Recommendations of actions for resilience and sustainability: Yakutsk

This profile and diagnosis provide a basis for the creation of evidence-based and implementable Actions for Resilience, which are designed to be incorporated into current urban development strategies and management processes of the city. This process is intended to support the City Administration of Yakutsk and its partners in making informed decisions and, in turn, support long-term resilient and sustainable urban development. The Recommendations of Actions for Resilience and Sustainability Report (RAR-S) presents the culmination of the work carried out throughout the CRPT implementation process and provides a summary overview of the analytical process through which the Actions for Resilience have been developed.

UN-Habitat has been working closely with the City Administration of Yakutsk to create a comprehensive profile of the city and recommend actions to improve its resilience through the City Resilience Global Programme (CRGP) and its associated City Resilience Profiling Tool (CRPT). The CRPT provides a universal framework that uses verifiable and contextualised city data to establish a resilience profile and create an analysis and diagnosis of its most urgent challenges.

With over half of the global population living in cities, and with around 3 billion more people expected to live in urban areas by 2050, cities are facing unprecedented demographic, environmental, economic, social and spatial challenges. Rapid urbanization coupled with new and magnified challenges resulting from climate change are resulting in more people facing more risk in our cities. Building resilience into cities is therefore essential if we are to ensure that development gains are not lost when cities are inevitably hit by shocks, stresses or challenges. UN-Habitat’s urban resilience work aims to support local governments and relevant stakeholders to transform urban areas into safer, more inclusive and better areas to live in, and improve their capacity to absorb, adapt and recover from these potential shocks and stresses, while transforming in a positive way towards sustainability.