Engagement Climate ICLEI ACCCRN Workbook WORKBOOK
INTRODUCTION
ICLEI ACCCRN Process
Cities as centres of economic activities cater to half of the world’s population – and this share is growing. Not only as centres of growth but also as major consumers of resources, urban areas
are one of the major emitters of greenhouse gases. In addition, these global emissions are leading to climate change and variability causing adverse impacts at the local level in terms of disruptions
and damages to physical, social, economic, and environmental systems. Cities are therefore both the cause and the victims of climate change.
The ICLEI ACCCRN Process IAP has been developed by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability’s South Asia and Oceania offices through involvement with the Rockefeller
Foundation supported Asian Cities Climate Change Resilient Network ACCCRN program. It enables local governments to assess their climate risks in the context of urbanisation, poverty and
vulnerability and formulate corresponding resilience strategies.
The IAP toolkit draws on the experience from the ten core ACCCRN cities see www.acccrn.org and supplements this with learning, models, approaches and best practices of existing ICLEI
approaches. The toolkit was tested in three Indian cities – Shimla, Bhubaneswar and Mysore - and subsequently used in a range of cities in Indonesia, Bangladesh, the Philippines and India.
With a strong city focus, this toolkit is targeted at city governments and their role in catalysing community building. It provides a streamlined process that is simple and yet rigorous,
and which can be implemented by the cities themselves, with only minimal need for external support. It enables local governments to assess their climate risks, formulate and implement
corresponding resilience strategies. The vision is to build resilience to climate change across all urban systems and groups, in particular the poorest and most marginalised.
The ICLEI ACCCRN Process has been designed in a step-by-step format, divided into 6 phases. A city with very little previous experience in climate change planning is advised to follow this
sequence. However, other cities that have already completed some studies or analysis may wish to select only parts of the process. The process is also designed to be a continuous cycle of review
and refinement, rather than a closed cycle as shown in the figure below.
BENEFITS TO CITIES
Strengthened awareness and knowledge about potential risks
at local level with engagement of stakeholders.
Better understanding of the city’s vulnerabilities to climate change
impacts and therefore better management of climate change
impacts.
Development of a Climate Resilience Strategy for improved
local economic, social and environmental resilience of the city.
Integration of the resilience strategy into urban planning
and implementation processes and guidance for financing and
implementation of interventions.
- Commitment - Institutional setup
- Situation analysis - Communication
- Climate analysis - Urban analysis
- Climate risk assessment
- Risk prioritisation
- Vulnerable areas - Vulnerable social groups
- Adaptive capacities analysis: actors and urban systems
- Resilience interventions
- Feasibility analysis
- Integration - City Resilience
Strategy
- Identifying funding op tions
- Feasibility and project planning - Governance and monitoring framew
ork - Project implemen
tation
- Establishment of performance indicators and reporting system
- Monitoring and reporting - Initiation of review phase