Welcome to the GIZ Urban Climate Resilience Toolbox
Select different filters and navigate through a wide collection of more than 90 Urban Climate Resilience approaches across 30 different countries.
Choose your mode of visualization and start exploring!
Visual mode
When best to use:
- If you want to interactively explore the approaches
- If you want to have basic filters
Classic mode
When best to use:
- If you are on a smartphone
- If you want to have a comprehensive overview
We developed this toolbox in order to make GIZ’s experience in Urban Climate Resilience available through a range of possible approaches to support and improve future projects implementation, knowledge exchange and enhance the visibility of good practices.
We invite you to explore the GIZ Urban Climate Resilience Toolbox either via our visual mode or classic mode. In visual mode, you will use an interactive graphic to find and navigate the different approaches. In classic mode, you will be provided with a classic database interface.
The Urban Climate Resilience Toolbox
We developed this toolbox in order to make GIZ’s experience in Urban Climate Resilience available through a range of possible approaches to support and improve future projects implementation, knowledge exchange and enhance the visibility of good practices.
We invite you to explore the Urban Climate Resilience Toolbox either via our visual mode or classic mode. In visual mode, you will use an interactive graphic to find and navigate the different approaches. The classic mode you will be provided with a classic database interface.
This is how the Visual Mode looks like
When best to use:
- If you want to interactively explore the approaches
- If you want to have basic filters
The Urban Climate Resilience Toolbox
We developed this toolbox in order to make GIZ’s experience in Urban Climate Resilience available through a range of possible approaches to support and improve future projects implementation, knowledge exchange and enhance the visibility of good practices.
We invite you to explore the Urban Climate Resilience Toolbox either via our visual mode or classic mode. In visual mode, you will use an interactive graphic to find and navigate the different approaches. The classic mode you will be provided with a classic database interface.
This is how the Classic Mode looks like
When best to use:
- If you are on a smartphone
- If you are want to use many filters
- If you want to have a comprehensive overview
How does it work?
Intuitive filters allow you to select from various categories and combine different criteria enabling a precise identification of resilience approaches. Once an approach is identified, click on the approach card, and download the PDF with a factsheet containing further details. You can navigate through the approaches by exploring a combination of options across seven filters:
How?
Most resilience approaches comprise more than one component, method, instrument or strategy. For example, combining capacity development with the implementation of technical solutions.
HAZARD
URBAN FUNCTION
TYPE OF RISK MANAGEMENT
SPHERE OF INTERVENTION
LEVEL OF INTERVENTION
COUNTRY OF IMPLEMENTATION
TYPE OF APPROACH
The approaches were classified in the following 8 categories based on their main focus that aim to address a particular issue.
Capacity Development
Approaches that center on education, training, and providing guidance to intermediaries and beneficiaries in the identification, planning, financing, implementation, and evaluation of resilience strategies.
Framework conditions
Approaches that support legal frameworks, financing methods, or feasibility studies essential for implementing resilience strategies
Access to finance
Approaches designed to establish special funds, financing options, or risk transfer mechanisms (particularly insurance) to advance resilience strategies
Information & data management
Approaches aiming to provide climate data, projections, information about urban function basics, tolerance thresholds, and potential damage. Urban planners and municipal authorities are the primary users of this information.
Planning approaches & decision support tools
Approaches that cover diverse process design for identifying and implementing resilience strategies, encompassing methodological guidelines, technical decision-making tools, and analytical methods.
Implementation of technical solutions
Approaches that primarily involve technical strategies for implementing resilience measures, with a focus on process description and the generation of empirical evidence for future application.
Plan & Strategy Development
Approaches aimed at developing plans and strategies for implementing resilience measures or integrating them into existing planning frameworks.
Cooperation & Knowledge Sharing
Approaches that are designed to create platforms or spaces that promote cross-sectoral or cross-regional collaboration among different stakeholders to design, align and implement resilience strategies.
Overview
Sharing urban climate resilience experiences is crucial as cities worldwide deal with the challenges of climate change and rapid urbanization. This practice speeds up learning, supports cost-efficiency, encourages adaptability, magnifies the impact of successful strategies, and enhances collaboration among cities, all of which are essential for effectively addressing shared challenges and strengthening governance frameworks.
GIZ has been implementing projects with a focus on Urban Resilience and working with strategic partners for about 10 years, although certain approaches which strengthened resilience had been applied before (e.g., flood risk management in urban areas). This wealth of experience on Urban Resilience jointly collected by the GIZ Urban Climate Resilience Task Force is now available through a range of possible approaches to support and improve future projects implementation, knowledge exchange and enhance the visibility of good practices.
The GIZ Urban Climate Resilience Toolbox is a repository of more than 90 different tried, tested and ongoing approaches in more than 30 countries. The toolbox provides information on where and how these approaches are being or have been implemented. The resilience approaches are clustered into different categories that define their design to facilitate the access to information for policymakers, practitioners, and those with a general interest in urban climate resilience actions or in implementing them in the local, national, and international level in the context of international cooperation.