STEP 3
Assess your city’s governance on DRR and CCA
Assessing your city’s institutional structures, policies, and capacities helps identify strengths to build on, gaps to address, and opportunities for improvement. A structured assessment process ensures that adaptation and DRR interventions are targeted and aligned with institutional capacities, ultimately enhancing sustainability and impact. Workshops are also encouraged in this step, to provide an opportunity to raise awareness of local climate challenges, foster inclusive dialogue, and build a sense of ownership amongst participants, making climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction initiatives more effective and locally grounded.
Goal
Understand strengths and areas of improvement in terms of DRR and CAA governance
Tools
- Use the UNDRR’s Making Cities Resilient 2030 Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities to assess your city’s DRR governance
Downloadable resource
Call to action
Join the MCR2030 initiative to strengthen your city’s resilience through collective action and peer learning. By connecting with other African cities, you’ll gain access to shared knowledge, best practices, and collaborative opportunities that align with institutional mandates, helping you build the capacity and partnerships needed to attract funding and turn resilience goals into action.
Did you know?
Cities with gender-inclusive governance structures are better equipped to respond to crises. For instance, Freetown, Sierra Leone, integrated women’s leadership into its disaster risk reduction policies, resulting in a 30% increase in community trust in local authorities. Assessing governance through a gender lens helps identify systemic barriers and ensures that policies empower marginalised groups.
