Sessions on the Transition
SOU-51 |ITERATIVE, INCLUSIVE, AND INTEGRATED RESILIENCE PLANNING
20 May
20 May
16:30 to 18:00
Venue: Room 5
LEAD ORGANIZER
PRESENTATION OF THE SESSION
UK- GOVERNMENT FUNDED SUSTAINABLE URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (SUED)
The Sustainable Urban Economic Development Programme (SUED) in Kenya supports climate smart municipal planning to attract investment for climate-resilient infrastructure and value chain projects, thereby reducing vulnerability from climate induced economic impacts. SUED is working closely with 12 Kenyan municipalities to better manage and adapt to climate impacts, supporting integration of early warning systems that respond to specific climate disasters e.g., drought and flooding, to ensure appropriate, speedy, and sustainable climate interventions. Climate vulnerability analysis is integrated into the master-planning processes to find locally applicable solutions and to develop climate-smart urban economic plans. This enables cities to identify infrastructure projects that can be climate proofed to promote resilience in the face of mitigating increased urban carbon emissions.
First, this session is organised to share lessons of how the programme has worked with the municipalities to improve the climate resilience of their urban environments and drive sustainable economic development. In it, session participants and various country representatives will see how the municipalities are defining their vision by outlining how they will build their infrastructure to better service the population, develop decongested urban centers that enables their residents to live and work sustainably in well-planned towns that absorb direct and indirect impacts of climate change.
Second, the session will address how its key to embed a strong climate resilience lens within the urban economic planning process to help intermediary cities identify climate change adaptation actions. In doing so municipalities (intermediary cities) are able to embrace climate change adaptation planning and develop climate resilience infrastructure that will ensure that their urban centers face minimal disruption from adverse weather and their economic gains are safeguarded. The session will demonstrate how critical it is to work with the intermediary towns’ leadership to strengthen their resilience against climate shocks as way of ensuring national level urban resilience.
The sessions objectives are to:
- Share best practices on climate (adaptation and mitigation from SUED supported intermediary cities) and how to integrate them into urban planning.
- Demonstrate how SUED has partnered with intermediary cities to harness the potential of urban areas as engines of inclusive and climate resilient growth
PANEL
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Chairperson
M. Vincent Lilanda
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Rapporteur
Eunice Ogolo
SUED SRO
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Facilitator
Victor Gathogo
Climate Change and Environmental Impact Advisor
Programme
Summary
Speakers
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Benjamin Smith
SUED’s Urban Economic Planning Team
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Hassannoor Abdullahi
Hassannoor Abdullahi - Mandera Municipal Manager
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Moses Munga
Kilifi County
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Simon Elliot
SUED’s Urban Planning Team Lead
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Vassiliki Kravva
SUED’s Cities and Urban Infrastructure and Economics Lead
GALLERY
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