City resilience index

Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, and systems to adapt, survive, and grow in the face of stress and shocks, and even transform when conditions require it. The City Resilience Index (CRI) is the first comprehensive tool for cities to understand and assess their resilience, enhancing their ability to build sound strategies and plans for a strong future.

Developed as a partnership between The Rockefeller Foundation and Arup, and based on three years of research, the City Resilience Index is a powerful, tested tool that helps policy-makers and stakeholders understand and tackle these challenges in a systematic way. It incorporates a framework that many cities have already used to create resilience strategies. Whatever the specific threats a city faces, the City Resilience Index motivates cities to be future-focused and inclusive. Designed as a self-assessment, the tool generates a resilience profile that reveals a city’s specific strengths and weaknesses, creating a baseline to plan from and measure future progress against.

The tool includes four dimensions, 12 goals and 52 indicators, including a set of indicators on infrastructure and ecosystems. The CRI considers the robustness of infrastructure and ecosystems that protect us from natural hazards. The continuity of critical services, under shock or stress situations are also important within this dimension.