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Through the actions o the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network by2012a network o cities in Asia will have developed robust plans to prepare, withstand

and recover rom climate change impacts.


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The Challenge

Cities of the future...

50% o the global population currently live in cities and this is expected toincrease to 70% (or 6.4 billion people) by 2050. Asian cities are expectedto see more than 60% o this increase and 46% o all urban populationgrowth will occur in cities with ewer than 500,000 inhabitants.

UN-Habitat estimate that over 1 billion (or one in three) urban inhabitantscurrently do not have adequate access to water and sanitation, live inovercrowded conditions, live in poor quality, temporary shelters or lacksecurity o tenure and they predict that the number o slum dwellers

could double, to 2 billion, by 2050.

...face unprecedented challenges...

The IPCC predict decades o global warming as our past emissionscontinue to heat up the earths atmosphere.

Potential climate change impacts include: rising sea levels, morerequent, stronger storms, coastal erosion, diminishing biodiversity,continuing loss o glaciers and arctic ice, salinity in reshwater aquiersand an increase in heat-related diseases like malaria and dengue ever.

...particularly for the most vulnerable.

Climate change will have the greatest impact on communities who havedone the least to cause it. Poor and vulnerable populations have the leastcapacity to prepare and plan or the impacts o climate change and theleast capacity to respond.

Communities around the world need better weapons new tools, techniques, and strategies i they hope totame the three-headed hydra o climate risk, poverty,

and precipitous urbanization (...) Since it may be too late to stopthe global warming thats already occurred, we must fgure outhow to survive it

Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation

ACCCRN aims to catalyze attention, unding and action on building climate change resilience or poor andvulnerable people by: Creating robust models of climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people Funding, promoting, and disseminating those models Increasing pressure on funders, practitioners and policy-makers to support climate change resilience for poor

and vulnerable people.

The objectives o the ACCCRN program are to: Test and demonstrate a range of actions to build climate change resilience in cities Build a replicable base of lessons learned, successes and failures Assist cities to develop and implement a climate change resilience building process Build the capacity of cities to continue climate change resilience building activities.

Anticipated results o the ACCCRN program include:

1. Capacity buildingSelected cities in South and South East Asia have adequate capacity to plan, nance, coordinate, andimplement climate change resilience strategies.

2. Network for learning and engagementA broad range o representatives o cities, civil society, donors, private sector, technical partners engagewith ACCCRN to mutually identiy and solve key climate change resilience problems.

3. Expansion, deepening of experience, scaling upNew and more diverse partners provide resources and unding or replication in current and new cities tosupport the implementation o resilience plans and strategies.


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1. City Scoping and SelectionApril 2008 to September 2009

Identiy partner cities which are: experiencing rapid urbanization vulnerable to the impacts of climate change have the capacity to engage with ACCCRN

Identiy key stakeholders and local partners.

2. City-level engagement and capacitydevelopmentJanuary 2009 to mid 2010

Shared learning dialogues with key stakeholders to: Understand city-level vulnerability Identify potential climate change impacts Create an urban climate change resilience action plan.

3. Implementation of urban resilience projects2010 to 2012

Work with local and international partners to implement replicableinterventions identied in the climate change resilience action plan.

4. ReplicationMid 2008 onwards

The ACCCRN program will scale-up through: Networking and shared learning within and

between cities, countries and sectors Continuous monitoring and evaluation to evaluate

emerging results and capture lessons learned

Promoting the development of capacity for replication Dissemination of learning and adaptation frameworks Leveraging additional funding sources for resilience

building initiatives throughout the region.

ACCCRN Phase 1 is currently underway to identiy up to two cities romeach country in which to take orward intensive engagement. This workis being led by Mercy Corps and URDI in Indonesia, and TEI and ADPC inThailand.

Activities in this phase include meetings with city-level stakeholders(local government bodies and NGOs) and advisory groups (nationalgovernment bodies, academic institutions and civil society). Assessmentinvolves desk and eld surveys to gain an understanding o the physical,

social, political and economic contexts o each city.

The cross-disciplinary inormation gathered in this phase provides a basisor: Understanding vulnerability within the city Understanding potential climate change impacts Guaging the citys readiness to engage with ACCCRN Proceeding to Phase 2 of the ACCCRN process.

Indonesia and Thailand

ACCCRN Phases

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All o the ACCCRN cities in India are experiencing rapid populationgrowth and industrial expansion, with increasing demands on water andenergy resources, expansion o inormal settlements and challenges orurban planners.

Water scarcity is the main threat to the city o Indore, with the levelo water demand ar outstripping supply, leaving a large section o thepopulation unserved. Demand is increasing rapidly with populationgrowth and extensive industrial development. Although the problem o

water scarcity is not new, increasing incidence and severity o droughtand foods are adding more stress on the citys population and citymanagers.

Gorakhpur is located in the middle o northern Indias Gangetic Plain.Prolonged water logging together with poor waste management hascaused an increase in the incidence o vector borne diseases and relatedhealth problems, as well as contamination o ground water.

Flooding, coastal storms and cyclones, sea level rise and inundation aremajor threats to the port city o Surat. The city has experienced majorfooding every ew years in the last two decades, with some eventscovering as much as 75% o the city. It is low lying settlements andsettlements close to the river, oten homes o the poorest and vulnerablepopulations, that have been worst aected by foods.

In Da Nang, storms have caused severe damage to vulnerable coastalareas, leading to the resettlement of many poor households. Floodingis a recurring problem, both in poorly drained central areas as well asin peri-urban districts undergoing rapid land conversion. Rapid tourismdevelopment on exposed beach areas may become vulnerable in uture.

In Quy Nhon, heavy rains generally lead to extensive fooding in low-lying peri-urban estuarine areas, while more remote coastal shingcommunities are exposed to increasing erosion by storms and higher

tides. The same areas oten suer rom water shortages and salineintrusion in the dry season as droughts become more requent.

The threats in Can Tho are somewhat dierent than in the other twocities, because this region is accustomed to large-scale, long-lastingseasonal fooding o the Mekong River, even without local rainall. Sealevel rise and upstream climate and land use changes will exacerbate thisthreat, while saline intrusion and water shortages in the dry season havebecome more noticeable in peri-urban areas.

The National Target Program on Climate Change was announced inDecember 2008. Binh Dinh province, including the city of Quy Nhon, hasbeen selected as an NTP pilot site and Quy Nhons ACCCRN experiencewill help provide insight or emerging adaptation planning guidelinesthere.

India

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Vietnam


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Founded in 1913, The Rockefeller Foundation supports work around the

world to expand opportunities or poor or vulnerable people and to helpensure that globalizations benets are more widely shared.www.rockound.org

ISET, the Institute or Social Environmental Transition is working withcountry level partners to support project cities through a shared learningdialogue process that will identiy resilience-building activities.www.i-s-e-t.org

Arup, a global consultancy o planners, engineers and economists,is providing program management and technical assistance to the

Rockefeller Foundation and local partners and cities.www.arup.com/internationaldevelopment

ProVention provides leadership in identiying, connecting and aligningwith potential unding sources at country, regional and global levels;leveraging opportunities or donor unding o ACCCRN projects; andbuilding linkages between ACCCRN, practitioners and donors onresilience priorities to support the objectives o the initiative.www.proventionconsortium.org

ICLEI provides leadership in bringing city-level work to the national andglobal levels, by helping cities to build a business case or the localgovernments. ICLEI is also assisting the country partners in Indonesia incity-level engagement processes.www.iclei.org

Country Partners coordinate with national level entities, assist in theidentication o local partners and coordinate a process o deeperengagement through Shared Learning Dialogues.

India TARU Leading Edge Consulting (www.taru.org) Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (www.geagindia.org)Thailand Thailand Environment Institute (www.tei.or.th) Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (www.adpc.net)Indonesia Mercy Corps (www.mercycorps.org) Urban and Regional Development Institute (www.urdi.org)Vietnam

Challenge to Change (www.challengetochange.org) NISTPASS (www.nistpass.gov.vn)

Email: [email protected]: www.rockound.org/initiatives/climate/acccrn.html

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