1. Responding to the 100 Resilient Cities Challenge From participation to collaboration in Porto Alegre Arch. MSc. Patrick Fontes Deputy Chief Resilience Officer

2. City of Porto Alegre

3. Birth of Participatory Budgeting 1 st World Social Forum IDHM 0,805 Gini index 0,60

4. Challenge

5. To help complex urban systems organize around resilience To scale market solutions efficiently 1. Funding to hire a Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) 2. Support to develop a City Resilience Strategy 3. A Platform of Services to support strategy implamentation 4. A Membership in the 100RC Network 100RC provides Member cities with 4 types of support

6. Challenge Porto Alegre 100RC Network

7. Resilience Strategy objectives A structured activity resulting in an actionable set of initiatives that will build city’s resilience and signal the market A process to engage a broad and diverse range of city stakeholders A holistic preliminary assessment of a city’s resilience, followed by a deep diagnostic on particular focus areas A deliberate objective to leverage existing plans, actions, and programs A process that establishes the ongoing practice of resilience and helps define the role of the CRO in the city A process that leverages global strategy partners and produces similar outputs to aggregate

8. Barriers to overcome Silos working approach Government responsibility Rigid mechanisms of participation New problems need new solutions

9. Complex barriers to overcome Go beyond participation where people only bring problems to the table and start to collaborate to build solutions together.

10. Make the right question: What we can do better together that we struggle to do alone?

11. Strategy adopted Level up the engagement

12. Strategy adopted Use of structures already in place instead of building everything from zero Let stakeholders decide what level of engagement they want Face-to-face conversation Multidisciplinary approach

13. Qualities that made it possible Leadership (CRO Figure) and Mayor commitment

14. Qualities that made it possible Coordinating group shared with NGO, university and local government.

15. Qualities that made it possible Decentralization – 17 sub local networks of resilience – Working group of government departments – Multidisciplinary steering committee – Self steering working groups for each project priority

16. Results 2º Workshop Process validated by 120 participants from different areas.

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18. It wouldn’t be possible without Celulose Riograndense Accenture 100 Resilient Cities and Rockefeller Foundation NGO CiuPOA Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre City Hall

19. THANK YOU! Arch. MSc, Patrick Fontes patrick.fontes@portoalegreresiliente.org