USAID Urban Resilience Technical Guidance (April 2023)

It provides technical guidance on urban resilience, which is defined as the ability of people, households, communities, cities, countries, and systems to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from shocks and stresses. The guidance aims to help USAID staff better understand urban resilience and provides evidence-based, practical guidance on how it can be applied to Agency programming. It covers the case for urban resilience, approaches to advance urban resilience, key questions to inform the design of interventions, and sector guides for governance, health, and power. The document also outlines five building blocks to strengthen the resilience of urban systems: inclusive planning, governance, finance, social capital, and natural capital.