By providing cognitive tools and capacity building, we enable the reduction of negative impacts through urban planning strategies, and allow for cost-effective investments in cities and their surrounding environment. 

By developing spatial analytics and strategies that include scientific modeling and participatory processes, we focus on enhancing the understanding of present and future risk, and how disaster prevention and risk reduction actions combined with strategic planning can ensure and augment resilience in cities.

Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Urban and Regional Development and Conservation

• Public awareness and community, institutional and scientific capacity building, for integrating prevention, anticipatory and adaptation measures into urban planning (internal mainstreaming).
• Land and environmental policy improvements to reduce vulnerability and protect landscape assets and resources [see Environmental and Conservation Planning].
• Stakeholder engagement for policy design and disaster reduction actions (educational mainstreaming).
• Development of guidelines to help local development planning and investment processes
• Establish processes to learn from previous experiences.
• Downscaling Climate and Resilience strategies into decision-making processes for short, medium, and long-term results (organizational mainstreaming).

Disaster Risk Preparedness and Response (Resilience and Adaptation Planning)

• Preliminary evaluation, profile and current conditions: climate, socioeconomic, infrastructural, institutional, and regulatory.
• Local participatory process for development, implementation and monitoring of sustainable and resilience planning actions.
• Capacity building to improve preparedness: community involvement, organizational plans and expert management.
• Development of a multi-sector strengthening strategy framework integrating risk reduction, mitigation and adaptation practices.