By Lauren Sorkin
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The theme of this year’s World Cities Day is Innovative Governance, Open Cities and it is in this spirit that Resilient Jakarta is carrying out its work. Over the past year, the Resilient Jakarta Secretariat has engaged key government agencies, academics, business leaders, and community representatives in conversations about the role of resilience in urban and development. These conversations have provided a preliminary resilience assessment, capturing Jakarta’s challenges and opportunities to build resilience moving forward.
Resilient Jakarta’s preliminary assessment identified civil unrest, disease outbreak and flooding as the top three acute shocks and access to safe, quality food, access to sustainable, clean water and poverty and economic inequality as the top three chronic stresses challenging resilience in the city.
When the Resilient Jakarta Secretariat releases its preliminary resilience assessment, the next step will be to ask the city hard questions about what kind of a future it wants to build. Questions like “how can we improve the governance and management capacity of Jakarta?” and “how can Jakarta’s health and wellbeing be improved through better waste and water management?” will guide the Secretariat as it develops the city’s resilience strategy. Working within 100RC’s global network, the Jakarta Secretariat has the unique capacity to learn from, and lean on, a vanguard of member cities and partners with applied experience integrating urban resilience into practice.
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