CAPE TOWN Resilience Strategy

1 CAPE TOWN. Resilience Strategy RESILIENT CAPE TOWN. Table of contents Introduction .. 6. What is Resilience ? .. 8. Prioritised shocks and stresses .. 9. Learning Resilience lessons from the drought: A whole city responds .. 12. Profile of Cape Town .. 16. 100RC: A network of cities building Resilience .. 17. Inspiration from the network .. 18. Developing the Resilience Strategy .. 20. Overview of the Strategy development process .. 20. The City Resilience Framework .. 22. Our Resilience challenge .. 24. Organisational commitment to Resilience .. 25. Capetonian commitment to 25. Strategy 26.

2 Guide to reading the Resilience actions .. 28. Pillar 1: Compassionate, holistically-healthy city .. 30. Goal : Increase awareness, Access to, and uptake of mental health support .. 32. Goal : Embrace a more holistic approach to policing and crime prevention to break the cycle of violence and decrease recidivism rates and trauma .. 36. Goal : Combat discrimination and build social cohesion .. 44. Goal : Promote a culture of health that increases well-being and decreases trauma .. 49. Pillar 2: Connected, climate-adaptive city .. 54. Goal : Grow partnerships that strengthen transportation systems and improve mobility.

3 56. Goal Engage communities and the private sector to improve public spaces .. 60. Goal : Build climate Resilience .. 67. Goal : Innovate for improved conditions, service delivery, and wellbeing in informal settlements .. 73. Pillar 3: Capable, job-creating city .. 76. Goal : Foster green economic growth .. 78. Goal : Enable enterprise development in the informal economy .. 83. Goal : Connect the workforce with a changing economy .. 87. Goal : Collaborate with business to achieve a resilient local economy .. 90. Pillar 4: Collectively, shock-ready 96. Goal : Future-proof urban systems.

4 98. Goal : Strengthen individual, family & community Resilience .. 107. Goal : Encourage responsible investment in household and business Resilience .. 112. Goal : Explore expanded options for accesing funding mechanisms for shock events .. 115. Pillar 5: Collaborative, forward-looking 118. Goal : Develop and approve portfolios of projects that maximise the Resilience dividend .. 120. Goal : Mainstream Resilience in city decision-making .. 123. Goal : Enhance knowledge management and data use .. 129. Goal : Monitor and evaluate Resilience outcomes .. 134. Annexures .. 138. Annexure 1: The City Resilience Framework.

5 138. Annexure 2: The City Resilience Index (CRI) .. 139. Annexure 3: Interdependencies of the Resilience -building actions in the Strategy .. 141. Annexure 4: Summary of actions including alignment with SDGS .. 142. Annexure 5: Qualities of a resilient city .. 151. Annexure 6: Alignment with other plans and strategies .. 152. Annexure 8: List of abbreviations .. 154. Annexure 9: End notes .. 155. The Resilience Strategy was approved by Council on 22 August 2019 (Item C04/08/19). Unless otherwise noted, all photos are courtesy City of Cape Town. Acknowledgements A message from the Executive Mayor INTRODUCTION.

6 The City of Cape Town is grateful to 100 Resilient Cities (100RC), pioneered by the Governance in the urban environment is becoming increasingly complex and Cape Town is not unique Rockefeller Foundation, for a grant that supported the development of the Cape Town in this regard. Cities around the world are confronted Resilience Strategy . The City is proud to have been selected from over a thousand cities by multiple challenges including climate change, from around the world to be part of this network committed to building urban Resilience . rapid urbanisation, technological advancement and globalisation.

7 Within this environment characterised by volatility and uncertainty, we are compelled to respond to a number of critical duties, including creating an enabling environment for job creation and overcoming the spatial injustices of our divided past. City Resilience Department Community, business and academic stakeholders We have a range of important projects and programmes laid out in the City's Integrated Gareth Morgan Megan Williams The Cape Town Resilience Strategy is a product of considerable Development Plan (IDP) which attempt to meet the aspirations and needs of all the stakeholder engagement both during the development of the residents of our city.

8 We are sometimes faced with unpredictable challenges, like we Preliminary Resilience Assessment for Cape Town and in the were with the drought. Thanks to our implemented water-saving strategies and the Cayley Green Lerato Skade validating of the draft Cape Town Resilience Strategy . The collective effort of over four million Capetonians, we were able to safely navigate that Resilience Department is appreciative to the more than 11 000 difficult time, with Cape Town displaying high Resilience capabilities. However, we need Capetonians who agreed to be interviewed in the face-to- to constantly work at improving Resilience as the nature and impact of other shock events Strategy partner face interviews during January and February 2018, and to the in our future may test us in different ways.

9 For this reason, we need to continually build approximately 200 thematic experts from community-based Resilience into our governance systems to ensure that we become better at adapting Arup organisations, non-governmental organisations, business, and thriving. academia and other spheres of government who shared their insights and advice during various stages of the Strategy Resilience is a guiding principle of the IDP. I welcome the approval by Council of the City Stakeholders development process. first ever Cape Town Resilience Strategy , which gives guidance on how the City and the whole of society can build Resilience to shocks and chronic stresses relevant to Cape Section 79 Committee on City Department of Town.

10 Contained in this Strategy are actions that government, households, businesses Sustainability and Resilience Policy and Strategy Organisations that supported the Strategy development process and civil society organisations can contribute to. City Department of Section 79 Committee on Organisational Effectiveness African Centre for Cities, GreenCape With this Strategy we join a unique group of cities around the world under the 100. Corporate Services and Innovation University of Cape Town Resilient Cities (100RC) Network, committed to confronting the environmental, social The Mayoral Committee and economic challenges of the 21st century.