Author: Disaster Risk Management, Sustainability and Urban Resilience (DiMSUR)
Year of publication: 2018
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Climate change adaptation assessment
Details: CityRAP Tool is used for training city managers and municipal technicians in small to intermediate sized cities in sub-Saharan Africa. It enables communities to understand and plan actions aimed at reducing risk and building resilience through the development of a Resilience Framework for Action.
Format of assessment: Guideline
Details: Interactive training courses to help build and strengthen capacities of both communities and decision makers in disaster risk management, climate change adaptation and urban resilience.
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: 3 to 4 months
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: DiMSUR experts, city managers and municipal technicians
Institutional scale of use: Local/community
Details: Small to intermediate sized cities in sub-Saharan Africa
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Local decision makers
Output: Others (see details)
Details: Development of a City Resilience Framework for Action
Region of origin: Africa
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Africa
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide (cities)
Sectors covered: Urban sector
Details: Urban planning
Method used: Other (see details)
Description of methodology: Participatory training courses
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Vulnerability
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Primary and secondary
Details: Focus is laid on expert judgement by involving different departments of cities' administration. Further secondary data might be used to help priorisation and decision-making process
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Engagement with public sector and vulnerable communities to generate the data and develop a City Resilience Framework for Action
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Details: The self-assessment survey, which is the main source of data collection, includes questions on resilience of urban economy, infrastructure and facilities, and urban disaster risk management, which can be an indication of potential economic and non-economic losses. But calculation of losses is not included
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Partly
Details: Guiding questions of the tool focus more on EWE (e.g. heavy rain, flood, cyclone, earthquake, etc.)
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Partly
Details: Identifies priority issues for building the city resilience
Usefulness for political purposes: Project proposals- Adaptation fund
Applied by whom: CityRAP Tool trainings have already been conducted in 20 cities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Open access: Yes