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{{Climate initiative
|Name of initiative=Joint Work Programme on Resilient Cities (JWP)
|LPAA initiative=No
|NAZCA Initiative=No
|Website address=http://www.citiesalliance.org/JWP-ResilientCities
|Starting year=2015
|Secretariat=Cities Alliance, Royale 94, 3rd Floor, Philanthropy House
1000 Brussels, Belgium

Contact:info@citiesalliance.org
|Organisational structure=The JWP is chaired by ICLEI – Local Governments for
Sustainability and is composed of 16 members, five observers and two knowledge partners. The Cities Alliance Secretariat is responsible for programme management in conjunction with the chair.
|Geographical coverage=Global
|Name of lead organisation=Cities Alliance
|Type of lead organisation=Network/Consortium/Partnership
|Location/Nationality of lead organisation=Belgium
|LPAA Theme Transport=No
|LPAA Theme Agriculture=No
|LPAA Theme Forestry=No
|LPAA Theme Business=No
|LPAA Theme Financial institutions=No
|LPAA Theme Buildings=No
|LPAA Theme Industry=No
|LPAA Theme Waste=No
|LPAA Theme Cities and subnational governments=Yes
|LPAA Theme Short Term Pollutants=No
|LPAA Theme International maritime transport=No
|LPAA Theme Energy Supply=No
|LPAA Theme Fluorinated gases=No
|LPAA Theme Energy efficiency=No
|LPAA Theme Renewable energy=No
|LPAA Theme Supply chain emission reductions=No
|LPAA Theme Adaptation=Yes
|LPAA Theme Other=No
|LPAA Theme Resilience=Yes
|LPAA Theme Innovation=No
|LPAA Theme Energy Access and Efficiency=Yes
|LPAA Theme Private Finance=No
|Description=To support cities in their efforts to become more resilient, Cities Alliance has established a multi-year Joint Work Programme (JWP) on Resilient Cities. The JWP brings together members and partners to promote local resilience strategies through inclusive, longterm, urban planning processes. In keeping with the niche of Cities Alliance, the JWP focuses specifically on addressing the resilience challenges of informal settlements and the working urban poor.
Launched at COP21 in December 2015 in partnership with the Medellin Collaboration on Urban Resilience, the JWP is unique within the resilience field. It is a new type of partnership, with a unique constellation of institutions: slum dweller networks, informal workers, city networks looking at resilience and climate change, combined with development partners, foundations,
knowledge partners and multilateral agencies. 
The JWP works with development partners to produce global knowledge, facilitate policy dialogues and support city-level diagnostics and policy recommendations.
The JWP is unusual in that it combines support for global knowledge, financing, tools and dialogue, and connects them with on-the-ground technical assistance and implementation. While many other resilience organisations focus on one or more of these aspects, the Cities Alliance
JWP brings them all together for a more holistic, integrated approach.
|Goals=The goal is to support growth trajectories increasingly characterised by equity, inclusion and environmental sustainability.
Objectives:
1. Convene diverse international organisations to work in partnership for more resilient and sustainable cities and communities.
2. Strengthen local governments by developing and piloting tools to integrate resilience into city planning and development strategies. 
3. Ensure urban poor groups are at the centre of citywide resilience solutions.
4. Support local governments and communities to access and deliver finance for resilience, with a focus on innovative global finance opportunities.
5. Drive the collection and application of innovative data tools for more risk-informed, resilient city development.
|Activities=The JWP implements its partnership approach through two focus areas, one aimed at the global level and the other at the local level, each with three sub-components:
Focus Area 1: Global partnerships to facilitate the flow of knowledge and resources to enhance city resilience, supporting the emerging Post-2015 framework, climate change and Habitat III processes. 
Focus Area 2: Promoting local resilience strategies through inclusive long-term urban planning
processes.
|Participants non-governmental organisations number=8
|Participants non-governmental organisations names=C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (United Kingdom), International Institute for Environment and Development - IIED (United Kingdom), 100 Resilient Cities (USA), Slum Dwellers International (South Africa), The Ecological Sequestration Trust (United Kingdom), Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing - WIEGO (United Kingdom), World Resources Institute - WRI (USA), Rockefeller Foundation (USA).
|Participants governmental actors number=3
|Participants governmental actors names=Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Switzerland), French Alliance for Cities and Territorial Development (France), GIZ (Germany).
|Participants intergovernmental organisations number=12
|Participants intergovernmental organisations names=OECD (France), World Bank (USA), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - UNISDR (USA), Inter-American Development Bank - IDB (USA), United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP (Kenya), UN-Habitat (USA), Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (USA), the International Institute for Environment and Development - IIED (United Kingdom), Inter-American Development Bank - IDB (USA), United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP (Kenya), UN-Habitat (Kenya), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - UNISDR (Switzerland),
|Participants supporting partners names=The JWP receives state-of-the-art research support from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN)
|Number of members={{Number of members
|Number of members year=2018
|Number of members value=23
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|Have only national states as participators=No
|Indicators information={{Indicators information
|Indicator=Technical dialogue;Knowledge dissemination and exchange;
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|Indicator=Technical dialogue;Knowledge production and innovation;
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|Indicator=Funding;Fundraising;
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|Indicator=Political dialogue;Norms and standard setting;
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|Indicator=Political dialogue;Policy planning and recommendations;
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|Goals mai=The long-term objective of the JWP is that cities are enabled to cope with current and future shocks and stresses and increasingly characterised by  environmentally sustainable and resilient urban development, especially for the urban poor. The medium term objectives include the following outcomes: Global mechanisms enhanced, Finance leveraged, Local Governments and Communities capacities enhanced, Resilience Plans adopted and the following outputs:  Knowledge Products and Policy Dialogues, Diagnostic Tools, Community-level data, Local Strategies and Plans.

In 2016, the JWP initiated three projects:
1) Citywide Climate Action Planning with a focus on energy management, utilizing the Climate action for URBan sustainability’ (CURB) tool, led by C40 and co-implemented with the World Bank and AECOM
2) Urban Community Resilience Assessments which assesses social cohesion, familiarity with local risks, early warning systems and disaster readiness at the neighborhood level, led by WRI and co-implemented with 100RC and SDI
3) Access to international resilience finance for projects in the Transformative Actions Programme, led by ICLEI working with World Bank
|Related initiatives={{Related initiative
|Initiative role=Related initiative
|Initiative=C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40)
|Initiative comments=Partnerships for Impact
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group 
Working together to develop city energy management plans that will identify issues, opportunities and investments related to supply, demand and access to energy in selected cities.
}}{{Related initiative
|Initiative role=Related initiative
|Initiative=Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
|Initiative comments=Member of the JWP
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|Initiative role=Related initiative
|Initiative=ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
|Initiative comments=ICLEI is Chair of the JWP
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