Resilient cities, resilient lives: learning from the 100RC Network

In the six years since the creation of 100 Resilient Cities, more than 70 cities in our Network have published Resilience Strategies containing over 3,000 initiatives. Nearly 80% of our member cities have institutionalised the role of Chief Resilience Officer. Our movement’s broad reach includes a community of practice nearly 20,000 people strong, and has engaged approximately 3,000 different community groups to ensure residents’ voices are heard and that ownership of the resilience agenda is shared. Our combined efforts have helped to mainstream the concept of resilience in both the global and urban lexicon, resulting in thousands of articles published which mention our work in international, national, and local publications in every city where we operate.

This report is meant to inspire, to capture the lessons we’ve learned from working in this space over the past six years, and to serve as a practical guide for new actors hoping to learn how they too can participate in this global movement to make cities more forward-looking, inclusive, integrated, and risk-aware. Cities are the main audience, especially those who hope to begin or will continue resilience journeys of their own, and who will benefit from the lessons and replicable stories spanning the entire 100RC Network. City partners, thought-leaders, investors, and all urban resilience practitioners, however new to the field, will also find insights and learnings they can bring to their own work.