Coastal Resilience Scorecard

What is it?

The Coastal Resilience Scorecard (CRS), is a free[1] tool that extends the UN City Disaster Resilience Scorecard (“the City Scorecard”) to provide in-depth coverage of the complex issues around building disaster resilience in coastal cities.  If application is repeated (for example, annually), it can also be used to track progress.

The CRS has been created by ARISE-US and Waterfront Alliance, with support from Global Development College and Fugro.

How does it work?

Like all ARISE Scorecards, the CRS is structured on the Sendai Framework’s Ten Essentials Of Disaster Risk Reduction.  These are summarized in Figure 1 below:

Figure 1: The Ten Essentials of Disaster Risk Reduction

Each section contains a set of questions. Questions are scored by the user, together with notes justifying each score, and a summary spreadsheet tool is available to accumulate scores and present them as a Euler diagram (also known as a radar chart).

The Scorecard comes in two versions:

• A preliminary (short-form) version, containing about 40 questions (to follow)
• A detailed (long-form) version, containing some 150 questions.

The short-form version can be used for an “initial look” at the city’s resilience, for consensus building workshops, and as an executive summary of the long-form version.  It may require 10 days to complete including set-up and write-up time.  The long-form version is used for conducting detailed assessments and may take several weeks depending on the level of detail required.

Who should use the CRS?

The CRS is intended to be used by any stakeholder in a coastal city’s resilience.  However, some Essentials require specialist expertise such as engineering, finance or planning. A typical user group might therefore consist of some combination of representatives from emergency management; mayor’s office; first responders (fire, police); engineering, planning and finance departments; public health; utilities; other city or state governments; business representatives; and community representatives.  (It is rare to have all these stakeholders from the start of the exercise).  The scorecard itself contains more details on stakeholders, under Essential 1 (Governance).

Who has used the CRS?

The CRS is brand new and has not yet been used.  However, it has been extensively peer reviewed and we are now actively seeking pilot user cities.

[1] The scorecard is freely available for any use whatsoever, including for-profit uses.