Overview
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Resilience Standards are a resource which can be used to help cities that have completed the UN DRR’s Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities to more effectively translate their results into concrete risk reduction measures and enhanced disaster resilience by applying a range of relevant standards. The resource contains references to relevant standards for each of the Sendai Framework’s Ten Essentials for making cities resilient in a searchable database.
Resources
Definitions
- Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities - A set of assessments that allow local governments to assess their disaster resilience.
- Resilience Standards - Formal documents that outline the criteria, methods, and requirements for achieving and demonstrating resilience.
- ANSI Accredited Organization - Standards development organizations accredited by The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for meeting its essential requirements for openness, balance, consensus, and due process.
- Designation - Unique combination of letters and numbers that serves as a reference about the standard's origin, subject, and date of publication or revision.
- Sendai Framework's 10 Essentials - Comprehensive guidelines to help cities build resilience against disasters and climate risks, offering practical checkpoints for local governments to assess and improve disaster risk reduction and urban resilience.
- Essential 1: Organize for Resilience - Assesses the existence of an effective organization and planning focus within the city, or building ownership/management, and its effectiveness in collaboration and sharing of information with internal and external stakeholders.
- Essential 2: Identify, Understand, and Use Current and Future Risk Scenarios - Assesses the understanding of disaster risks or hazards that the city or building owner/manager has.
- Essential 3: Strengthen Financial Capacity for Resilience - Addresses the “financial architecture” of disaster resilience – funding it, budgeting for it and protecting those funds.
- Essential 4: Pursue Resilient Urban Development - Addresses the development and application to the building of land use zoning and building codes that meet or exceed resilience requirements.
- Essential 5: Safeguard National Buffers - Addresses the extent to which the city or building preserves or, even better, enhances the protective functions offered by natural ecosystems.
- Essential 6: Strengthen Institutional Capacity for Resilience - Addresses the capability of cities or building owners/managers to identify risks and plan, prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. There are two broad areas - skills; and information sharing, availability and access.
- Essential 7: Increase Social and Cultural Resilience - Examines the effectiveness of community engagement in building resilience.
- Essential 8: Increase Infrastructure Resilience - Addresses how well the critical infrastructure systems within the city or around the building/facility will cope with the natural and man-made hazards/shocks they might experience, and how adaptive measures and contingencies have been developed to manage the risks.
- Essential 9: Ensure Effective Disaster Response - Addresses the effectiveness and completeness of disaster preparations by the city or building owner/manager, in conjunction with those of the city and other agencies.
- Essential 10: Expedite Recovery and Build Back Better - Deals with post disaster recovery – restarting life or economic activity in the city or building, executing repairs and learning from what happened to enable an improved response next time around.