning guidelines and develop knowledge through policy inputs, capacity development, and demonstration activities.
In celebration of #WorldBicycleDay, we asked a colleague, environmental planner, and bike enthusiast about her thoughts on biking in the Metro.
This reference tool provides a platform to equip users with concepts and technical information on urban planning and design for climate resilience. It aims to deliver guidance for national government agencies, local government units, and other stakeholders in pursuing resilient and sustainable development.
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.
