City regions

Planning and building resilience in cities requires a holistic understanding of the region-specific needs and the vision of citizens and city stakeholders across sectors

Resilience Brokers Programme champions the use of robust data as an evidence-base upon which to build business cases and help city regions to decide on the most appropriate course of action to address their region-specific issues. Using resilience.io, we will support communities and city stakeholders across sectors to work collaboratively–building on existing strengths of city regions–to develop a pipeline of risk-assessed bankable projects. This model is designed to support the scaling of innovative solutions and the procurement of the best possible delivery services.

We have successfully prototyped and tested the Programme’s delivery model in Accra, Ghana, using data from the community to tackle the region’s water and sanitation challenges.

Regional pilot: WASH sector, Greater Accra (Ghana)

Collaboratory + Data & modelling + Evidenced investments

Model development

  • Full set of specification documents – resilience.io
  • 50 digital twins developed that describe input output, energy, material and labour.
  • Computer modules built and tested.
    Agent Based Modelling & Resource Technology Network model.
  • Three use-cases developed within the collaboratory, to demonstrate functionality and benefits leading to an investment strategy for 100% access to clean water and affordable sanitation.
  • Visualisations for decision support and basic user interface.

Data

200+ data sets collected that describe WASH in GAMA as well as socioeconomic, GIS, process and technology (africaopendata.org).

Partners

  • Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development
  • Ministry of Finance
  • National Development Planning Commission

Finally, with resilience.io, we will be able to evaluate risk and attract investment to build our markets. When an investor comes into a situation to invest they want to remove a lot of the risk. resilience.io helps to gather the right data to quantify and project risk. People can then do the right analysis to evaluate risk–knowing the risk, it can be mitigated

Robert Ansah

Office of the Mayor, Accra Metropolitan Assembly

Supporting 200 demonstration regions by 2023

Following the successful delivery of the resilience.io prototype in Accra, Ghana, our model has captured the attention of city champions and government representatives from all over the world.

A number of cities have come forward to host the Programme’s initial demonstrations including, Medellin, Accra, San Salvador, Edmonton, Hunter Region, Xiamen and Beirut.

We continue to work very closely with our delivery partner ICLEI, and their global membership, to implement our 200 city region engagement and scale up strategy.

Model development

  • Full set of specification documents –  resilience.io
  • 50 Process blocks developed that  describe input output, energy, material  and labour
  • Computer modules built and tested
  • ABM & RTN
  • Three use-cases developed within the collaboratory to demonstrate functionality and benefits leading to an investment strategy for 100% access to  clean water and affordable sanitation
  • Visualisations for decision support and  basic user interface

Data

  • 200 plus data sets collected that  describe WASH in GAMA as well as  socio-economic, GIS, process and  technology