City-focused frameworks
The City Resilience Framework (CRF)
The latest City Resilience Framework 2024 Edition (CRF'24) has been developed by Arup, following feedback obtained from how the first CRF, which was launched in 2014, has been used.
CRF'24 exists to foster improvements at city, neighbourhood or precinct levels, including masterplans for new developments and urban regeneration.
CRF'24 contains four segments and 22 goals that are designed to be aligned with how city and municipal departments and teams work.
It helps people to tackle key questions to identify priorities and achieve coordinated action across departments and groups.
The Urban 2.0 framework and system are designed to dovetail with CRF'24.
Read an interview about the CRF'24 - coming soon...
The City Resilience Profiling Tool (CRPT)
The City Resilience Profiling Programme (CRPP) is part of UN-Habitat’s Urban Resilience Programme. It is focuses on helping local level partners and stakeholders with urban diagnostics.
UN-Habitat developed the City Resilience Profiling Tool (CRPT) to provide a comprehensive approach for cities to analyse and build up their resilience to shocks and stresses.
The Urban 2.0 framework and system are designed to dovetail with the CRPT.
Read an interview about the CRPP and the CRPT - coming soon...
The MCR2030 Resilience Roadmap
(Making Cities Resilient) MCR2030 is an initiative for improving local resilience.
The MCR2030 approach is built around a three-stage resilience roadmap that guides cities on how to improve resilience over time. The resilience roadmap is flexible and iterative; cities can enter MCR2030 at any stage gaining access to a range of tools and technical advisory inputs delivered by different partners.
Frameworks with a specific focus
ISO 37120:2018 + ISO 37123:2019
ISO 37120:2018 defines and establishes methodologies for a set of indicators to steer and measure the performance of city services and quality of life. It follows the principles set out in ISO 37101 and can be used in conjunction with ISO 37101 and other strategic frameworks.
ISO 37123:2019 provides metrics to measure performance in a comparable and verifiable manner, irrespective of urban size or location. Maintaining, enhancing and accelerating progress towards improved city services and quality of life is fundamental to the definition of a resilient city, so this document is intended to be implemented in conjunction with ISO 37120.
C40 Climate Change Risk Assessment
This guide by C40 is designed to help cities conducting a climate change risk assessment (CCRA) in line with requirements of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) and C40 Cities. It describes the methodology and components of the assessment, and will be useful for cities undertaking, or commissioning, a comprehensive climate risk assessment.
The 8 80 Neighbourhood Diagnostic
The 8 80 Diagnostic Service is a professional assessment and participatory planning package used to harness the exceptional capacity within neighbourhoods, diagnose challenges, highlight opportunities, and provide recommendations to develop thriving, healthy, and sustainable public spaces at the neighbourhood scale.
Arsht-Rock Heat Action Platform
The Heat Action Platform is an engagement-oriented tool for city officials, practitioners, and financial institutions to find guidance, both existing resources and tailor-made solutions, on reducing the human and economic impacts of extreme heat at the regional or municipal level.
The platform offers opportunities to engage with world-leading experts across a diversity of disciplines to plan, fund, implement, and measure heat resilience actions.
The City Water Resilience Approach
The City Water Resilience Approach (CWRA) was developed to help cities grow their capacity to provide high quality water resources for all residents, to protect them from water-related hazards, and to connect them through water-based transportation networks (“provide, protect, connect”).
The Energy Resilience Framework
Comprised of three dimensions and underpinned by 11 goals, the framework explores leadership and strategy, economic and societal value as well as the physical infrastructure and its ecosystems and how to achieve the goals.
The DEAL toolkit
DEAL stands for Doughnut Economics Action Lab. The DEAL guide collects real-world approaches and examples that can be applied and adapted worldwide and at many scales - whether for a city or town, a village or rural region, a county or state. It is intended as a starting point for those who are new to Doughnut Economics, as well as those who are already familiar and engaging with the concepts.
The Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities
The Scorecard provides a set of assessments that allow local governments to assess their disaster resilience, structuring around UNDRR’s Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient. It also helps to monitor and review progress and challenges in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: 2015-2030 and supports the baseline analysis for preparation of the disaster risk reduction and resilience strategies.
The CURB Tool
By reducing their environmental footprint, cities will not only lower their contribution to global GHG emissions, but can also enjoy significant local benefits such as improved air quality, better health outcomes, local economic development and job creation. CURB is an interactive tool that is designed specifically to help cities take action on climate by allowing them to map out different action plans and evaluate their cost, feasibility, and impact.
