Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) toolkit

This document presents a toolkit, or a practical step-by-step guide, to applying the Strengthening and Enhancing Contextual Urban Resilience (SECURe) framework. The SECURe framework is a structured approach through which researchers, policymakers and practitioners can understand urban power dynamics and inform the design of ‘urban labs’. 

Urban labs are collaborative and experimental platforms that bring together a wide range of city actors, including government, civil society, researchers and private businesses to co-design, test and implement innovative solutions addressing urban challenges such as resilience, sustainability and equitable development in real-world city environments. When designed strategically, urban labs can reduce differences in power between city actors and ultimately transform whose risk matters when it comes to urban development planning.