The SECURe framework: an approach to thinking about power and politics when using co-production interventions for urban resilience

This report presents the Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) approach which helps understand cities as ‘complex systems’. Understanding these dynamics is essential for finding urban resilience interventions that are aligned with the unique characteristics of each city. SECURe lays out an approach for establishing an appropriate entry point for developing urban resilience, analysing the institutional, cultural and environmental context of the city, and then determining the most appropriate type of change that the intervention can effectively achieve.

The approach aims to help achieve more sustainable, equitable and impactful urban resilience interventions. This, in turn, will help ensure that marginalised populations in vulnerable urban contexts are able to not only function, but flourish, despite the impacts of a changing climate. SECURe was produced through a co-creation process that drew on the work and lessons of over 100 participating organisations across Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.