1. Building Urban Resilience Ken MacClune Senior Staff Scientist Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET)

2. ISET Institute for Social and Environmental Transition International  International Non-Profit with offices in three countries  Boulder Colorado, Delhi and Hanoi  Sister ISETs  ISET-Nepal (Kathmandu)  ISET-Pakistan (Islamabad)

3. Vision (in the making) Collaborate for the Innovative Change Needed to Transform Development Practice Toward a Sustainable and Just Future ISET-International will Act, Learn and Connect People Globally to Change Development Practice through Equal Partnership (Coalitions), Innovation and Shared Learning.

4. Why Cities

5.  Urban disasters pose increasing threat to highly concentrated, and often poor, residents.  Urban areas house most productive economic investment,  Thus disasters can be extremely costly and cause widespread disruption to national and regional economies (e.g. Bangkok flood 2011).

6. Complexity  Urban systems are complex and interdependent  actions can have unexpected ripple effects, often far beyond what was intended.  As cities expand, risks can increase unexpectedly.  But urban disaster risks can be reduced through better understanding and collaboration between different organizations.

7. The Challenge: Complexity leads to Wicked Problems  Disaster risk and climate change are‘wicked problems’ (a ‘social messes’)  How to address this wicked problem

8. Nice Problems  1+2=3 Building an airplane Complicated but not complex

9. Wicked Problems  Russell L. Ackoff complex problems as messes: “Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems…”  Robert Horn: “a Social Mess is a set of interrelated problems and other messes. Complexity—systems of systems—is among the factors that makes Social Messes so resistant to analysis and, more importantly, to resolution.”

10. Robert Horn

11. Addressing Complexity  Disaster Risk reduction in urban areas requires broad interaction with a wide range of local actors, including multiple government departments, social organizations / civil society, community groups and businesses.

12. Addressing Complexity: Challenges  Collaboration between different organizations can be difficult.  Most organizations do not have a specific mandate for collaboration,  they focus exclusively on their own narrow interests.  Often helpful to make the collaboration and coordination mandate explicit e.g. Climate Change Coordination Offices (CCCOs) in 3 cities in Vietnam.

13. Addressing Complexity: Solutions  Collaboration requires additional skills (beyond technical knowledge)  communications, networking, information exchange and finding opportunities for mutual benefit.  Need to be able to provide support to other organizations who may get more credit and recognition.

14. Can Require Different Tools  http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradi gms http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradi gms  https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insi ght https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insi ght

15. Tools to Address Issue  Shared Learning Dialogues  Shared Vision Planning  “Futuring”

16. ISET’s Resilience Framework

17. Example  Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network  ACCCRN  Rockefeller Foundation  Mekong – Building Climate Resilient Asian Cities  M-BRACE  USAID-RDMA

18. Kenneth MacClune ken@i-s-e-t.org www.i-s-e-t.org

19. ACCCRN & M-BRACE PROGRAMS

21.  ISET Vietnam is working at multiple levels, with local communities, local and provincial governments, national government and with civil society organizations such as the Red Cross to learn from past disasters and improve practices to reduce urban risks.  Learning and diagnostic tools: research, vulnerability assessment, PERC, SLDs  Planning tools: Climate action plans, urban development plans  Collaboration tools: SLDs, CCCO, training and capacity building

22. Gorakhpur U.P. India

23. Gorakhpur UP India Rapid Urbanization Flooding Health

24. Mahewa Project: main outcomes  Experimentation and learning-by-doing:  Residents of Mahewa ward have developed their own decentralized waste management and drainage systems.  Interventions have reduced waterlogging and sanitation problems in the absence of effective state support, and have become a sustained practice in the ward.  Deliberation, public dialogues, advocacy:  A ward-level Citizens Committee successfully lobbied the City Government to provide roads and storm water drainage.

25. The Climate Resilience Framework in Practice  Mahewa Ward - Gorakhpur  Social Capital

26. Da Nang Vietnam

27. Da Nang, Vietnam Rapid Urbanization Vulnerable Housing Need for Typhoon Safety

28. Resilient Housing Design Competition

30. Kenneth MacClune ken@i-s-e-t.org www.i-s-e-t.org