TBILISI Resilient Tbilisi A Strategy for 2030

2019 Edition LETTER FROM THE MAYOR OF TBILISI MR KAKHA KALADZE A resilient and vibrant city, where residents are protected and safe, where there is access to To all our collaborators in this strategy; our public, private, community opportunity and healthy natural and academic sector colleagues and IFI partners, Thank you for your invaluable contributions in developing Tbilisi’s first environments and where we are Resilience Strategy. Your support and suggestions to date have been instrumental. empowered to plan ahead, ready This is the first document of its kind for Tbilisi, addressing the main challenges and providing solutions that will help us elaborate a better respond to any challenge. strategic vision for our city’s development. Like many modern cities, Tbilisi is facing the common challenges of urban mobility, economic shifts, urban infrastructure and environmental protection whilst also planning for the potential shocks that every city must prepare for. By implementing Tbilisi Resilience Strategy, we aim to deal with all these issues in a comprehensive way, that supports robust economic growth and builds a resilient society for the future.

This work will require us to discard the silos in which we traditionally work, and collaborate across sectors, in new forms of partnership. Here, your continued support, ideas and expertise and will be key for the success of Tbilisi’s Resilience Strategy.

Being part of 100 Resilient Cities network gives us an excellent opportunity to learn from other cities to tackle our current challenges, what is the best approach to the problems and how we can share and adopt the knowledge accumulated over the years.

We as a local government, strongly support Tbilisi’s resilience journey. This strategy provides us a long-term vision for the city, and a roadmap to resilience, enabling us to act proactively. The resilience strategy is a major milestone for Tbilisi in its future development.

Sincerely,

Mr Kakha Kaladze Mayor

Tbilisi’s Resilience Strategy was produced by the Resilience Office of Tbilisi City Hall, with support from 100 Resilient Cities, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation. The strategy was developed in collaboration with strategic partners, BuroHappold Engineering.

Address: Tbilisi City Hall, 7 Shartava Street, Tbilisi, 0160 Georgia

Email: [email protected]

Resilient City Strategy 3 LETTER FROM TBILISI’S FIRST CHIEF RESILIENCE LETTER FROM 100 RESILIENT CITIES PRESIDENT OFFICER, ANA ARDELEAN MICHAEL BERKOWITZ

Each city has its unique resilience story to tell, and Tbilisi is no exception. Dear reader, To all international players and stakeholders working in Tbilisi and As Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi has a long history that goes back over fifteen It is a real honour on behalf of 100 Resilient reading this strategy: As a community centuries. Thanks to its key location on the crossroad of the east and west, Cities and the Rockefeller Foundation to you have an extremely important role to Tbilisi became an important cultural, political and economic center of the present to you this resilience strategy – play in this resilience conversation. We region, developing into a melting pot of oriental and western cultures, the first one of its kind, and hopefully the are happy to inform you that the city has whist still maintaining its strong identity. beginning of a new kind of era in Tbilisi done their homework, has worked hard to and in Georgia. map initiatives and priorities, they have Over time, the city has withstood many stages of destruction and also studied your areas of expertise and rebuilding. Residents of Tbilisi throughout history have spared no efforts We are extremely happy about our priority agendas, and has mapped where to enable the city to survive, by supporting each other to overcome natural partnership with the beautiful city of support is needed. This exercise is a first disasters and civil unrest. Together, we’ve ensured our city has progressed Tbilisi. A city of peace, of unification and attempt to make an honest assessment and prospered. of bridges between east and west and a of Tbilisi’s priorities for the future in order city of very resilient people. A city which to become resilient – to become that On 13th June 2015, Tbilisi experienced a devastating flash flood, that struck crisis after crisis, proves to the world how cultural power in the Caucasus, which is the centre of the city. This terrible shock became a turning point, and a they are capable of bouncing back and safe, healthy and liveable, equitable and catalyst for us to start thinking differently. It forced us to acknowledge our keep improving the lives of its citizens. provides a prosperous economic future city’s strengths and weaknesses, and spurred us to apply, successfully, to This is why we selected Tbilisi in 2014 for for all of its citizens. the 100 Resilient Cities network. our global pioneering network. Because its leadership understood, and continues At the beginning, it was challenging to establish a common understanding In order to make that happen, we need to understand that in order to address the of the concept of ‘resilience’. We first had to find an accurate translation you to be full part of the conversation. challenges of this era, a shift in model and of the term ‘resilience’ in Georgian. With the correct and suitable term Not only with your funding and financial a new way of dealing with crisis is needed. established, we then set about ensuring this important idea was firmly support, but mostly your expertise, your know- how, and your commitment to embedded into the minds of those responsible for tackling the city’s This is our role at 100 Resilient Cities-to help make this strategy go from paper, to challenges. support cities around the world become preparation and execution. more resilient to the shocks and stresses Tbilisi’s very first Resilience Strategy is a product of multiple partnerships of the XXI century. and collaborations with contributions from the academia, non- By adding all of these pieces of the puzzle, we will transform Tbilisi into the resilient governmental organizations, international organizations, public agencies Igniting a movement to rethink how urban city we all know it can be. and the private sector. Together we’ve come up with solutions that will governance needs to look like in this new help Tbilisi succeed in overcoming the city’s resilience challenges, and take globalised, urbanised and ever changing So I invite you to dive in, be critical, put a step towards a better future. world. your heart and mind into this resilience strategy, the same as the city has, and to We envisage Tbilisi to be a city that is protected and safe, a city that is We are extremely proud of having worked own it as if it were yours – because it is. We thriving, connected and accessible, and a city that mitigates and adapts to hard, hand by hand, with Ana Ardelean, count on you to be key thought partners climate change. We are convinced that we will achieve these commitments Tbilisi and Georgia’s first Chief Resilience and implementing actors of this strategy. and make Tbilisi more vibrant and livable for its residents and visitors alike. Officer, to better understand Tbilisi’s challenges in depth, engage stakeholders Being a member of the 100 Resilient Cities network is a tremendous Join the resilient conversation and let’s in a completely different way. opportunity for cities to learn and share from the best case study examples, make Resilient Tbilisi a reality for the generation of kids to inherit a city we all and enable them to become more sustainable and resilient. We are also thankful to Mayor Kahka for feel proud of. his leadership and vision around resilience In conclusion, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the 100 Resilient – and we expect that this commitment Cities network, and all contributors for their endeavor, strong support will continue supporting the work of the and inspiration. We are immensely thankful to our Strategy Partner resilience strategy, but taking it to the BuroHappold Engineering for their invaluable support and dedication. next level, institutionalizing resilience in all areas of government and the resilience Sincerely, office in the city. You have a unique Michael Berkowitz Sincerely, opportunity to position your city as a President of 100 Resilient Cities - leader and disruptor in the urban field in Ms. Ana Ardelean Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundaiton the region and the world. Let’s ensure it Chief Resilience Officer, Tbilisi. happens.

4 Resilient City Strategy 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Advancing confidently beyond the political and social upheavals of the 1990s and early 2000s, Tbilisi today is a vibrant, diverse, city and a growing tourism and business destination.

The city has been able to resist This Strategy is organised into three polarisation, crime and political instability missions which reflect the city’s caused by economic transition, civil communities’ aspirations and needs for war and two territorial conflicts. Tbilisi’s Tbilisi’s future. The development of the population has shown exceptional strategy has been made possible by 1 2 social cohesion and has been described the commitment and contributions of as “being able to mobilise and face many government agencies, institutions challenges with common sense” – in and groups within our city, and we A city that is thriving, other words, resilient. will continue to collaborate widely to A city that is implement this strategy. protected and safe connected and --- accessible Mission 1: A city that is protected and In May 2016, Tbilisi was selected to be safe - seeks to engage and inform all part of the 100 Resilient Cities Network - Tbilisi’s residents around risk reduction an initiative pioneered by the Rockefeller so they can be prepared, ready to Foundation. respond to any event. This incorporates actions and investments to make our The 100 Resilient Cities program homes, kindergartens and city safer. supports the introduction and integration A resilient and vibrant city, where residents of a vision of resilience that includes Mission 2: A city that is thriving, not only sudden shocks (earthquakes, connected and accessible - aims are protected and safe, floods, epidemics, etc.) but also chronic to connect residents to economic 3 where there is access to events or stresses, that weaken the opportunities and enhance quality of life opportunity and healthy fabric a city every day or cyclically (high in Tbilisi for both residents and visitors. natural environments and unemployment, inefficient transport This mission incorporates actions to A city that mitigates systems, poor air or water quality etc.). diversify Tbilisi’s economic sectors, and we are empowered to plan By mitigating the sudden and chronic ensure access across the city is efficient and adapts to ahead, ready respond to any events, a city may improve its ability to and inclusive for all. climate change respond effectively and provide better challenge. basic services to the population. Mission 3: A city that mitigates and adapts to climate change - draws --- together actions that look ahead and address the long-term effects of climate This strategy is about Tbilisi’s residents, change. This incorporates actions to and building a vibrant city, ready to invest in strengthening our infrastructure respond to any challenge. and ecosystems, to ensure they can serve Resilient Tbilisi sets a comprehensive and protect Tbilisi in the future. roadmap for 2030. It provides a set of Missions, Goals, and Actions for building resilience in Tbilisi.

6 Introduction Resilient City Strategy 7 READING THIS STRATEGY ABOUT 100 RESILIENT CITIES

This strategy is about Tbilisi’s people, and building a resilient and vibrant city, ready to respond to any challenge. It is organized into three parts: TbilisiTbilisi OUR RESILIENCE STORY Our resilience story shows how we coped with challenges in the past, and sets Tbilisi’s vision for a resilient future.

10 Introduction

12 Learning From Our Past

14 Tbilisi Today

16 A Resilience Approach

18 Our Resilience Challenges & Opportunities Cities in 20 Developing our Resilience Strategy 100 22 Partnership & Collaborations Resilient Cities 24 Building Resilience into Tbilisi’s Strategies and Plans Network 26 A Vision for a Resilient Tbilisi

OUR RESILIENCE MISSIONS AND ACTIONS This section presents the three missions for resilience, the goals we are setting ourselves, and the individual actions we are planning to take.

32 Mission 1 A city that is protected and safe 100 Resilient Cities (100RC), pioneered 1. Financial and logistical guidance by the Rockefeller Foundation, is for establishing an innovative new 52 Mission 2 dedicated to helping cities around the position in city government, a Chief A city that is thriving, connected and accessible world become more resilient to the Resilience Officer, who will lead the 76 Mission 3 physical, social, and economic challenges city’s resilience efforts, A city that mitigates and adapts to climate change that are a growing part of the 21st century. 100RC supports the adoption 2. Expert support for development of a and incorporation of a view of resilience robust resilience strategy, NEXT STEPS that includes not just the shocks but also 3. Access to solutions, service Developing this strategy is just the first step in our the stresses that weaken the fabric of providers, and partners from the a city on a day to day or cyclical basis. journey towards a more resilient future. This outlines private, public and NGO sectors By addressing both the shocks and the how we will act to anchor this resilience strategy in who can help them develop and stresses, a city becomes more able to the city. implement their resilience strategies, respond to adverse events, and is overall and better able to deliver basic functions 96 Next Steps for the Resilience Strategy in both good times and bad, to all 4. Membership of a global network of populations. member cities who can learn from 98 Implementation Timeline and help each other. 100 Public Sector Support for Implementation Cities in the 100RC network are provided with the resources necessary to develop Through these actions, 100RC aims not 103 IFI & Private Sector Support for Implementation a roadmap to resilience along four main only to help individual cities become 106 Monitoring & Evaluating the Strategy pathways: more resilient, but will facilitate the building of a global practice of resilience 108 Acknowledgments among governments, NGOs, the private 109 References sector, and individual residents.

110 Glossary

8 Resilient City Strategy 9 A RESILIENT TBILISI INTRODUCTION

Yet, alongside growing success, several key questions emerge:

• Is the city’s economy sufficiently This strategy not only gives balanced to ride out potential future shocks and stresses and is a voice to important cross- it sufficiently inclusive to provide sector challenges, but also opportunity and prosperity for all provides five roadmaps for residents? tackling them successfully. • What measures can be taken to ensure Tbilisi’s aging housing stock provides high quality affordable living conditions for its residents in future? • Can the city’s environmental challenges be overcome to provide a safer, more sustainable city which supports a higher, healthier standard Urban Resilience of living for its residents? is the capacity of • Have the lessons learnt from the individuals, communities, catastrophic floods of 2015 ensured residents, businesses and government institutions, businesses and are now better prepared to plan for systems within a city to and respond to the wide range of survive, adapt and grow natural hazard events which the city potentially faces? no matter what kinds of • Could congestion and car use in chronic stresses and acute Advancing confidently Throughout its history, Tbilisi has been the city be reduced to increase shocks they experience. beyond the political and social a multicultural city with a mixture of accessibility and economic access upheavals of the 1990s and ethnic Georgians, Armenians, Azeris, whilst also improving and enhancing (with significant Jewish and Kurdish the experience of the city for both early 2000s, Tbilisi today is communities) and Russians living residents and visitors? a vibrant, diverse, city and a alongside each other with a tolerance of growing tourism and business ethnic and religious differences. • What proactive measure can be taken destination. by the city to mitigate and adapt to In this decade, the city has emerged as the risks of climate change and local a strong business hub and many foreign The city has been able to resist the environmental degradation? By developing a Resilience banks have established a presence in the polarisation, crime and political instability city attracted by its strategic location on Strategy, Tbilisi becomes caused by economic transition, civil major trade and pipeline routes. war and two territorial conflicts. Tbilisi’s Tbilisi’s Resilience Strategy more able to respond population has shown exceptional This growth in finance and trade has brings an opportunity to to adverse events and social cohesion and has been described been complemented by a growing as “being able to mobilise and face tourism industry bringing rapidly rising address these challenges better able to deliver basic challenges with common sense” – in visitor numbers to Tbilisi and Georgia as directly, providing a platform functions, especially to the other words, resilient. a whole, drawn by landscape, heritage, cuisine and an exceptionally welcoming for our city’s confident growth more vulnerable in the city. culture. and development.

10 City of Tbilisi Resilient City Strategy 11 LEARNING FROM OUR PAST: Tbilisi has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to recover from the diverse challenges the city has faced throughout its past. Resilience is very much embedded within the city’s history, and we can learn a lot from how we coped with shocks and stresses in the past

1917 1920-1950s 1991 2002 2003 2008 2015 2016 Independence from Urban Growth Georgia gains Earthquake Civil Unrest August War 13th June Flooding EU Association Russian Empire Independence after the Agreement & DCFTA collapse of the Soviet Union

Georgia, Armenia and In the 1920s, the city’s 15% of Tbilisi’s population The earthquake Vast demonstrations Conflict between 21 people were killed, and The Deep and Comprehensive Azerbaijan became population was only 160,000, migrated to Russia, the killed 6 and protested against Georgia and over 1000 individuals lost Free Trade Area (DCFTA) the Transcaucasian however due to economic majority of these were injured dozens. A allegedly falsified Russia, resulted their homes or businesses. Agreement introduced a Democratic Federative development in the region, educated professional workers. significant proportion parliamentary in loss of Tbilisi zoo was severely preferential trade regime, Republic, with Tbilisi the city’s population increased After declaring independence, of the city’s election results. The constitutional damaged, killing numerous increasing market access and as the Capital. almost fivefold by the 1950s. Georgia entered into territorial housing became revolution ended with control over animals and releasing regulatory alignment between disputes, and civil armed uninhabitable, and the resignation of significant some out of captivity. the EU and Georgia. conflict - aka the ‘Tbilisi War’. structurally unsafe. the president. Crime territories. Tbilisi Crime, corruption, poverty, Older infrastructure declined, and economic was targeted by and unemployment increased, was also particularly and real estate growth multiple Russian whilst the economy collapsed. affected. improved with greater air attacks stability.

2017 RESPONSE Visa Free travel in Tbilisi becomes an RESPONSE Schengen countries in influential city Local governance the region. The first reforms are established. This event stimulated University in the RESPONSE migration to Europe Caucasus Region Over the next decade, resulting in the City losing was opened in Tbilisi. the city was able to RESPONSE its workforce as people left recover economically, The Municipality initiated to overcome poverty. RESPONSE whilst rebuilding various infrastructure Tbilisi continued to evolve social institutions and projects in the affected into an important political, RESPONSE RESPONSE reconciling civil conflicts. Tbilisi had to accommodate area, including river economic and cultural The City and National large numbers of internally monitoring systems. centre and a major tourist Governments need to RESPONSE displaced people (IDPs). Several destination. Tbilisi’s Metro stabilise the economy For the purposes of programs were launched, centred opened in 1966. further rehabilitation, a and curb unemployment on integration and support to in order to have greater fund was established assimilate these communities. concentrating sufficient potential for growth. financial resources. RESPONSE Economic activity in Tbilisi was promoted as local businesses explored trading opportunities with the EU.

12 City of Tbilisi Resilient City Strategy 13 TBILISI TODAY

EMPLOYMENT BY SECTOR 503 km2 In 2007, Tbilisi expanded its city total land area administrative boundaries to incorporate Other 15% several rural settlements into the city. 28% Retail & Wholesale trade The city is currently divided into Information & Communications 4% 10 districts, of varying size, density, living standards Education 4% and infrastructure quality. Administrative & Support Activities 5% Hospitality 5% 11% Construction Transportation & Logistics 8% Manufacturing 9% 11% Healthcare

TbIlisi’s Share of Tbilisi’s economy has been GROWING National GDP STEADILY, at a rate of 10% per annum

42% ECONOMY & SOCIETY YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT is 36% compared to 17% average across the EU

Sources: National Statistics Office of Georgia (GeoStat), 2016-2018. Deloitte Growth Sector (2019), http://ec.europa.eu/ eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/File:Unemployment_rates,_seasonally_adjusted,_December_2017_(%25)_F2.png

Tbilisi’s population is now predicted to Three key trends are at play: decline by 1.1% by 2030. • Tbilisi’s population is aging GEOGRAPHY & DEMOGRAPHICS

1,180,000 • A significant number of people are migrating 30% to other countries. According to 2014 General Of Georgia 1,160,000 Population Census, most of Georgia’s 1,140,000 international emigrants were from Tbilisi itself. 1,120,000 • There is a demographic deficit (or gap) FORESTS & GREEN SPACE 1,160,000 1,100,000 created by the lower birth rate experienced WATER RESOURECS people live in Tbilisi 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 through the upheaval of the 1990s. Natural ecosystems can be difficult Tbilisi Sea provides 40% of to sustain within the city of Tbilisi, drinking water for the city. The due to dry climate conditions Mtkvari (or Kura) River, runs and anthropogenic factors. In the through the centre of Tbilisi. outskirts, approximately 8106 ha is covered by green vegetation

WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS Drainage and storm water The city is serviced by buses, networks require significant Between 2011 and 2016 mode share of cars maintenance in some areas. Heavy INCREASED from 19% to 30% mini buses, metro and cable rain places considerable stress on cars but coverage is currently the drainage sysetm. limited. In 2016, 20% of all car trips occurred on The bus and metro networks HISTORIC CITY ASSETS distances of LESS THAN 1.5 KM have potential to increase ARCHITECTURAL ASSETS in both frequency and Tbilisi’s Historic District is People often DRIVE SHORT coverage. recognised by UNESCO METRO SYSTEM as a potential site of DISTANCES instead of WALKING Tbilisi’s metro comprises of two world heritage. BROWNFIELD SITES lines, serving 23 stations. Many industrial sites across the city were abandoned following the economic decline of the MOBILITY & ACCESSIBILITY early 1990s, and are now ready for development. Source: Household Transport Survey, Systra (2016)

14 Resilient City Strategy 15 A RESILIENCE APPROACH City Resilience Framework

What is resilience?

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Resilient systems possess seven Environmental REFLECTIVE using past experience to Safeguardsfor critical qualities that enable them to provision infrastructure Alternative inform future decisions of services withstand, respond to and adapt more readily to shocks and stress by taking appropriate or prompt action.

RESOURCEFUL ROBUST REDUNDANT recognizing alternative well–conceived, spare capacity ways to use resources constructed, and purposively created managed systems to accommodate disruption The City Resilience Framework encompasses all aspects of urban development, from natural and built assets to residents’s wellbeing, and socio-economic issues, underpinned by effective leadership and governance. FLEXIBLE INCLUSIVE INTEGRATED The CRF provides a frame of reference willingness and ability Wide-ranging bring together a range to adopt alternative consultation and sharing of distinct systems and through which the complexity of the a strategies in response to in decision-making institutions changing circumstances processes city can be analysed. This was used to design Tbilisi’s Resilience Strategy.

16 City of Tbilisi Resilient City Strategy 17 SHOCKSTBILISI’S ANDRESILIENCE STRESSES CHALLENGES

We face a series of KEY SHOCKS KEY STRESSES OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESILIENCE interconnected challenges... Flooding Unemployment Challenges Celebrating the collective nature of The Preliminary Resilience Assessment Tbilisi’s geomorphology, malfunctioning drainage Despite the strong economic growth, the society in Tbilisi identified nine interconnected resilience system and imperfectly controlled construction unemployment rate in the city, 22.5%, is relatively high, Social relations between residents in Tbilisi are challenges. These set the foundations for contribute greatly to its vulnerability to rainfall related particularly amongst the 15-29 year old section of the strong, creating a stable and safe society. The city has this strategy. floods and they can bring considerable damage to the population (36%), compared to only 17% across the EU. been able to resist polarisation, crime and political city population. During the industrialisation of the city, instability caused by the economic transition, civil war The projects within Tbilisi’s Resilience much of the industrial infrastructure was built into the Lack of Regulations, Standards and territorial conflicts of recent decades. ravines, which today have become unsafe areas, due to Strategy are designed to address & Enforecement the risk of flooding. The 2015 post-flood period in the city successfully the city’s shocks and stresses in a Since the fall of the Soviet Union, no comprehensive demonstrated an ability to mobilise rapidly and comprehensive and integrated manner. During the June 2015 floods, heavy rainfall in the Vere building codes have been established in Georgia, as collaborate effectively across different levels of civil basin and its tributaries triggered large scale landslides deregulation aiming to boost investment removed all society, government and private sector. Over ten In resilience terms, a shock is a sudden and debris flows, putting the Tskneti-Samadlo and ‘obstacles’ to fast and cheap construction. Various thousand volunteers self-mobilised quickly to help or acute event that threatens Tbilisi’s Tsnketi-Akhaldaba motorways out of use. Residential regulations, for fire protection, construction quality, with cleaning flooded territories and providing basic buildings and miscellaneous infrastructural facilities, utility checks and maintenance for example, are now supplies to affected populations. The private sector immediate wellbeing. A shock could be buildings and structures and Tbilisi Zoo located at the being put in place. However, there remains a lack and other supportive governments provided financial an earthquake, infrastructure failure, an low elevations in the River Vere Gorge were significantly of technical and legal institutions to enforce these support reaching over 25 million GEL, and several extreme weather event, or civil unrest. damaged or/and totally destroyed. Over 21 people standards and regulations. banks paused loan repayments for affected people. were killed, and over 1000 people lost their homes or The collective and self-organising nature of the city’s 100RC encourages cities to adopt and businesses. Deteriorating Housing Stock residents is a great asset and fundamental in building incorporate a view of resilience that resilience capacity. Seismic Risk A large proportion of Tbilisi’s housing stock dates back includes not just the shocks, but also the to the Soviet era. The vast majority of the housing stock stresses that weaken the fabric of a city Tbilisi is located in a region of potentially high seismic is privately owned, but occupiers are often unable to Encouring economic diveristy activity. However, as yet, the tectonics near and around afford the remediation and repair costs of these multi- on a day to day, or cyclical basis. Building on economic growth to support a wide range Tbilisi have not been fully investigated. The vulnerability family blocks. This increases running costs, reduces of economic sectors will strengthen both the city and of many old, soviet-era, multi-story buildings to quality of life for many residents, and poses a significant A stress is a daily or chronic challenge national economic performance, but also provide earthquake shaking is quite high. The most recent risk of damage or collapse in the event of a physical that weakens Tbilisi’s natural built, or economic opportunities to a broader range earthquake in 2002 left a significant proportion of shock, such as an earthquake. of residents. human resources. Examples include housing uninhabitable and structurally unsafe. The city climate change, aging infrastructure, is currently lacking the information needed to develop inequity, homelessness and poor air seismic risk regulations for new constructions too. Lack of Adequate Public Strengthening public quality. Stresses can amplify the effect of Mobility Systems transport systems Infrastructure or Building Failure a shock when it occurs, particularly for Often the frequency and capacity of the bus service Addressing the challenges in public transport vulnerable populations. Despite investments in selected sites, there is is not sufficient even for the existing demand, and provision will enhance accessibility across the city for considerable need to replace existing aging overcrowding is very common, even in off-peak By addressing both the shocks and infrastructure to meet the requirements generated by periods. The mobility for people with disabilities around both residents and visitors, and reduce air pollution. stresses, a city becomes more able to urban redevelopment and expansion. Renovation of the city is problematic, as Public Transport services respond to adverse events, and is overall aging Infrastructure, including housing, roads, bridges are not currently suitably adapted, and pedestrian and utilities, still remains one of the main priorities infrastructure is in poor condition. People are therefore Improving Tbilisi’s building stock better able to function in both good of the city. At present, approximately 330 residential increasingly using private vehicles instead of public Renewing and reinforcing Tbilisi’s building stock will times and bad, for all its residents. blocks are damaged and every third block is in a force transport, 19% in 2011 growing to 30% in 2016. enhance energy efficiency, reduce running costs and majeure condition. This is especially dangerous as Tbilisi allow better service provision and housing conditions lies in a seismically active zones. Inadequate capacity in the for residents. ...but there are many kindergarten system Landslides and Ground Instability opportunities to bring Recent assessments indicate that some of Tbilisi’s In the aftermath of the 13 June floods, a preliminary 180 kindergarten buildings are structurally unsound Preserving Tbilisi’s Cultural Heritage about change slope stability hazard map was created by a team and prone to unprompted isolated collapse; likely as and Tourism sector of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest a result of historically poorly defined/applied building Service staff working together with Georgia’s National standards, exacerbated by limited maintenance. Residents are proud of these sectors, and they are The Preliminary Resilience Assessment Environmental Agency. This map indicates that between providing a positive impact on the economy and jobs. The current capacity of kindergartens is also not also highlighted key areas of strength 8% and 11 % of the entire Vere River drainage basin is sufficient to meet existing demand, resulting in some and opportunity for Tbilisi. These form characterized by either potentially high or moderate slope stability hazards. children being unable to access education (creating a Repurposing brownfield sites the foundations from which we have built constraint for families) and others being educated in for resilience the vision and goals of this Resilience unacceptably large group sizes. The large number of brownfield sites in and around Strategy. the city’s centre represents significant development Poor Air Quality potential for Tbilisi. These sites could be re-purposed PM 2.5 levels across the city are above the WHO to provide space for housing renewal programmes, recommended guidelines and studies have found that transportation improvements, new economic dust (primarily from construction sites), carbon, sulphur activities. or flood alleviation. and nitrogen oxides from transport emissions also all significantly exceed maximum permissible levels in Tbilisi.

18 City of Tbilisi Resilient City Strategy 19 DEVELOPING OUR RESILIENCE STRATEGY This strategy outlines the key resilience opportunities the CRO and city are committed to delivering between now and Phase I of our approach is all about Resilience Assessment (PRA), and 2030. understanding the resilience issues identified Discovery Areas, which are facing Tbilisi. At the end of this process, thematic areas around which deeper we produced an initial assessment of the analysis and broader engagement was city’s resilience known as the Preliminary undertaken in the next stage. Resilience Strategy Launch Implementing the Strategy May 2019

The Agenda Setting Workshop bought together over 100 representatives from the Approximately 350 stakeholders from across city, state and national level , representing government, business, academia, international City Government, businesses, NGOs, academia and 100RC partners, in the organisations, NGOs and community groups were first milestone for developing Tbilisi’s engaged throughout the development of Tbilisi’s Resilience Strategy. Drafting our Resilience Strategy IFI & Strategic Together, participants assessed the current Resilience Strategy Partners Convening and future resilience challenges and opportunities for Tbilisi. November 2018 - November 2018 March 2019

Preliminary Resilience Assessment (PRA) and identification of Discovery Areas April 2018 Diagnostic Work, identifying projects and contributing to the revised City Masterplan

May – November 2018

Appointment of City Agenda Setting Resilience Officer Workshop (CRO) January 2017 May 2017 Further research and interviews enabled us to improve our understanding of the issues, and uncover potential opportunities and actions. The revision of Tbilisi’s masterplan presented the opportunity to ensure resilience principals were integrated into plans for the future development of the city. Ana Ardelean was appointed as Tbilisi’s first Chief Resilience Officer

Tbilisi selected to TBILISI join 100RC network

May 2016 Phase II focused on a combination to implement change. This resulted in of technical analysis, and strategic new ideas for projects and prioritised stakeholder alignment and engagement. initiatives that will have the greatest During this phase, we developed the impact. Discovery Areas in to opportunities

20 City of Tbilisi Resilient City Strategy 21 DEVELOPING THIS STRATEGY THROUGH WORKING TOWARDS A RESILIENT TBILISI PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATION IFI & STRATEGIC PARTNERS CONVENING

Building resilience is fundamentally On 12 November 2018, Tbilisi’s IFI & about sharing knowledge, creating and Partners Convening bought together expanding partnerships. over 100 representatives from major funders, diplomatic corps, development To address the complex and interrelated institutions, banks, the Ministry of issues Tbilisi will face in the future, we Resilient Tbilisi Finance, Tbilisi City Hall and other need to discard the silos in which we is the result of important actors, with the aim of traditionally work in order to: many existing and emerging fostering key partnerships and building • Obtain multiple perspectives and partnerships support for the implementation of the approaches, Resilience Strategy.

• Leverage the resources and expertise Participants were invited to collaborate, of multiple stakeholders in developing and refining a selection of priority projects needing expertise, This strategy was therefore developed ownership and funding. in collaboration with hundreds of colleagues across municipal and national Collaborative Support government, academia, the IFI sector and and feedback the 100 Resilient Cities Network across from over 100 international the world. participants in Tbilisi’s IFI & Mayor Kaladze Strategy Partners Convening opening the IFI & Strategic Partners Conference

Over 35 survey 100s of discussions with responses City Hall experts sharing the general from the Urban Development, public’s perceptions Environmental Protection, of shocks & stresses Transport and Economic Development Departments and Tbilisi’s Kindergarten Management Agency

Collaborative feedback from Over 50 Focus Earthquake participants at Tbilisi’s Local Group participants Assets & Risks Economic Development sharing ideas on themes Workshop Forum, International Day of Mobility, Disability & with contributions of Disaster Risk Reduction Accessibility and Youth from 35 cross sector event and 4th National Engagement city stakeholders Climate Adaptation Workshop

Support and Over 60 Expertise Many valuable from London conversations with consultation from the interviews national Ministry of with cross-sector School of Resilience Officers in Economy & Sustainable experts from Economics Bristol, Thessaloniki, Paris, Development, Ministry of academia, NGOs Cities Executive Rotterdam and Amman Labour, Health & Social and private sector MSc programme sharing lessons learnt and Affairs, and Ministry of perspectives on international best Environmental Protection practice & Agriculture

22 City of Tbilisi Resilient City Strategy 23 BUILDING RESILIENCE IN TBILISI

Several major strategies and planning For this reason, this strategy places special efforts are already contributing to Tbilisi’s emphasis on collaboration, and invites EU Association Caucasus UN Sustainable UNESCO World resilience, operating at the local, national stakeholders from the private sector, Agreement Disaster Risk Development Heritage Centre and even international scale. These plans academia, NGOs and IFIs to join the effort. (2016) Management Goals complement each other to outline the We recognise and value the accumulated Initative recognises Tbilisi’s builds political (UNISDR) Historic District as a path Tbilisi is taking to achieve its future knowledge and experience held by association and provides a shared candidate on the World economic integration blueprint for peace and Heritage List as the development goals. our city’s stakeholders, and value the and freedom of identifies prosperity for people most representative movementbetween and the planet, now and outstanding piece contributions many can make to the STRATEGIES socio-economic loss the EU and Georgia potential and hazard and into the future. of urban heritage in The concept of resilience appears across city’s development. INTERNATIONAL risk across the Georgia. many of these documents, however Caucus region. often they focuses upon either urban Tbilisi’s Resilience Office development, economic development or climate change, rather than the holistic, Within Tbilisi City Hall, we will establish a multi-sector approach described by 100 City Resilience Office, under the Mayor’s Natural Disaster National Resilient Cities. administration. This office, headed by the Prevention and Sustainable Chief Resilience Officer will be tasked with Tbilisi’s Resilience Strategy establishes Rapid Response Energy Policy implementing Tbilisi’s Resilience Strategy, an overarching approach to resilience, Unit (2017) in close collaboration with the Heads of which works with, and is aligned to other Integrates disaster ensure security of international, national and city policies. Department of City Hall and other key prevention, early water energy supply and and post-disaster improving Georgia’s These links are highlighted throughout the partners. recovery infrastructure overall energy strategy and its actions. planning. security.

The aims of Resilient Tbilisi can only be Tbilisi’s Resilience Office has a key role achieved through local, national and to become a platform for the City to international partnerships. This strategy convene with strategic international National Covenant of Environmental services as a foundation for working with and IFI partners, and coordinate action Mayors (2014) these partners. Action Plan

across multiple sectors NATIONAL STRATEGIES (2014) committing to Integrating Resilience into Tbilisi City Hall increasing energy provides actions efficiency and use and targets to tackle of renewable energy The Resilience Office will be responsible for: environmental issues sources on their The long lasting changes set by this nationally. territories. strategy aim to support Tbilisi in becoming • Monitoring and updating the Resilience better positioned to deliver basic functions Strategy; and respond to adverse shocks and stresses, especially to the most vulnerable • Supporting the creation of a network in the city. of organisations and stakeholders Sustainable Green City Resilient Tbilisi who work in the field of resilience to Land Use Local This will only be possible if it is embraced Masterplan Economic Urban Mobility Action Plan (2019-2030) promote good practices; and owned by all agencies, residents and (2019) Development Plan (2017-2030) businesses, not just by on resilience office in Plan (2018) (2019-2030) builds upon • Promoting a culture of resilience; sets the course includes measures existing strategies Tbilisi City Hall. develops an to improve areas This may involve coaching different for Tbilisi’s promotes a by highlighting future urban economic such as water development significant transport and wastewater complementary municipal departments in planning, development modal shift, from agenda for Tbilisi. services, solid actions, expanding private car to waste management, developing annual priorities and setting public and active energy, local initiatives to include budgets in an integrated, cross- transport. industry a resilience approach, development, and department way; energy efficiency and identifying new and transport opportunities to incorporate disaster • Coordinating multi-sector grant and CITY STRATEGIES risk management funding applications, with departments and climate change at Tbilisi City Hall, and other key adaptation in the stakeholders to implement actions that development of the city. make Tbilisi stronger and more resilient.

24 Introduction Resilient City Strategy 25 Vision for a Resilient Tbilisi “A resilient and vibrant city, where residents are protected and safe, where there is access to opportunity and healthy natural environments and where we are empowered to plan ahead, ready respond to any challenge.”

26 Resilient City Strategy 27 Actions TBILISI’S STRATEGY MISSIONS AND ACTIONS 42 1. Accelerating the structural assessment and rehabilitation programme for Tbilisi’s kindergartens 2. Ensuring kindergarten spaces for all eligible children A resilient and vibrant city, where 3. Engaging the community in redesigning kindergartens for the future residents are protected and safe, 4. Integrating energy efficient, and green space solutions into rehabilitating Tbilisi’s kindergartens where there is access to opportunity 5. Working with Tbilisi’s Architecture Biennale for resilience and healthy natural environments and we are empowered to plan ahead, 6. Microzonation Study for Seismic Risk ready respond to any challenge. 7. Safe Housing Rehabilitation and Development Fund

8. Establish an Emergency Response Committee for Tbilisi 9. Develop an Initial Disaster Response and Recovery Plan for Tbilisi 10 10. Community Emergency Preparedness and Risk Awareness Goals training programme 11. Emergency Response Preparedness Programme in kindergartens 1. Build resilient and inspiring kindergartens 2. Provide safe housing in safe locations for 12. Landslide and Ground Instability Risk Assessment all residents 13. Multi Hazard Risk Assessment & Early Warning System A city that is Coordinate an Emergency Response Plan protected 3. 14. Brownfield and Industrial Development Strategy for Tbilisi that empowers residents to 1 and safe 15. Resilient Transit Orientated Development for Tbilisi’s new metro stations be prepared 16. Supporting our new and growing economic sectors 4. Equip decision-makers with information to 17. Improve understanding of skills gaps workforce trends reduce risks from natural hazards 18. Tbilisi Business Accelerator 19. Hospitality Skills Training Programme 5. Connect all residents with economic opportunities 20. Tourism Strategy and Action Plan for Tbilisi 21. Promoting Diverse and Inclusive Visitor Activities A city that 6. Grow a resilient tourism economy, that 22. Building Capacity for Safeguarding, Preserving and Managing Tbilisi’s is thriving, celebrates Tbilisi’s cultural assets, and Historic District 2 connected and enhances quality of life for residents 23. A People-Centered Night-Time Economy accessible 24. Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan Develop active and inclusive 7. 25. Mtkvari River Tourism Transport Study transport systems 26. Develop Tbilisi’s ‘Street Manual’ for cycling+walking+public transport 27. A resilient and user-friendly bus network Develop Tbilisi’s approach to Climate 8. 28. Intelligent Transport Management Systems Change Adaptation A city that 29. Elaborate a Climate Change Strategy for Tbilisi mitigates and 9. Protect healthy natural environments 30. Action Plan for Public Environmental Awareness adapts to 31. Infrastructure Climate Change Adaptation Commitment 3 climate change 10. Act to diversify energy sources and 32. Rehabilitating Tbilisi’s Parks for Resilience reducing consumption 33. Restoring Tbilisi’s Forests 34. Inventory for small scale urban parks & Biodiversity Assessment 35. Cleaning up Sewerage and Floodwater Networks to prevent Mtkvari River pollution 36. Lisi & Turtle Lake Rehabilitation For Recreational Area 37. Improving Air Quality Monitoring & Management 38. Establishing an Air Quality information portal to inform decision-making

39. Feasibility Study for Green Energy Generation from Landfill 40. Bio-waste Recycling 41. Waste Management Strategy 42. Energy Efficient Municipal Buildings and Street Lighting

28 Resilient City Strategy 29 3X MISSIONS FOR RESILIENCE HOW TO READ A RESILIENCE ACTION

Number Title

Engaging the community in redesigning kindergartens Together, the three missions build resilience in Tbilisi. Each mission is a call for every for the future person in Tbilisi to collaborate and contribute to the resilience of our city, at every scale. Owner ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Connected Tbilisi Kindergarten Management Agency, Tbilisi City Hall ACTIONS Actions IMPLEMENTING PARTNER Partner 100 Resilient Cities Programme, UNICEF, local architects and architecture students, school stakeholders (children, staff, parents)

We want to redesign and re-imagine Tbilisi’s city’s kindergarten facilities and the wider kindergarten system to better reflect the RESILIENCE OUTCOMES ambitions of the city and it’s residents. • Inspires and engages children and How does We will work with children and community residents with innovative and high groups to come up with ideas to improve the quality learning environments this action 1 2 Action provision of kindergarten education. This • Reinforces social cohesion by co- make Description will focus on re-imagining creative learning designing the kindergarten facilities Tbilisi environments, which could also help tackle together with each local community wider environmental and social challenges. (including the pupils) more A city that is thriving, We will work within the kindergarten • Introduces opportunities to adapt resilient? A city that is rehabilitation programme to test these ideas facilities to a changing climate. protected and safe connected and in the reconstruction of some of the most accessible vulnerable schools in the city. NEXT STEPS Kindergarten Management Agency, the Resilience Office and 100 Resilient Cities to coordinate Next Steps a ‘Resilient kindergartens for the Future’ Co-Lab.

Green City TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Action Plan Medium Term Aspirational

5 actions are already UN Sustainable City Plan Alignment Timeframe Status underway Development Goals 24 actions are building 3 Action Owner City Plan Alignment on existing initiatives, Organisation or department responsible Many of actions complement aspects with a resilience for carrying out the action. of Tbilisi’s existing City Plans. We have highlighted these connections, A city that mitigates approach Implementation Partners to indicate where there may be and adapts to Organisations or departments with a key opportunities to collaborate, pool 14 actions are new, role in delivering the action. resources, or identify new approaches climate change addressing gaps to delivering these actions with a Connected Actions resilience approach. It is important to recognise interactions between actions - some create the UN Sustainable Development Goals foundations for others to be successful (SDGS) some need to implemented in a Many of our actions contribute to the coordinated way to ensure they deliver Many of the actions within each mission overlap, bringing xo-multiple benefits that UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, see maximum benefits, or avoid duplication support Tbilisi in tackling the physical, social and economic challenges that are a page 107 to find out more. of stakeholders’ efforts. growing part of the 21st century. Timeframe Resilience Outcome For implementing the action. Highlights how this action will make • Short Term: 2019-2020; Tbilisi stronger and better able to • Medium Term: 2020-2023; withstand shocks and stresses. • Long term: 2023-2030.

Status Next Steps Identifies whether the action is already Immediate next steps to be taken by underway in Tbilisi, in development the action owners and implementing (with involvement from the Resilience partners to unlock action and success. Office), or Aspirational (requiring further research and planning).

30 Resilient City Strategy 31 A CITY THAT IS PROTECTED 1 AND SAFE

Our buildings are safe and We have safe and ready to respond inspiring learning Goal 1: to any shock Goal 2: environments for Build resilient and inspiring our children Provide safe housing kindergartens in safe locations for all Actions residents 1. Accelerating the structural assessment and rehabilitation programme for Actions Tbilisi’s kindergartens 6. Microzonation Study for Seismic Risk 2. Ensuring kindergarten spaces for all eligible children 7. Safe Housing Rehabilitation and Development Fund 3. Integrating energy efficient, and green space solutions into Tbilisi’s kindergartens

4. Engaging the community in redesigning kindergartens for the future

5. Working with Tbilisi’s Architecture Biennale for resilient kindergartens Goal 4: Equip decision makers We are prepared in the case of an with information to emergency reduce risks from Goal 3: natural hazards Coordinate an Emergency Response Plan for Tbilisi Actions 12. Landslide and Ground that empowers residents to Instability Risk Assessment

be prepared 13. Multi Hazard Risk Assessment We make informed Early Warning System Actions decisions when 8. Establish an Emergency building new Response Committee developments

9. Develop an Initial Disaster Response and Recovery Plan for Tbilisi

10. Community Emergency Preparedness and Risk Awareness Training Programme

11. Emergency Response Preparedness Programme in Kindergartens

32 Resilient City Strategy 33 GOAL 1. BUILD RESILIENT AND INSPIRING KINDERGARTENS

Accelerating the structural assessment and rehabilitation programme for Tbilisi’s kindergartens

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED We want to ensure all of Tbilisi’s Tbilisi Kindergarten Management Agency, Tbilisi City Hall ACTIONS kindergartens set a solid, positive IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS foundation for our community’s IFI Partners, Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Programme welfare and resilience.

We will : We aim to deliver a comprehensive act now, with the support of implementing rehabilitation and improvement programme partners, to ensure all kindergartens are >> create facilities that both educate for Tbilisi’s kindergarten facilities. Recent compliant with the update structural and inspire children, drawing assessments of the kindergarten buildings requirements (including those that have been upon the designs of both experts have indicated that some are in urgent need of recently built). and the children themselves. structural remediation. Rebuilding for the future enhance >> take opportunities to Accelerating Structural Assessments As a second stage, we will partner to secure new and retrofitted kindergartens As a first stage, we will partner with technical funding and expertise to rehabilitate and with additional benefits - for experts to accelerate this assessment and rebuild kindergartens for the future. We example with passive design prioritise the relocation of any children at want to improve Tbilisi’s kindergartens so concepts to increase natural risk. Approximately 128 kindergarten facilities that they reflect the city’s ambitions in terms daylight, nature-inspired green require structural assessments. We will need of resilience and sustainability, and ensure space solutions and improved support from external partners to directly children have access to high quality and safe cross ventilation. fund some of these structural improvements, educational environments. and support with technical feasibility studies. >> design facilities that minimise the Based on the City’s current resource and likelihood of student absence or expertise availability it would take the city RESILIENCE OUTCOMES disenrollment, which have long almost five years to complete a prioritised term consequences for education structural assessment of the remaining • Ensures children can learn in and employment. kindergarten buildings. We want to act now safe, protected and high quality to ensure the necessary assessment and educational environments. rehabilitation programme takes place quicker • Reduces risk by identifying areas in than that. need of structural improvements or Ensuring high standards of Structural Safety reinforcement. This resilience goal also supports the Requirements are met • Introduces opportunities to partner EU Georgia Association Agenda target of: Georgia’s structural safety requirements are with different stakeholders in real currently under revision, with new standards estate and construction sectors. ‘Ensuring the right to education for all children due to be implemented by 2024. We will and young individuals, including those with special educational needs and taking further steps to NEXT STEPS promote inclusive primary and Tbilisi Kindergarten Management Agency to secure: secondary education’. • support for identifying a suitably qualified organisation who can undertake the structural assessment work, and review of revised 2024 structural safety standards; • financial assistance for the construction of new kindergartens and rehabilitation of existing buildings. • In an ideal case scenario, further capacity building assistance for the City would also be secured in order for it to be able to continue to independently deliver a long-term school investment strategy and maintain, operate safe, functional schools

TIMEFRAME Structural Assessments and Safety STATUS SDGS Requirements - Short Term Short - Medium Term Pre-existing Rebuilding and rehabilitating for the future – Medium Term

34 Resilient City Strategy 35 Engaging the community in redesigning kindergartens Ensuring kindergarten spaces for all eligible children for the future

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi Kindergarten Management Agency, Tbilisi City Hall ACTIONS Tbilisi Kindergarten Management Agency, Tbilisi City Hall ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS National Ministries for Economy and Education, education-focused NGOs 100 Resilient Cities Programme, UNICEF, local architects and architecture students, school stakeholders (children, staff, parents)

There is currently a shortage of kindergarten We will also conduct research, in partnership facilities in Tbilisi. We have 180 kindergartens with implementation parters, to gain a We want to redesign and re-imagine these ideas in the form of design competitions across the city, which serve up to 61,000 better understanding of Tbilisi’s longer term Tbilisi’s kindergarten facilities and the wider or a open procurement programme to appoint children during the school year and 13,010 kindergarten demand, (in terms of anticipated kindergarten system to better reflect the local developers, architects and contractors. children during the summer period. This demographic change for the coming decades) aspirations of the city and it’s residents. number is not sufficient to meet existing in order to inform the future planning for the RESILIENCE OUTCOMES demand, resulting in some children being city’s kindergartens. We will work with children and community unable to access education (creating a groups to develop ideas to improve the • Inspires and engages children and constraint for families) and others being provision of kindergarten education. This residents with innovative and high educated in unacceptably large group sizes. RESILIENCE OUTCOMES will focus on re-imagining creative learning quality learning environments. In some cases, class sizes are 50% above the environments, which could also help tackle recommended number. • Improves access to kindergarten • Reinforces social cohesion by co- wider environmental and social challenges. We education, making the system designing the kindergarten facilities We will work with partners to explore will work within the kindergarten rehabilitation more equitable. together with each local community opportunities to increase capacity across programme to test these ideas in the (including the pupils). • Reduces overcrowding and disruption Tbilisi’s kindergarten system, and identify reconstruction of some of the most vulnerable in kindergarten classes. • Introduces opportunities to adapt locations through a potentially IFI funded kindergartens in the city. External partner facilities to a changing climate. feasibility study for additional kindergartens • Supports a long-term approach to support would be required for piloting some of to be built. We will strive to bring the the management and planning of NEXT STEPS 3000 children who do not currently have a kindergarten facilities. kindergarten place, into the education system. Kindergarten Management Agency, the Resilience Office and 100 Resilient Cities to coordinate a ‘Resilient kindergartens for the Future’ Co-Lab. NEXT STEPS Kindergarten Management Agency to secure assistance from Ministry of Education and Ministry TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS of Economy to identify opportunities to introduce additional kindergarten classrooms. Short Term Aspirational

TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Short Term In Development LEARNING FROM CALI’S SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE CO-LAB WITH 100RC

Schools are more vulnerable to agencies and international subject- natural hazards than any other type matter experts. The objective of building. Worldwide, not only of the CoLab was to identify is most educational infrastructure recommendations and develop underfunded and overextended, but solutions for Cali that both reduce post-disaster reconstruction often school vulnerability to natural fails to meet standards for resilience. hazards and create opportunities for economic, social and environmental The city of Cali (Colombia) is working benefits which further support to change that. The ‘My Community, and incentivize investment in risk My School’ program focuses on reduction. strengthening the quality and relevance of public education in Cali’s As a result of the CoLab, the city schools by integrating improvements embarked on a partnership with the to facilities and curriculum not World Bank’s Global Program for only for its students, but also for Safer Schools to implement their teachers, directors and surrounding Roadmap for Safer Schools. The city communities. is now in the process of developing a long-term investment strategy to Building on this program, a 100 reduce the vulnerability of its school Resilient Cities’ CoLab on School portfolio to natural hazards, and For further information: Infrastructure Resilience brought improve educational outcomes and https://www.100resilientcities.org/100rc- together partners from municipal community resilience. colab-cali-colombia-explores-cities-can- build-resilient-school-infrastructure/

36 Goal 1 - Build resilient and inspiring kindergartens Resilient City Strategy 37 Integrate energy efficient, and green space solutions Working with Tbilisi’s Architectural Biennale into Tbilisi’s kindergartens for resilience

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi Kindergarten Management Agency, Municipal Environmental ACTIONS Tbilisi Architecture Biennale (TAB) Founders, Tbilisi Kindergarten ACTIONS Protection Department Management Agency IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Tbilisi Kindergarten Management Agency, IFI Partners Tbilisi Architecture Biennale (TAB) , Tbilisi Kindergarten Management Agency As a part of the rehabilitation and rebuilding • Installing green playground spaces (rather of Tbilisi’s kindergartens, we will identify than asphalt or concrete) and adapting outdoor spaces with plants for share and We aim to build upon the success of the Tbilisi opportunities to integrate energy efficient education purposes. Architecture Biennale (TAB) – established and nature-based green space improvements in 2017 – and collaborate with local urban into kindergarten facilities. Many buildings RESILIENCE OUTCOMES These improvement measures should build designers and architects to integrate urban are old, and built to the construction codes upon the recommendations given in the World resilience into the TAB programme of biannual • Builds capacity within city planning and regulations in operation during the Bank’s Energy Efficiency Assessment (2018). events. Soviet period. Buildings therefore experience and design sectors through convening various private and significant thermal losses. Through the biennale event, we will collaborate RESILIENCE OUTCOMES public stakeholders around the Energy efficiency and green spaces measures to advance standards, building codes and to issues of urban resilience in the built could include: • Reduces energy consumption and incorporate resilience thinking into design operating costs. for the built environment by drawing upon environment. • Roof and wall insulation solutions • Reduces C0 emissions. the wealth of multi-disciplinary expertise the • Provides a clear platform to • Ventilation systems with thermal recovery 2 • Enhances learning opportunities Biennale attracts. This event is an excellent communicate and deliberate the around sustainability and the opportunity to build relationships and leverage challenges and desires from public environment. the skills and expertise of local academia, and civic institutions – i.e. schools designers and built environmental specialists. NEXT STEPS or community centers – to private We will start by identifying selected pilot sites for installing energy efficiency technology, As a first stage, we will engage participants sector bodies. and removing asphalt (during 2019). Coordination with the wider structural assessment and in the Biennale in re-imagining resilient rehabilitation programme will be key to ensure these improvements can be installed in an kindergartens and playgrounds. efficient and cost-effective manner. We will then assess results and expand the programme to further kindergartens. NEXT STEPS Tbilisi Architectural Biennale organisers, Resilience Office and Kindergarten Management Green City TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Agency stakeholders to develop a working group and agree key opportunities for collaboration. Action Plan Medium Term Aspirational

TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS LEARNING FROM PARIS’S OASIS SCHOOLYARD OASIS PROGRAMME Medium Term Aspirational

The 2017 heatwaves in Paris highlighted that the of eventually opening these city’s impermeable asphalt-covered schoolyards spaces to the wider public were a contributing factor to increasing outside of school hours for temperatures in the city. With more than 750 recreational and sport activities; schoolyards in the city, covering up to almost 80 hectares, and yet only 5.8 m2 of green space • Protect the health of the most per inhabitant, the city looked to transform its vulnerable by adapting the schoolyards into urban cooling islands. infrastructure children use as well as through the opening of As part of the Paris Resilience Strategy, the these spaces to elderly people “Oasis” program aims to: during heatwave. • Adapt the schoolyards by replacing asphalt The program started with 3 pilot with porous material, enhancing revegetation, schools in 2018, and another 30 modernizing water management (fountains, schoolyards in 2019. The long-term water sprayers), as well as creating natural and aim is to adapt the entire city’s schoolyards in the artificial shaded structures; years to come. With the average Parisian living within 200m of a schoolyard, the project has the • Reinforce social cohesion by co-designing potential to impact every resident in the city when the schoolyards together with each local fully implemented. community (including the pupils) with the goal

38 Goal 1 - Build resilient and inspiring kindergartens Resilient City Strategy 39 GOAL 2. PROVIDE SAFE HOUSES IN SAFE LOCATIONS FOR ALL

Microzonation Study for Seismic Risk Its estimated that 330 residential blocks still show signs of damage following the CONNECTED 2002 earthquake, its possible ACTION OWNER Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Department for Urban Development, and ACTIONS that 1 in 3 are in force Emergency Response Committee majeure condition. IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS We want to ensure that future Ilia State University’s Institute of Earth Sciences and National Seismic Monitoring Centre, IFI Partner. developments and building rehabilitation programmes provide safe and good quality We will partner with earthquake risk experts We will work with international experts living conditions for to conduct a microzonation study specifically to ensure the study adopts a high quality Tbilisi’s residents. for Tbilisi. The city is located in a region of methodological approach. llia State potentially high seismic activity. The only University’s Institute of Earth Sciences and We will: existing seismic map dates from the Soviet era, National Seismic Monitoring Centre have also >> work with multiple and requires updating with modern methods identified a team of young scientists to deliver stakeholders to ensure new and technology. elements of the field work and data analysis, developments meet safe with the intention of ensuring this project also We will explore the option of working closely standards, in safe locations delivers capacity building outcomes. with academic and IFI partners to develop an >> ensure safe building updated and reliable seismic microzonation standards are applicable in map will inform land use zoning, building RESILIENCE OUTCOMES both retrofit and renovation codes and infrastructure development. This • Provides greater understanding of works, as well as new is particularly important as many private vulnerable locations to inform the developments. businesses are investing in infrastructure development in Tbilisi, often at sites where prioritisation of rehabilitation and >> develop a greater local site specific hazard studies have not renovation works, and locations for understanding of been performed to the modern standards to new developments. geomorphological risk guarantee the safety of new buildings. The • Builds upon Tbilisi’s disaster risk in Tbilisi, and integrate microzonation map will support the city in reduction program, through a this within city planning developing regulation and building codes to coordinated approach to documenting regulations and ensure earthquake-safe construction for new earthquake risk zones. investment strategies. buildings • Builds local capacity and expertise in seismic risk and management.

This resilience goal supports NEXT STEPS actions currently being taken Tbilisi City Hall and Resilience Office to secure technical assistance from IFIs to conduct to address the lack of building microzonation study in collaboration with Ilia State University and National Seismic Monitoring codes & regulations under Centre. Early involvement from the Municipal Department for Urban Development and Emergency Response committee will facilitate the integration of study findings into urban the Georgia-EU Association planning and construction regulations. Agreement.

TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Medium Term Aspirational

40 Goal 2 - Provide safe houses in safe locations for all Resilient City Strategy 41 GOAL 3. COORDINATE AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN TO Develop a Safe Housing Rehabilitation and EMPOWER RESIDENTS TO BE PREPARED Development Fund

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tens of thousands of volunteers self-mobilised Municipal Urban Development Department, Tbilisi City Hall ACTIONS quickly to help with cleaning and recovery efforts IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS following the 2015 floods. Ministry of Regional Development, Municipal Department of Health and Social services, Municipal Department of Economic development, IFI Partner We want to build on this impressive capacity to self-organise and respond by formalising Tbilisi’s Emergency Response plans. Tbilisi City Hall aims to develop institutional, improvement programmes (as there are several legislative and financial mechanisms to other areas within city infrastructure believed We will develop activities to support various levels establish a housing fund for the rehabilitation to be facing similar structural challenges). of civil society, government and private sector to and development of Tbilisi’s housing stock. prepare in the case of any emergency. There is a need to clearly define a housing development and rehabilitation strategy, with RESILIENCE OUTCOMES supporting action plans and tools to finance the redevelopment. • Develops a coordinated and strategic approach to rebuilding the city’s This includes a technical feasibility study residential infrastructure. identifying and assessing potential funding This goal supports national efforts implementing • Improves living conditions and quality models and partnerships to implement housing the Sendai Framework on DRR for: sector renewal programmes. Throughout • Builds local expertise and capacity this work, we aim to increase expertise in infrastructure and improvement Priority 4: ‘Enhancing disaster preparedness for and capacity within the city administration planning. effective response and to build back better in in undertaking risk-based infrastructure recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction’ NEXT STEPS Municipal Department of Urban Development to work with IFIs to secure technical and financial assistance to: • Conduct an inventory of the city’s existing housing stock • Develop a robust methodology for implementing a Housing Rehabilitation and Development Programme • Identify partnerships and a funding model for housing sector renewal programme

City TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Masterplan Medium Term In Development

42 Goal 2 - Provide safe houses in safe locations for all Resilient City Strategy 43 Establish an Emergency Response Committee Develop an Initial Disaster Response and Recovery for Tbilisi Plan for Tbilisi

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTIONS Tbilisi City Hall Administration and Resilience Office ACTIONS Emergency Response Committee and District Authorities of Tbilisi City Hall, Emergency Management Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Georgia Tbilisi City Hall Emergency Services and Emergency Management Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Tbilisi City Hall, District Authorities, community organisations and IFI Emergency Response experts Tbilisi City Hall will establish an Emergency guidance to mitigating and managing disaster Response Committee for Tbilisi. This risks related to public buildings, as well as We will collaborate across multiple local Ourand priorityfunds, and is to ensuring develop people’s these plans participation for committee will be responsible for coordinating advising the private sector in best practice organisations to develop aand Disaster disseminate Tbilisi,in potential at a city recovery level. Inefforts. due course, we aim the activities of municipal units during approaches to protecting assets and mitigating Responsea Disaster Plan Response for Tbilisi, and in Recovery order to Planimprove to develop local versions, tailored to each the event of a natural disaster or crisis. financial, structural, and supply chain risks. coordinationfor Tbilisi, in orderand planning to improve in responding coordination to district.Our priority No district is to develop is the same. these plansBy looking for The committee will work closely with the emergenciesand planning (rangingin responding from earthquaketo emergencies and atTbilisi, community at a city assets, level. Inrisks due and course, vulnerabilities we aim Emergency Management Department of RESILIENCE OUTCOMES floods,(ranging to from large-scale earthquake evacuations). and floods, to large- atto adevelop neighbourhood-scale, local versions, tailored we can todevelop the the Ministry of Internal Affairs to fulfill the scale evacuations, epidemics or civil unrest). plansunique that characteristics address the andindividual needs needsof each to of each obligations of the Emergency Management • By planning for comprehensive The core elements in formulating this plans is district.our district. By looking at community assets, Plan for Tbilisi. disaster recovery in advance of a providingThe plan will clarity address on the - disaster roles, responsibilities mitigation risks and vulnerabilities at a neighbourhood- major shock, the city can accelerate and frameworkspreparedness, for initial rapid disaster decision-making. response, We scale, we can develop plans that address the The Committee will be responsible for the recovery process, make more willpost also disaster work recoveryto develop and the the skills approach needed to to individual needs to each district. preparing and updating the Disaster Response respondreconstruction to local based threats on effectively, ‘build back better’drawing and Recovery plans (see Action 9) for the efficient use of scarce resources, and uponprinciples. the lessons The plan learnt will fromprovide the clarity 2002 on the city as well as other cross sectoral initiatives reduce the overall economic impact of Earthquakeroles, responsibilities and 2015 andFloods. frameworks for rapid RESILIENCE OUTCOMES to strengthen disaster preparedness. For future shocks. decision-making. We will also work to develop • Builds capacity across multiple example, the committee will help provide clear We will also prepare plans for recovery to the skills needed to respond to local threats sectors to respond to emergencies in enable quick and efficient action when it is NEXT STEPS effectively, drawing upon the lessons learnt an effective and coordinated manner. neededfrom the most. 2002 This Earthquake involves andassessing 2015 Floods. recovery Tbilisi City Hall and Resilience Office to convene a stakeholder working group develop greater needs in Tbilisi, developing institutional • Increases public awareness and understanding of city and national level obligations for the future committee. arrangementsWe will prepare and plans funds, for recoveryand ensuring to enable enhances communication channels people’squick and participation efficient action in potential when it recovery is needed with residents around mitigating TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS efforts.most. This involves assessing recovery needs in risk and safety when responding to Short Term In Development Tbilisi, developing institutional arrangements emergencies.

NEXT STEPS EARTHQUAKE DESIGN SPRINT Emergency Response Committee to seek guidance from Disaster Response and Recovery In February 2018, a broad range • Mobility & Transport assets and Experts for developing a comprehensive city-wide plan. of stakeholders from Tbilisi City networks Hall, International Development Banks, private organisations, A series of Design Sprint exercises TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS enabled participants to gain a academia, and emergency services Short Term In Development explored the threat of earthquakes greater understanding of some in the city. The workshop asked of the cities’ critical assets or vulnerabilities, and subsequently participants to consider ‘how can identify opportunities for action Tbilisi’s assets become more across government, business resilient to withstand the impact and public sectors. Our initial of a potential earthquake in the thinking around risks and solutions city? Participants worked in small groups to focus on one of the identified are available within the following: Preliminary Resilience Assessment. These require further development • Critical infrastructure assets and testing with key decision- making authorities in Tbilisi. • Social infrastructure assets

44 Goal 3 - Coordinate an emergency response plan to empower residents to be prepared Resilient City Strategy 45 Community Emergency Preparedness and Risk Emergency Response & Preparedness Programme Awareness Training programme in kindergartens

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Emergency Management Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of ACTIONS Tbilisi Kindergarten Management Agency, Tbilisi City Hall ACTIONS Georgia, Emergency Response Committee and District Authorities IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Environmental Information & Education Centre (EIEC), NGOs, kindergartens Environmental Information & Education Centre (EIEC), NGOs, local schools teachers, youth and community organisations and community organisations

Teaching children from a young age about In parallel, we will also coordinate with the A fundamental element of disaster risk events (i.e. floods or heavy storms). Crucially how to protect themselves in the case of an Ministry of Education to roll out equivalent reduction within cities is building community these systems are relatively low cost and thus emergency is fundamental in developing emergency response and preparedness risk awareness and capacity to respond, accessible for the poorest communities, who community capacity to prepare for and training in all schools and public education through training programs. We will partner coincidentally are often the worst affected. respond to a crisis. institutions in Tbilisi. with experts and community groups to deliver a programme of risk awareness, community We will develop a programme of emergency mitigation measures, preparedness and response preparedness training tailored RESILIENCE OUTCOMES RESILIENCE OUTCOMES emergency response guidelines for Tbilisi’s for young children, to be delivered in residents. • Provides formal and informal kindergartens across Tbilisi. This will involve • Prepares children to respond to volunteer organisations with training teachers to lead safe evacuations, unforeseen events in a safe and This will entail setting up appropriate knowledge and resources to respond establishing appropriate communication calm manner. structures to engage residents, communicate in the case of emergencies. and warning apparatus, accessible fire exits • Raises awareness around emergency information, signal warnings, and provide a and safe assembly points. We will ensure • Provides safe space to practice for space for active engagement and knowledge all training is age-appropriate, designed to response and risk reduction among real life emergencies and ensures sharing. Successful examples have involved minimise stress and equips children with the our youngest and sometimes most improvements in the effectiveness of mobile/app-based platforms that send early knowledge to respond calmly and effectively in vulnerable residents. warning messaging around specific disaster response and recovery efforts. any emergency situation.

NEXT STEPS NEXT STEPS Kindergarten Management Agency to collaborate with agencies delivering Action 10 to Tbilisi City Hall and Resilience Office to secure technical assistance from IFIs to develop and secure technical assistance from IFIs to develop and implement an emergency response and implement a comprehensive community disaster awareness and preparedness programme. preparedness programme suitable for kindergartens

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46 Goal 3 - Coordinate an emergency response plan to empower residents to be prepared Resilient City Strategy 47 GOAL 4. EQUIP DECISION MAKERS TO REDUCE RISKS FROM NATURAL HAZARDS

Landslide and Ground Instability Risk Assessment

We want to improve the city’s identification and assessment of ACTION OWNER CONNECTED risks from natural hazards. Tbilisi City Hall Municipal Environmental Protection Department, ACTIONS National Environmental Agency (NEA) of the Ministry of We want to ensure decision makers Environmental Protection and Agriculture are informed in order to be able to IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS mitigate risks and develop effective National Environment Agency monitoring systems.

Following the 2002 Earthquake, and flash flooding events in 2012 and 2015, many areas have become geologically unstable, and prone to land or mudslides. RESILIENCE OUTCOMES In 2016, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resource Protection, in collaboration • Provides evidence for informed risk with NEA started to conduct a geological management decisions and policy hazard assessment of Tbilisi. making. • Reduces risk and vulnerability This resilience goal also supports This included developing: associated flooding, flash flooding, the EU Georgia Association • Thematic maps (1:25,000 scale) showing landslides and extreme temperatures. Agenda and Sendai Framework landslide, mudflow and rockfall hazard risk on DRR targets for: across Tbilisi’s municipal territory.

• Improving the knowledge base • A geological hazards GIS database on disaster risks by enhancing NEXT STEPS cooperation on data accessibility Once this Risk Assessment is published, Tbilisi City Hall’s Infrastructure Development, and comparability; Environmental Protection, Transport and Urban Development departments will integrate the • Progress with the development study’s findings into decision making processes and regulations for construction permits and of a country-wide disaster risk public service planning. assessment and mapping City TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Masterplan Short Term Pre-existing

48 Goal 4 - Equip decision makers to reduce risks from natural hazards Resilient City Strategy 49 A CITY THAT IS PROTECTED AND SAFE IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP

The actions to make Tbilisi protected and safe kindergarten, housing construction and renovation, require collaboration across sectors ranging from and wider municipal building programmes to ensure Multi Hazard Risk Assessment & Early Warning System structural safety, building regulations, and disaster cost savings, and avoid duplication of efforts from risk management and prevention, to education and implementation partners. community engagement. ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Capacity building opportunities Tbilisi City Hall ACTIONS Many actions within this mission create the There are opportunities for expertise and lessons foundations for actions featured in other pillars. A learnt to be shared across Actions involving IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS microzonation study, for example, is fundamental for structural assessments and renewal programmes. Italy-Georgia Bilateral funded projected, implemented by the National Environment Agency, (NEA) of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and ensuing many other actions are taking place in safe Collaboration across the Kindergarten and Housing Agriculture locations. Rehabilitation (Actions 1 and 7), and Historic District management (Action 22) programmes. Integrating Identifying Safe Locations ctions could increase expertise and capacity within We will work with experts in order to develop These studies should inform the installation The results of the Microzonation Study, Multi-Hazard the city administration in undertaking risk-based an integrated Multi Hazard Risk Assessment of early warning and monitoring systems for Risk Assessment and Landslide Risk Assessment infrastructure improvement programmes. and Early Warning System for Tbilisi. This will flooding, flash flooding, landslide, mudslide will be integrated into the planning the kindergarten incorporate monitoring data based on the and river pollution events. rehabilitation (Action 1), Housing Rehabilitation and The architectural biennale also presents an excellent following studies: Development (Action 7), and Brownfield Industry opportunity to build sustained engagement to There will also be the opportunity to Development Strategy (Action 14), for example. leverage the skills, expertise and ingrained local • Hydro-meteorological and geological coordinate with the nation-wide Multi-Hazard knowledge of local academia. This event holds great Cost Saving Opportunities assessment to identify areas at risk of Early Warning System project conducted by potential to build resilience in many sectors, from It will be important to ensure the energy efficient flooding, flash-flooding and mudflows. This UNDP and the Swiss Agency for Development kindergarten design, to heritage preservation and and green space retrofits are coordinated with should be supported with an assessment of and Cooperation (2018-2025), in order to developing diverse visitor activities in Tbilisi. implement the relevant actions and findings for the processes contributing to these hazards. Tbilisi. 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2030 • A feasibility study identifying locations for Accelerating the structural assessment and installing observation equipment to create rehabilitation programme for Tbilisi’s kindergartens an observation network of meteorological RESILIENCE OUTCOMES Ensuring kindergarten spaces and hydrological parameters in the Mtkvari for all eligible children River basin (for fluvial flood monitoring) and • Provides evidence for informed risk across the city (for surface water and pluvial management decisions and policy Engaging the community in redesigning future kindergartens flood monitoring). making. • Builds institutional capacity in multi- Integrating energy efficient and green • Elaboration of high-resolution models for space solutions into kindergartens weather and hydrological forecasting. hazard risk reduction and adaptation Energy Efficient Municipal Buildings & Street Lighting • A morphological study of the Mtkvari River • Increases the capacity of Tbilisi banks and riverbed to identify factors to reduce damage and recover Working with Tbilisi’s Architecture Biennale for resilience contributing to excessive sedimentation,and effectively following a major natural Microzonation Study for Seismic Risk pollution. This should be supported with hazard event. recommendations to prevent and manage • Supports continuity of critical Safe Housing Rehabilitation and Development Fund pollution and flood risks. services, quicker recovery and Brownfield and Industrial • A multi (natural) hazard risk zoning map and provides greater confidence to Development Strategy potential investors. GIS database to inform city zoning plans and Resilient Transit Orientated Developments building regulations. Emergency NEXT STEPS Response Committee Tbilisi City Hall and NEA to secure technical and financial assistance from IFIs to conduct risk Initial Disaster assessment and early warning system feasibility studies. Response & Recovery Plan Community Emergency Green City TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Action Plan preparedness training Medium Term In Development programme Emergency Response Preparedness in kindergartens Landslide Risk Assessment Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment & Early Warning System 50 Goal 4 - Equip decision makers to reduce risks from natural hazards Resilient City Strategy 51 A CITY THAT IS 2 THRIVING, CONNECTED AND ACCESSIBLE Visitors enjoy spending time in our vibrant and friendly city

Goal 5: Goal 6: Connect all residents Grow a resilient tourism with economic economy, that celebrates opportunities Tbilisi’s cultural assets, Economic opportunities and Actions and enhances quality of decent jobs are 14. Brownfield and Industrial life for residents available for all Development Strategy Actions 15. Resilient Transit Orientated 20. Tourism Strategy and Action Development Plan for Tbilisi

16. Supporting Our New and 21. Promoting Diverse and Inclusive Our city is A diverse variety Growing Economic Sectors Visitor Activities connected and of small business easy to access 17. Improve Understanding Of 22. Building Capacity for are thriving Skills Gaps Workforce Trends Safeguarding, Preserving and 18. Tbilisi Business Accelerator Managing Tbilisi’s Historic District 19. Hospitality Skills Training Programme 23. A People-Centered Night-Time Economy

Goal 7: 26. Develop Tbilisi’s ‘Street Manual’ Develop active and inclusive for cycling+walking+transport transport systems 27. Upgrading buses for a resilient bus service Actions Walking, cycling and public transport are 28. Intelligent Transport 24. Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan prioritised over cars Management systems 25. Mtkvari River Transport Tourism Study

52 Resilient City Strategy 53 GOAL 5. CONNECT ALL RESIDENTS WITH ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Brownfield and Industrial Development Strategy

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Department of Urban Development, Municipal ACTIONS Department of Economic Development IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Private Owners of Brownfield Sites, IFI partners

Tbilisi has extensive areas of unused Actions 15 and 23) in order to successfully brownfield land across the city - this develop these sites as linked centres of represents a huge development potential economic development or community for the city. These were often former factory amenities. Some sites will be key in developing sites, which were largely privatised and left Tbilisi’s new metro and transport links. Others unused after the fall of the Communist regime. have potential to boost investment in tourism Tbilisi City Hall will develop a rehabilitation and night-time economy infrastructure - in and investment strategy for these sites. This some cases, the industrial soviet heritage may will include developing models for public- give some sites their own charm. private partnerships and a detailed action plan. This programme would require a number Tbilisi’s people are its greatest This resilience goal contributes to of technical and feasibility studies that could RESILIENCE OUTCOMES asset. We want to ensure two of the targets set in the EU potentially be funded by external partners. residents have access to economic Georgia Association Agenda: • Recovery and regeneration of central These studies would then form the basis of opportunity and a greater quality sites reduces urban sprawl and revives • Develop a strategic approach to special planning and regulatory frameworks of life. activity in the city centre. employment, vocational education to support the development of these sites. • Enables synergies and collaboration We will: and training; aiming at more and In parallel, new models for public private development partnerships to facilitate between public and private better jobs with decent working regeneration of these sites will be examined stakeholders. • Develop economic sectors conditions, better matching of and enabled. • Attracts private investment for city that ensure a diverse range of skills and jobs in the labour market economic opportunities that will projects. and promoting active labour The brownfield and industrial development also provide decent jobs for all of market measures and efficient strategy will need to be linked with a • Supports basic conditions to increase Tbilisi’s population; employment services, with a sustainable multi-modal transport vision (see employment and services in Tbilisi. • Ensure all residents can access particular focus on youth; economic opportunities across the • Improve the regulatory framework, NEXT STEPS city via efficient and comfortable operational environment and Municipal Department of Urban Development to secure technical expertise to conduct a detailed means of transport; support to SMEs. survey of brownfield sites, identify priority sites for development, and prepare a Brownfield Land • Tackle the skills gaps that currently Strategy and related policies for Tbilisi. prevent people in Tbilisi from accessing secure, high value City TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Masterplan employment; Medium Term In Development • Reduce our high unemployment rate, especially amongst the younger population, by facilitating the transition between school and employment.

54 Goal 5 - Connect all residents with economic opportunities Resilient City Strategy 55 Resilient Transit-Orientated Development for Tbilisi’s Supporting our new and growing economic sectors New Metro Stations

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Transport Department, Municipal Department of ACTIONS Tbilisi City Hall Municipal Economic Development Department ACTIONS Urban Development IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Ministry of Economy, Municipal Economic Development Department Tbilisi Transport Company (TTC), in partnership with planning and and IFI partners construction sector. IFI partners may provide technical assistance and studies.

We want to foster economic development • Contributing to infrastructure provision Between 2021-2022, seven new metro stations • Highly accessible neighbourhoods and economic diversity in Tbilisi. We recently for businesses will be built, linking Lilo and the Airport to worked with the consultancy Deloitte to • Creating beneficial incentives and Tbilisi’s city centre. • Effective use of pedestrianised public identify the sectors with potential for further regulatory environments for priority sector space with street furniture and public development and investment Tbilisi. These development We will work with both public and private art installations. sectors included: healthcare, hospitality, retail sector stakeholders to ensure the new metro and entertainment. station developments maximise the amount of • Easy connections to employment areas residential, business and recreational areas in We will develop a City Incentive Scheme • Cost recovery for construction easy reach of these public transport hubs. to support the growth of ‘up and coming’ RESILIENCE OUTCOMES economic sectors with high development • Land value capture mechanisms This will involve ensuring that the development potential. We will investigate opportunities • Supports job creation in high earning of areas around the new metro stations to support knowledge-based business, and knowledge-based sectors. maximises opportunities for: others adding value to Tbilisi’s economy, via • Attains economic sustainability by RESILIENCE OUTCOMES the following measures: encouraging diversity across Tbilisi’s • Integrated land use and transport planning • Promote regeneration, economic • Providing co-working spaces for economic sectors. • Efficient land use, with a balanced density development and investment in new businesses of buildings neighbourhoods. NEXT STEPS • Mixed-use developments for • Supports basic conditions to increase Once the priority economic sectors are established, the Economic Development Department will vibrant communities access to employment and services in identify municipal support for developing pilot projects and develop a framework for engaging Tbilisi. private sector support.

NEXT STEPS Municipal Transport and Urban Development departments to convene key stakeholders and City Masterplan TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS identify the necessary planning regulations and agencies required to support the development Local Economic Medium Term In Development Development Plan of a comprehensive TOD plan. Successful TOD strategies require integrated engineering, planning, GIS, transport modeling and business studies. IFIs and external partners could support these studies.

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56 Goal 5 - Connect all residents with economic opportunities Resilient City Strategy 57 Improve Understanding of Workforce Trends and Tbilisi Business Accelerator Programme Skill Gaps

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall Municipal Economic Development Department ACTIONS Tbilisi City Hall Municipal Economic Development Department ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Education, Educational Institutions, IFI European Union and Tbilisi City Hall (co-funded, 50%) partners (e.g. ILO), private sector, sector associations

In 2017, Tbilisi City Hall was awarded with This programme aims to support sustainably- Unemployment is a key challenge for Tbilisi. This research will be key in providing the the European Union Grant for “Creating a focused local businesses to overcome the The capital’s unemployment rate (24.7%) is insight needed to develop pilot projects, and Business Accelerator for Sustainable SME challenges often faced by SMEs and start ups. significantly higher than the national inform policy making. Development”. Once the accelerator programme is complete, average (14%). Tbilisi City Hall aims to assist programme We will conduct a comprehensive workforce This programme, co-funded by both an EU beneficiaries with raising finances via a start- study, assessing Tbilisi’s current and projected Grant, and Tbilisi City Hall, will provide a up capital fund. This fund can be setup and RESILIENCE OUTCOMES labour market needs and skill-sets, as well as range of start-up and small-to-medium sized co-operated with an IFI or external partner the barriers to employment. This research will enterprises with: • Enhances understanding of the levers with the requisite technical experience and enable Tbilisi City Hall to: capacity. to reduce unemployment in Tbilisi. • Appropriate office spaces with suitable • Engage local businesses in identifying the • Provides evidence to tailor education supporting technical infrastructure; skill-sets and workforce they need; and training programmes to business • Expert consultation support; • Improve the job searching services available needs. RESILIENCE OUTCOMES • Meeting venues; to support those entering or re-entering the • Increases the percentage of workforce; population in gainful employment, • Sales promotion and marketing support • Promotes local sustainable businesses • Collaborate with educational institutions, to increasing productivity rates, and for international and local markets and and diversifying Tbilisi’s urban validate and adjust study programmes to quality of life. assistance in identifying and localizing economy. ensure students leave with the skills ready potential target groups; • Upskills local business owners. for employment. • Mentorship and assistance in drafting • Creates jobs and enabling NEXT STEPS business plans, and in raising finances at diverse livelihoods. Municipal Economic Development department to secure technical and capacity building the early stages of starting the businesses. assistance from IFIs and key stakeholder organisations to conduct the necessary labour market & skills research. NEXT STEPS Municipal Economic Development department to establish a diverse pool of programme Local Economic TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS participants and provide support in developing business plans and business promotion Development Plan Medium Term In Development strategies.

Local Economic TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Development Plan Medium Term In Development

58 Goal 5 - Connect all residents with economic opportunities Resilient City Strategy 59 GOAL 6. GROW A RESILIENT TOURISM ECONOMY CELEBRATING TBILISI’S CULTURAL ASSETS AND ENHANCING QUALITY OF LIFE FOR RESIDENTS Hospitality Sector Training Programme

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall Municipal Economic Development Department ACTIONS The number of international visitors coming to Tbilisi has IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS significantly increased over the Municipal Economic Development Department, educational institutions and past few years, drawn by the sector associations city’s well-established art scene, low street criminality, excellent wine and relatively low prices. We will collaborate with hospitality • Mentorship associations and vocational colleges We will: to develop a Hospitality Skills Training • Apprenticeships with large-scale Programme. This will help prepare job hospitality organisations • Ensure growth in tourism seekers looking to join small to medium sized brings benefits for all businesses in the fast-growing and important residents of Tbilisi hospitality sector. RESILIENCE OUTCOMES • Preserve and enhance Tbilisi’s This programme will provide a range of unique built heritage training opportunities for both young • Promotes employment opportunities • Promote Tbilisi’s attractiveness students leaving school, and those with in HORECA and other related sectors. as a tourism destination whilst existing employment experience, including: • Increases language/business/services also enhancing quality of life • Food and Beverage Service Skills skills of local population. for residents • Promotes Tbilisi as a diverse high • Sales and Marketing Skills quality visitor destination. • Business Development skills

NEXT STEPS The actions under this resilience goal contribute to two of the Municipal Economic Development department to deliver initial pilot training modules during targets set by the Year 1, then to engage hospitality organisations in the long-term, to assist with the delivery of the EU Georgia training programme. Association Agenda: • Cooperating on the Local Economic TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS development of an inclusive Development Plan Short Term In Development cultural policy in Georgia and on the preservation and valorisation of cultural and natural heritage with a view to fostering socioeconomic development

• Promoting the implementation of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

60 Goal 5 - Connect all residents with economic opportunities Resilient City Strategy 61 Tourism Strategy and Action Plan for Tbilisi Promoting Diverse and Inclusive Visitor Activities

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall Municipal Economic Development Department ACTIONS Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Economic Development Department ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Municipal Economic Development Department, Georgian Tourism Private-Public Partnerships, Tbilisi City Hall Municipal Economic Administration, Tourism Sector Associations (including tourism, guides, Development Department hiking associations) IFI partners, NGOs

Tbilisi City Hall will advocate for increasing • Improving way-finding tools in the city the variety of activities on offer for visitors to Tbilisi City Hall will develop a Tourism Strategy • Promotion of Tbilisi’s hospitality and Tbilisi. We want to ensure there is a range of • Using innovative new technologies and and Action Plan to strengthen its role in diversity of touristic products. ways visitors can explore our city. We want collaborating with small and medium guiding investment in the city and ensuring to provide activities for everyone, from our tourism enterprises to offer new tourism Tbilisi’s tourism industry provides diverse and youngest to our oldest visitors. We will explore products. gainful employment opportunities. the following options: RESILIENCE OUTCOMES This Tourism Strategy and Action Plan will • A feasibility study for using the Mtkvari RESILIENCE OUTCOMES enable Tbilisi to benefit from: River for touristic routes and transport • Coordinates a strategic approach • Promotes Tbilisi’s cultural identity, • Strategic direction in developing new to growing tourism-led economic • Developing and upgrading visitor trails image and reputation. and diversified tourism products and development opportunities. across the city, to promote and celebrate • Promotes longer stays and deeper attractions; both the city’s tangible and intangible • Support economic growth and local engagement with Tbilisi’s culture, • Increased employment opportunities in the heritage and cultures. This includes jobs while helping to minimize the histories, and environments. tourism and services sector; unintended adverse consequences expanding visitor trails to include additional neighbourhoods surrounding • Generates additional revenues • Increased FDI in the tourism sector that can come from rapid development TOURISM the historic district, and developing food, through expansion of tourist sector. • Increased visitor spending supported by of tourism in a city. history, music, architectural and naturePICTURE higher value, more diverse visitor offer trails. enabling increased average length of stay; NEXT STEPS NEXT STEPS Municipal Economic Development department to identify locations for pilot trail projects and Municipal Economic Development Department to explore opportunities to learn from international collaborate with Environmental Protection Department in reviewing the findings of Mtkvari River tourism organisations and cities across the 100 Resilient Cities Network, and then secure technical feasibility study. and capacity building assistance from IFIs if required to develop Strategy and Action. Plan.

City Masterplan TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Local Economic Medium Term In Development Local Economic TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Development Plan Development Plan Medium Term In Development

LEARNING FROM THESSALONÍKI

Tbilisi’s Municipal Economic Development department will collaborate with the Municipality of Thessaloníki to learn from their holistic approach to developing a resilient city tourism strategy through:

• Aligning city promotion campaigns with the city’s identify as a knowledge and talent hub • Working with entrepreneurs in the creative economy sector to support tourism.

62 Goal 6 - Grow a resilient tourism economy enhancing quality of life for residents Resilient City Strategy 63 Building Capacity for Safeguarding, Preserving and Managing Tbilisi’s Historic District

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Urban Development Department ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Municipal Urban Development Department, Economic Policy Department, Municipal Inspections Department, Municipal Legal Department, Tbilisi Architecture Service, District Administrations, Tbilisi City Assembly, Tbilisi Development Fund.

Tbilisi’s Historic District is a candidate on social mix of residents and users is preserved the UNESCO World Heritage List as the as well as the authenticity and integrity of the most representative and outstanding piece historic of urban heritage in Georgia. The Historic urban fabric. District covers around 12 000 buildings and 1700 listed monuments, and about 5% of the RESILIENCE OUTCOMES city’s population live in this area. However, the physical condition of the historic fabric is • Ensures protection and utilisation of poor. The 2002 earthquake has left buildings Tbilisi’s historical and cultural cracked and damaged, and much of the heritage. aging infrastructure is in need of significant maintenance and renewal. • Preserves and strengthens the city’s cultural identity. Tbilisi City Hall will partner with various • Builds capacity and governance within stakeholders in order to establish the Tbilisi City Hall, which can be applied governance systems needed for the preservation and enhancement of Tbilisi’s to managing other heritage assets. Historic District. This newly developed • Improves housing conditions within governance system will be supported by the Historic District. funding mechanisms and planning instruments to safeguard and rehabilitate the district. Throughout this, we will ensure the essential NEXT STEPS Municipal Urban Development department to secure technical and capacity building assistance from IFIs and external partners to develop regulations, institutional framework and financing models for the management and rehabilitation of Tbilisi’s historic district.

City TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Masterplan Medium Term Aspirational

64 Goal 6 - Grow a resilient tourism economy enhancing quality of life for residents Resilient City Strategy 65 “Together, we will work to develop a

A People-Centered Night-Time Economy night-economy that creates new jobs, activates hidden spaces in the city, ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Economic Development Department, Municipal ACTIONS Department of Culture, Education, Sport and Youth Affairs, Ministry of engages visitors in the cultural life of Internal Affairs IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS the city and revives Tbilisi’s suburbs Tbilisi City Hall Municipal Department of Culture, Education, Sport and Youth Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs Ana Ardelean, Chief Resliience Office

We will support the growth of Tbilisi’s night • An increase in the number of pedestrian economy, and act to ensure it is people areas, restricting car circulation in certain centred, bringing opportunities and benefits to locations residents, as well as visitors to our city. • Support for museums, galleries, music We will collaborate with a range to venues in promoting events across the stakeholders to ensure: capital and extending opening hours • Regulations that provide a safe and • Navette buses operate throughout the inclusive environment. night providing affordable public transport • Night economy workers receive a living wage RESILIENCE OUTCOMES

• We develop good practice in consulting • Promotes Tbilisi’s cultural identity and with local residents when developing new reputation as a diverse visitor destination. night economy activities • Promotes longer stays and generates • We support local street musicians and additional revenues through expansion of market stall businesses in extending their tourist sector. working hours

NEXT STEPS Municipal Economic Development Department and Resilience Office to convene a key stakeholder working group focused on developing Tbilisi’s night-time economy with benefits for local residents. As a first step, this working group should develop a vision and the strategic next steps to guide their work.

Local Economic TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Development Plan Medium Term Aspirational

66 Goal 6 - Grow a resilient tourism economy enhancing quality of life for residents Resilient City Strategy 67 GOAL 7. ACTIVE AND INCLUSIVE TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

We want to ensure our transport networks support a more Implementing the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan resilient urban development, which is people-centred and inclusive. ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Transport Department ACTIONS We aim to develop IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS opportunities that ensure Tbilisi Transport Company (TTC), IFI Partners resident’s travel around the city can enhance their quality of Tbilisi City Hall is developing a strategic institutional capacities. This will also include life and promote more healthy Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP). active lifestyles; assessing the capacity to enforce the plan Funding for this has been provided by the • Setting clear framework for monitoring and Asian Development Bank, and will be finalised The following actions aim to evaluation of plan implementation. in 2020. tackle issues including: traffic The SUMP sets a course of action for Tbilisi congestion, air pollution, access, The SUMP’s overarching priority is to promote between 2020 and 2035. and high levels of private a modal shift, from private car use to public vehicle use. transport and active forms of mobility (walking RESILIENCE OUTCOMES & cycling). • Decreases traffic congestion, and The SUMP will include actions to: provides a safe environment for • Ensure affordable, safe and sustainable pedestrians and drivers alike. mobility and equal access to urban • Integrates land-use and transportation opportunities for all planning to deliver public transport • Create an integrated transport system with infrastructure and accessibility. a well-defined hierarchy which is achieves a • Encourages behavior change in balance between modes. This resilience goal contributes residents travel mode in favor of more • Ensure integration between different sectors walking and more public transport to the following National and different levels of decision-making use. Environmental Action Programme (2017) targets: • Ensure participation and involvement of • Contributes to emissions reduction all stakeholders (including the public) and improve the city’s air quality. Reduce air emissions through throughout the process of SUMP • Enhances the city’s identity by making the regulation of air pollutants development and implementation the city more accessible for local from various economic sectors • Ensure implementability of the plan by residents and visitors. assessing the financial, human, technical and

NEXT STEPS Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan to be finalised and published with a clear action plan for implementation, detailing secured budgets and stakeholder responsibilities.

City Masterplan, TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Green City Action Long Term In Development Plan

68 Resilient City Strategy 69 Mtkvari River Feasibility Study for Tourism Develop Tbilisi’s Street Manual for promoting multi- and Transport modal and active transport

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Municipal Transport Department ACTIONS Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Transport Department ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Municipal Urban Development Department, Economic Policy Department, IFI Partners, specialist consultants, Municipal Inspections Department, Municipal Legal Department, Municipal Infrastructure Department District Administrations Tbilisi Architecture Service, District Administrations, Tbilisi City Assembly, (responsible for neighbourhood scale pedestrian infrastructure) Tbilisi Development Fund.

The Mtkvari River, the largest river in the If tourism and transport infrastructure Tbilisi is dominated by car traffic and This manual will also be an opportunity for Caucasus, runs through the centre of Tbilisi. development is recommended, extensive river congestion, and one of the biggest challenges the relevant local stakeholders to identify The river is a defining feature of the city, and cleaning and rehabilitation works will be key in changing this trend is the poor condition international best practice and create a unique has potential to become an alternative means future steps within the project programme. and limited extent of pedestrian and cycling framework suited to Tbilisi’s identity and of transport through the city. infrastructure. needs.

Tbilisi’s city centre currently faces heavy We will collaborate with IFI experts to develop RESILIENCE OUTCOMES congestion and traffic. River transportation best practice comprehensive design standards and guidance to help planners, engineers, offers the potential to enhance the public • Provides a sustainable and alternative transport system’s connectivity and capacity, designers and other practitioners to create RESILIENCE OUTCOMES means of transport, extending as well as to enhance the experience for safe, integrated and comfortable streets and connectivity and transport options • Provides guidance in designing high visitors. public spaces. This Street Manual and design through the city centre. standards will be key creating a public realm quality active, and accessible forms of Tbilisi City Hall is partnering with the Asian • Enhances the city identity and which encourages walking and cycling, whilst transport. Development Bank to conduct a feasibility ensuring the safe cohabitation of motorised supports tourism. • Improves safety for pedestrian and study for tourism and transport infrastructure and non-motorised modes of transport in • Extends tourism corridors from cycling road users. on the Mtkvari River, between Ortatchala HPP Tbilisi. and Zahesi. Tbilisi’s Old Town, through the full • Triggers behaviour change away from centre of the city. This will initially involve working with IFIs private vehicle use in favor of more to conduct a feasibility study to identify walking, cycling and more public the most relevant standards for effectively transport use. NEXT STEPS managing the interactions between pedestrian, • Contributes to the emissions Tbilisi City Hall to consider feasibility study recommendations and identify appropriate cyclists and motorised vehicles, and the reduction and improve the city’s air infrastructure commitments for the next phase of work. design of sidewalks accessible for all, in Tbilisi. As a second stage, we will then explore quality. opportunities to develop high visibility projects City TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS or pilots, to raise public awareness and support Masterplan Short Term In Development the identified need for change.

NEXT STEPS Municipal Transport Department to secure technical assistance from IFI or external partners to conduct a feasibility study, identifying suitable multi-modal Street Design Standards for Tbilisi.

City Masterplan TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Green City Action Short Term Aspirational Plan

70 Goal 7 - Active and inclusive transport systems Resilient City Strategy 71 A resilient and user-friendly bus network Intelligent Transport Management System

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Transport Department ACTIONS Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Transport Department ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IFI Partners, specialist consultants, Municipal Infrastructure KfW and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Department District Administrations (responsible for neighbourhood Zusammenarbeit) (for feasibility study) and other IFI Partners scale pedestrian infrastructure), Tbilisi Transport Company (TTC)

Tbilisi’s bus services need to be easy, safe Improved and consistent design standards will Our long term goal is to enhance the efficiency and reliable for both residents and visitors to support planners, engineers and designers to and reliability of our transport network. This use. We will collaborate with public transport ensure bus stops are: involves developing an intelligent transport RESILIENCE OUTCOMES planning experts to deliver improvements to management system, with multi-purpose • Orientated to ensure passengers are safe both the infrastructure and design of Tbilisi’s sensors, to collect and integrate real-time data from traffic when alighting • Ensures a data-driven decision-making bus network. on: approach across multiple sectors. • Designed to protect passengers from the i) Enhancing bus procurement tenders: weather • traffic congestion, and pedestrian or public • Promotes integrated and efficient • Recognisable and clearly-signed, in a transport crowding mechanism to managing mobility As Tbilisi renews its bus fleet in the coming consistent way • weather issues - from traffic regulation, years, we want to ensure our new buses are • Equipped with real-time announcements pollution, road safety and enforcement fit for purpose and participate in the effort • air quality monitoring & forecasting and wait-time information for passengers (e.g. vehicle tax, insurance and road towards behaviour change identified in Actions • CCTV safety cameras • Equipped with route maps and apps that worthy regulations. 24 and 25. We will work with experts to can be easily interpreted by all bus network Our first step in achieving this goal is to work integrate and formalise resilience guidelines to • Helps to influence traveller behaviours users. with KfW and GIZ to develop a feasibility study enhance our bus procurement tenders. to evaluate the potential to install intelligent by warning of incidents along routes transport management systems in Tbilisi. and redirecting people to other modes This could include incorporating criteria to of transport. ensure new buses are: In parallel to this, we will create a specific RESILIENCE OUTCOMES • Prepares the transport systems for the Intelligent Transport System division within • designed to low-emission standards; inclusion of automated vehicles • Provides a safe, modern and reliable the Municipal Transport Department to • accessible for all passengers (incorporating manage the current and future transport • Supports crisis management on the inclusive designs to cater to those traveling public transport system to reduce with young children, restricted mobility, or reliance on cars. management systems. transport network. partial vision; • Helps to manage emergency vehicles, • Promotes behaviour change in With this first step in place, we will then • equipped with CCTV for passenger safety; residents’ travel in favour increased identify appropriate infrastructure investment and evacuation routes. • equipped with bike mounts to encourage use of public transport. options and partners for installing a transport multi-modal forms of active travel; • Enhances accessibility of public management system in Tbilisi. • designed to accommodate an increasing transport through inclusive designs. volume of bus users over time. • Reduces CO emissions and NEXT STEPS 2 Municipal Transport Department to consider findings from initial scoping study (Q3-4 2019) and contributes to reducing overall ii) Designing a user-friendly bus network work to secure technical assistance to conduct a feasibility study identifying suitable ITM systems transport emissions. for Tbilisi. We will work with specialists and IFI partners to establish best practice design standards for Tbilisi’s bus stops and information systems. City Masterplan TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Green City Action Medium Term In Development Plan NEXT STEPS Municipal Transport Department to convene a stakeholder working group to consider the findings of the Systra Bus Restructing Study findings (end of 2019) and establish a roadmap for bus infrastructure and procurement enhancements. This working group should also establish which areas require technical assistance from IFIs and external partners.

City Masterplan TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Green City Action Medium Term Aspirational Plan

72 Goal 7 - Active and inclusive transport systems Resilient City Strategy 73 A THRIVING, CONNECTED & ACCESSIBLE CITY IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2030 The actions to make Tbilisi a thriving, Cost Saving Opportunities Brownfield and Industrial Development connected and accessible city require Study collaboration across sectors ranging The installation of an Intelligent Transport from economic and business System provides opportunities to get Resilient Transit Orientated Developments development, vocational training, higher accesibility performance out of employment support, transport planning existing assets, as well as to integrate air Microzonation Study for Seismic Risk and heritage management. quality management sensors across the transport network. An integrated Safe Housing Rehabilitation and Development Fund Together, these actions aim to connect approach to installing sensor Tbilisi’s residents with economic infrastructure could achieve significant Supporting our new and growing economic sectors opportunities, and enhance their quality cost savings. There are also of life. opportunities to also integrate a Improving understanding of transport management system with early skills gaps workforce trends Coordinating economic development warning systems or meteorological with public & active mobility services monitoring systems should also Tbilisi Business Accelerator be investigated. Enhancing accessibility will be key to a Hospitality Skills Training Programme successful, inclusive city economy. Capacity Building Opportunities Residents, visitors and businesses rely on Tourism Strategy and safe, fast and affordable ways to access The private sector and potentially IFI Action Plan for Tbilisi the employment, services, activities, organisations will play a key role in markets and supply chains that they delivering many actions (for example Rehabilitating Parks for Resilience need. Actions 14, 15, 16, 21, 22) successfully. Small Parks Inventory TThe development of partnerships with This is particularly important in and Biodiversity external delivery partners will strengthen assessment developing Tbilisi’s brownfield sites. the city’s capacity to build institutional These locations can only be successfully frameworks to deliver investment and Lisi & Turtle Lakes redeveloped if they are well networked services more rapidly and at Rehabilitation into sustainable and multi-modal greater scale. transport systems which connect them Diverse and Inclusive Visitor Activities fully to the city economy.

Working with Tbilisi’s Architecture Biennale for resilience Restoring natural environments to enhance Tbilisi for residents and visitors Building Capacity for Managing Historic District There are opportunities to incorporate People-Centered Night- Tbilisi’s parks, forests and lakes as part of Time Economy the city’s visitor attractions. Providing a broad range of activities for visitors can Implementing the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan encourage longer stays in the city, bringing many indirect benefits for the Mtkvari River local economy. Tourism Transport Study This can be unlocked by measures to ensure visitors can easily use public Cleaning up Sewerage and Floodwater Networks to prevent Mtkvari River pollution transport to access these areas of the city. Resilient & user-friendly bus network

Street Manual for cycling+walking+public transport

Intelligent Transport Systems

Improving Air Quality Monitoring & Mgmt

74 Resilient City Strategy 75 We are committed to improving air A CITY THAT IS MITIGATES quality 3 AND ADAPTS TO CLIMATE CHANGE

We are investing to reduce the risk Goal 8: of climate change Develop Tbilisi’s Climate Change Strategy We are reducing our GHG emissions Actions 32. Elaborate a Climate Change Strategy for Tbilisi

33. Action Plan for Public Environmental awareness

34. Infrastructure Adaptation Goal 9: Climate Change Commitment Protect healthy natural environments

Actions 32. Rehabilitating Tbilisi’s parks for resilience We value and protect our rivers, 33. Restoring Tbilisi’s forests Everyone makes lakes and forests 34. Inventory of small scale parks an effort to reduce Goal 10: their impact on the 35. Biodiversity Assessment to Act to diversify energy environment protect vulnerable areas sources and reduce 36. Cleaning up sewerage and consumption floodwater networks to prevent Mtkvari River pollution Actions

37. Lisi & Turtle Lake Rehabilitation 40. Feasibility study for green for Recreational Areas energy generation from Landfill

38. Improving Air Quality Monitoring 41. Bio-waste recycling & Management 42. Waste Management Strategy 39. Establishing an Air Quality 43. Energy Efficient Municipal information portal to inform Buildings and Street Lighting decision-making

We have access to healthy parks in our city 76 Resilient City Strategy 77 GOAL 8. DEVELOP TBILISI’S CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY

Elaborating A Climate Change Strategy for Tbilisi

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall, all Departments ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IFI Partners, NGOs, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture

Tbilisi City Hall recognises that the impacts • Identify opportunities to collaborate with of climate change are already affecting the international agencies and cities to learn quality of life for its residents both in the short from and share experiences. term and the future. • Ensure the strategy is reinforced with We aim to develop a comprehensive environmental laws and regulations that aim strategy that aims to enhance Tbilisi’s to improve air quality and natural resource capacity for climate change mitigation and protection. adaptation. Developing this strategy, will • Ensure climate actions in Tbilisi are equitable involve collaborating with multi-sector city and socially inclusive. stakeholders to :

• Identify the actions Tbilisi can take to Resilience Outcomes: contribute to Georgia’s commitments under the EU Georgia Association Agenda and • Develops a coordinated approach Paris Agreement to climate adaptation, strengthening municipal leadership and integrated Tbilisi is one of the fastest growing This goal supports two targets • Establish a multidisciplinary committee planning. cities in the South Caucasus, and is within the EU Georgia Association responsible for delivering and developing a • Promotes sustainable management and home to 1/3 of Georgia’s population. Agenda: climate change strategy development. Yet, the city does not currently have a climate change strategy. • Start implementing new global agreement on Climate Change NEXT STEPS We will develop a Climate Change (Paris Agreement) Tbilisi City Hall to convene cross-department working group, lead by the Environmental Strategy for Tbilisi that : Protection Department, to develop the objectives of a Climate Change Strategy for Tbilisi. Once • Ensure public access to these objectives are agreed, collaboration with IFI partners will be needed to secure technical • enhances our understanding of environmental information assistance to develop a strategy and action plan programme. the potential local impacts of and public participation in global climate trends, decision-making, by involving all TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS • guides Tbilisi City Hall in interested stakeholders, as well Medium Term Aspirational elaborating modern mitigation as by integrating the environment and adapation projects, based on into other policy areas and international best practice; by improving environmental information sharing. • informs integrated planning

• supports Tbilisi to secure state funds for climate action

• contributes to effective measures for protecting local environments in Tbilisi.

78 Resilient City Strategy 79 Action Plan for Public Environmental Awareness Climate Adaptation for Infrastructure Commitment

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Department for Environmental Protection ACTIONS Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Department of Environmental Protection ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Municipal Department for Infrastructure Development, Tbilisi Development EcoService, Tbil’Service Group, Ministry of Environment Protection and Fund, and infrastructure delivery partners Agriculture, private sector, NGOs and educational institutions, National Centre of Disease Control of Georgia, (EU Twinning project Strengthening of Environmental Health Management Capacity) Tbilisi City Hall will allocate 500 million GEL each year for infrastructure improvement Resilience Outcomes: We can only really tackle climate change if • Recommended times to exercise to projects, many of which will incorporate avoid higher air pollution peaks everyone in Tbilisi participates in efforts to climate adaptation, based on guidelines • Invests proactively in protecting and reduce their impact on our environment. • Recommendations to avoid streets and maintaining critical infrastructure. central areas with high pollution developed by UNDP. These guidelines developed within the 4th National Report • Reduces risk from flooding, flash We want to develop a comprehensive Action • Advice for avoiding toxic substance exposure from painted toys to the UNFCC (published in 2019-2020), will flooding, landslides and extreme Plan to promote environmental awareness and • Advice for avoiding contaminants and be used by Georgian authorities to ensure temperatures. behaviour change among Tbilisi’s inhabitants. pesticides from food projects comply with climate adaptation • Recommended practices for ventilating This Action Plan will require strong recommendations. homes to reduce radon levels collaboration, between central and local NEXT STEPS government, civil society, academia, Tbilisi City Hall will adopt guidelines developed by UNDP to identify effective Climate Change educational institutions and media, to develop • Coordinating with kindergartens, schools adaptation projects for funding. It may be necessary to develop some capacity building or a comprehensive plan for delivering effective and universities - to ensure the initiatives training to ensure stakeholders responsible for delivering infrastructure improvements are aware awareness raising campaigns and initiatives. above are integrated within their curriculum of UNFCC guidelines. • Engaging the private sector in the above The Action Plan for Public Environmental activities. Awareness could involve actions such as: TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS These initiatives and campaigns should use Long Term Pre-existing • Recycling & Littering Awareness a variety of social media messaging, TV and Campaigns -encouraging residents to newspaper advertising and campaign days to reduce, reuse and recycle everyday waste ensure vulnerable populations are aware of the materials preventative actions they can take. • Air Pollution Prevention Campaign - increasing public awareness of the links between transport emissions, construction activities and health. Resilience Outcomes:

• Green space and urban biodiversity • Raises awareness of opportunities to conservation initiative - engaging the mitigate health risks. public in tree planting or food growing • Enhances and promote communication activities. channels with residents. • Making public health information widely • Promotes resident well-being and available to help inform the public of improved quality of life. potential environmental risks. This could include:

NEXT STEPS Municipal Environmental Department to convene a cross-departmental working group to identify key objectives and focus areas for raising environmental awareness in Tbilisi, in close co- operation with central government institutions. Once objectives have been established, technical assistance from IFIs and NGOs will be required to develop an action plan which actively engages residents in environmental issues.

TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Medium Term Aspirational

80 Goal 8 - Develop Tbilisi’s climate change strategy Resilient City Strategy 81 GOAL 9. PROTECT HEALTHY NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

Rehabilitating Tbilisi’s Recreational Parks for Resilience

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED We want to secure a rich and Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Department of Environmental Protection ACTIONS accessible local natural environment. We will aim to provide: IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Municipal Development Fund, Tbilisi City Hall, IFI Partners, private funders, NGOs and community groups. • accessible green areas to improve health and leisure opportunities for visitors and residents Tbilisi City Hall will revive existing urban will be integrated into the park design, • enhanced management of local parks and establish two new parks, designing including ecological restoration of polluted water catchments and biodiversity them to be resilient and ready to respond soils, and involvement of local residents in to a mix of city challenges. We will integrate replanting trees and designing playground • green areas across Tbilisi to opportunities for more active lifestyles and facilities and spaces for relaxation, exercise beneficially modify the city playground facilities, we will integrate green or cultural expression. A bird nesting micro-climate and reduce urban flood mitigation infrastructure, and involve and nature reserve will also be restored heat effects. community groups in designing park facilities, and preserved. This will serve as a key to ensure they are community-orientated and inclusive. recreational area for the Gldani and Dighomi districts. We want to ensure residents in all • The previously disused 20 ha territory neighbourhoods have access to good quality at Temkiskhevi will become the biggest outdoor recreational areas. Previously, many park in Tbilisi. Significant environmental parks were in poor condition, with dilapidated remediation works and flood mitigation or unsafe infrastructure, and lacking trees or infrastructure is needed, but the restoration The actions in this goal could lighting at night. of the site would provide flood protection support Tbilisi in meeting five of • Following the damage of the June 13 2015 and access to recreational green space for the National Environmental Action flood, we are rehabilitatingMziuri park, and almost 80,000 residents in the surrounding Programme of Georgia (NEAP) 2017 rebuilding cafes, a puppet museum, bike areas. targets: trails, ponds and walking routes around the • Reduction of water pollution from park. Resilience Outcomes: point and diffuse sources and • Vake,Vera, Veterans, Dedaena, • Provides residents with access to good ensuring sustainable use of Godziashvili, and Gldani parks in the centre quality green space in urban areas. water resources of Tbilisi are being revived with new walking • Restores natural ecosystems, landscapes routes, picnic and seating areas, vegetation • Improvement of the water quality and biodiversity. and trees, playgrounds and irrigation and quantity monitoring and • Enhances attractiveness of Tbilisi to systems. assessment systems residents and visitors. • The City Masterplan identified sites for • Encourages active and healthy lifestyles. • Promotion of sustainable two new city parks. Work is underway to management of biodiversity • Provides flood mitigation, air pollution create a 9000m2 park at Dighmis Tchalebi. mitigation and reduced Urban Heat • Expansion of the protected Here, different nature-inspired solutions Island effects. areas network improvement of the protected area management NEXT STEPS system Municipal Environmental Protection department to secure additional technical and financial • Promotion of sustainable assistance from IFI Partners for the infrastructure construction in Dighmis Tchalebi and park designs for Temkishevi. eco-tourism in protected areas

City Masterplan TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Green City Action Medium Term In Development Plan

82 Goal 9 - Protect healthy natural environments Resilient City Strategy 83 Restoring Tbilisi’s Forests Urban Small Parks Inventory & Biodiversity Assessment

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall Municipal Department of Environmental Protection ACTIONS Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Department of Environmental Protection ACTIONS

IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Private sector businesses, local schools, NGOs, youth and community IFI Partners, specialist consultants organisations One of our top priorities is improving quality Recreational Areas Inventory. The findings of Tbilisi’s surrounding forest areas perform reforestation programme. We aim to replant of life through enhancing the quality and the biodiversity assessment will be used to key functions in preventing natural hazard over 1500 hectares of forests. We will work accessibility of the city’s parks and recreational inform environmental zoning and protection events - such as mudflows, landslides and flash with kindergartens, schools, community facilities. We believe there is a great measures. floods. In recent years, ongoing degradation organisations and businesses to deliver pilot opportunity to restore and revive small green of forest areas has contributed to significant tree planing projects. spaces and parks around the city, especially and destructive mudslide events. In the in neighbourhoods that are currently under- past decade, 20 people have been killed by Resilience Outcomes: Resilience Outcomes served by local parks. However the exact mudslides in Tbilisi. Considerable damage boundaries, and the condition of vegetation has also been inflicted on nearby roads and • Mitigates landslide and mudslide risk. • Provides residents with access to good or technical infrastructure of existing parks is residential houses, as well as water, electricity quality green space in urban areas. • Restores natural ecosystem and currently unknown. and gas networks, resulting in the need to • Restores natural ecosystems, landscapes biodiversity. resettle affected populations. We will undertake a comprehensive inventory and biodiversity. • Promotes public environmental risk and biodiversity assessment of the existing • Enhances attractiveness of Tbilisi to As part of Tbilisi’s Forest Management Plan, awareness amongst all residents. city parks in order to inform a programme of residents and visitors. Tbilisi City hall will co-fund a long-term • Absorbs C02 emissions from atmosphere. park rehabilitation and improvements. This NEXT STEPS will expand upon the recent World Bank Park Environmental Protection Department will work with IFIs and local NGOs to secure assistance for NEXT STEPS long-term reforestation activities. Tbilisi City Hall will organise tree planning activities to engage Municipal Department of Environmental Protection to elaborate technical guidelines for and involve the local population. the small parks inventory and biodiversity assessment based on international best practice. City TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Partnership with IFIs and NGOs will then be required to implement the inventory and Masterplan Medium Term Aspirational assessment.

Green City TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Action Plan Short Term In Development LEARNING FROM TIRANA’S “PLANT YOUR TREE” SPONSORSHIP PROGRAMME

The Municipality of Tirana (Albania) managed to plant 126,000 trees in one year, through various sponsorship programmes.

In partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the city sent letters inviting local businesses to sponsor certain segments of the forest. Other initiatives included appealing to car owners to donate one or two trees per car to reduce pollution. Many local school and community groups also raised funds and volunteered to help planting trees in their local neighbourhoods. “Our ambition is to have a green belt of 2 million trees in the outskirts of the city which will serve to oxygenise Tirana and halt the urban sprawl.”

84 Goal 9 - Protect healthy natural environments Resilient City Strategy 85 Cleaning up Sewerage and Floodwater Networks to Ensuring Lisi & Turtle Lakes are safe for prevent Mtkvari River pollution recreational use

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Environmental Protection Department ACTIONS Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Department of Environmental Protection ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS GWP (for sewerage system interventions), Tbil’Service Group (for National Environmental Agency (NEA); Other technical departments floodwater interventions), in collaboration with IFI partners responsible for the management of sewerage, drainage, water quality, tourism and agriculture; Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology, Tbilisi. IFI partners for technical and funding assistance. The Mtkvari River suffers from high levels of • developing appropriate regulations and pollution, caused by surface water run-off governance mechanisms to ensure the city We aim to provide residents with the from roads, industrial sites and agricultural is able to prevent and manage future flood opportunity to use Lisi and Turtle lakes as land around the City. There is currently no and pollution events. strategy for the management and maintenance recreational spaces for water-sports of the storm water network, and there many and swimming. Resilience Outcomes: instances where sewage pipes are connected We will collaborate with IFI partners to to the drainage system, resulting in polluted • Restores natural ecosystems, landscapes conduct a comprehensive assessments of the and biodiversity. water flowing into the river. lakes’ water quality and contamination sources • Enhances attractiveness of Tbilisi to to ensure they comply to national standards We will collaborate with experts to establish a residents and visitors. Resilience Outcomes: comprehensive programme of actions to clean and EU regulations for bathing. Water levels • Restores and protects a key city the Mtkvari River. This involves: in these lakes have been decreasing in recent • Increases the capacity of Tbilisi to years, therefore research and remediation water sources. reduce damage and recover effectively • in-depth research to develop a thorough solutions will also be considered to ensure following a flood or flash flood event. understanding of the existing infrastructure, sustainable management of water levels in • Restores and protects a key city through surveying and fieldwork; the future. ecosystem and water source. • developing a strategy for separating flood • Opens up opportunties for transport NEXT STEPS water and sewerage networks; and economic developments along the Municipal Department of Environmental Protection to secure technical assistance from IFI and • identifying priority areas and feasible river, enhancing the area for residents external partners to develop a prioritised Action and Implementation Plan for rehabilitating Lisi infrastructure solutions, prioritising the most and visitors. and Turtle Lakes. This would involve an assessment of current water quality status, pollution vulnerable and worst affected locations. This sources and the causes of recent water level change. This technical assistance should also study should be informed by meteorological incorporate the development of a water quality monitoring programme to ensure the longterm rehabilitation of the lakes. monitoring stations across the city (See Action 12); TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS NEXT STEPS Medium Term Aspirational Municipal Environmental Protection Department to secure technical assistance from IFI and external partners to conduct baseline research identifying priority areas for interventions. With a reliable baseline established, key stakeholders will be able to develop a comprehensive rehabilitation programme.

City TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Masterplan Medium Term Aspirational

86 Resilient City Strategy 87 Establishing an Air Quality information portal to inform Improving Air Quality Monitoring & Management decision-making

ACTION OWNERS CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Department of Environmental Protection ACTIONS Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Department of Environmental Protection ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS National Environment Agency (NEA) of the Ministry of IMPLEMENTING PARTNER Environmental Protection and Agriculture, Smart|AtmoSIM Lab at Environmental Information and Education Centre, National Environmental Tbilisi State University Agency (NEA), of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture

Across Tbilisi, five permanent air quality This work is aligned with the EU Air Quality stations are operated by the National Directive (2008/50), encouraging cities We will work with partners to centralise and decision of Government of Georgia from July Environment Agency (NEA) and used to introduce air quality assessment and publish air quality data on a new portal, 12, 2017) and the National Action Plan for the by SMART | AtmoSIM Lab at Tbilisi State management protocols to facilitate monitoring making it available to both the public and implementation of obligations in air pollution University. and inform decision making. political decision makers, with the aim of management based on EU-Georgia association improving understanding of the impact of air agreement (2014). The coverage of these stations across the city This work also contributes to the state pollution on human and environmental health. is currently limited – both in the number of program for reduction of air pollution in Tbilisi sampling points and the range of pollutants (1457 decision of Government of Georgia from This portal will also feature guidance and Resilience Outcomes: measured. July 12, 2017) and the National Action Plan for advice developed with the World Health implementation of obligations in air pollution Organisation, on reducing exposure to air • Increases transparency in air quality We will ensure further resources and management based on EU-Georgia association pollution. monitoring. equipment in order to improve both the agreement (2014). • Improves air quality. monitoring and forecasting of air quality in Portal Link: http://air.gov.ge/ • Increases public awareness of health risks Tbilisi by SMART AtmoSIM Lab. This will create This portal and the information it publishes associated with air pollution, and reduces a comprehensive evidence base of air quality Resilience Outcomes: will contribute to the State program for the exposure to air pollution hot-spots. monitoring data, to inform vehicle regulations • Improves understanding of air pollution reduction of air pollution in Tbilisi (1457 and restrictions. sources, and opportunities to act with We will also revise building code regulations regulation and policy. NEXT STEPS to ensure dust and air pollution coming from • Establishes a more robust and accurate Municipal Department of Environmental Protection to work with media, educational and NGO construction sites are reduced. air quality monitoring system for Tbilisi. partners to further promote public knowledge of this site, and to ensure the integration of air quality information in transport and urban development decision making. • Provides information to inform awareness raising and behaviour change campaigns . TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Short Term Pre-existing NEXT STEPS Municipal Department of Environmental Protection to secure funding for expansion of Tbilisi’s air quality monitoring and management equipment with IFI partners where necessary. Opportunities to integrate air quality monitoring sensors within an Intelligent Transport Management System (Action 28) should certainly be pursued, to ensure cost saving installation and operational efficiencies.

TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Medium Term In Development

88 Goal 9 - Protect healthy natural environments Resilient City Strategy 89 GOAL 10. ACT TO DIVERSIFY ENERGY SOURCES AND REDUCE CONSUMPTION Feasibility Study for Green Energy Generation from Landfill

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbil’Service Group ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IFI Partners This programme of projects acts to reduce Tbilisi’s green house gas emissions and carbon footprint. We will collaborate with experts and seek IFI could transform Tbilisi’s landfill into a revenue assistance and funding to conduct a feasibility generating asset, delivering the following These projects also aim to increase study for a co-generation plant at Norio, environmental and financial benefits for energy efficiency and security for Tbilisi’s municipal landfill. Co-generation the city. the city through innovative forms could provide the city with an efficient and of technology environmentally friendly means of generating heat and electricity at the same time, reducing Resilience Outcomes: both GHG emissions and dependency on fossil fuels. This alternative energy source • Enables local production of Tbilisi’s own could enhance Tbilisi’s natural resources, by climate neutral gas. contributing to cleaner air quality. • Reduces dependency on buying electricity from providers, and the Tbilisi Municipality City Hall is one This study will contribute to the City’s energy possibility of selling the electricity of the signatories of the “Covenant efficiency ambitions and wider Sustainable produced to distributors. of Mayors” and has assumed the Energy Action Plan. With proper management, commitment: it is possible that co-generation technology

• To reduce at least 20% of CO2 NEXT STEPS emissions by 2020 Tbil’Service Group and Resilience Office to secure technical assistance from IFIs or external partners to conduct a feasibility study, identifying potential quantities of landfill gas available, • To develop a Sustainable Energy installation and operating costs and economic viability and options for connecting electricity Action Plan (SEAP) generation facility to nearby distribution stations. • To raise public awareness on Green City Action TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS energy efficiency and renewable Plan Short Term In Development energy sources

• To promote energy efficiency projects

The actions in this goal contribute to these objectives.

These actions also contribute to the EU Georgia Association Agenda obligation to:

• Invest in energy efficiency and security

90 Goal 10 - Diversify energy sources and reducing consumption Resilient City Strategy 91 Bio-waste Recycling Waste Management Strategy

ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ACTION OWNER CONNECTED Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Department of Environmental Protection Tbilisi City Hall, Municipal Department of Environmental Protection ACTIONS ACTIONS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS EBRD, Tbil’Service Group EcoService Group, IFI Partners

Tbilisi City Hall will partner with the European We are collecting all green waste from the Bank for Reconstruction and Development Resilience Outcomes: city’s green spaces, and we want to ensure (EBRD) to develop Tbilisi’s first Waste this matter is composted, and made available • Reduces the waste produced by city Management Strategy. This will identify for reuse in parks and in agriculture. Over 350 and increases the amount diverted from Resilience Outcomes: opportunities to process waste for use in tonnes of green waste is collected each year. landfill. different purposes, promote new jobs, and This could be composted and diverted from • Reduces the amount of waste going protect the city’s natural environment. The • Encourages more sustainable behaviours going into landfill. to landfill, thus limiting the associated strategy will be published in 2019, and set the and empowers residents to make We will establish a green waste facility that will environmental and economic impacts course of action for the city until 2030. informed choices around waste. initially convert bio-waste into compost, with and cost. the potential to upscale to recycle food waste • Reduces Tbilisi’s carbon footprint NEXT STEPS from restaurants and catering businesses in the • Embeds circular economy principals to Municipal Department of Environmental Protection to oversee publication and implementation of future. This would enable potentially 200,000 make waste a resource for new products Waste Management Strategy, with a dedicated budget and action plan. tones of waste to be recycled annually. and services.

This project contributes to Georgia’s Waste Green City Action TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Plan Management Code and the EU-Georgia Long Term Pre-existing association agreement.

NEXT STEPS Tbilisi City Hall to seek technical assistance from IFIs or external partners to conduct a feasibility study identifying relevant bio-waste recycling technologies. Funding will then need to be secured from IFIs (with part funding from Tbilisi City Hall) in order to purchase and install the green waste facility.

Green City Action TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Plan Long Term In Development

92 Goal 10 - Diversify energy sources and reducing consumption Resilient City Strategy 93 A CITY THAT ADAPTS TO CLIMATE CHANGE IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP Energy Efficient Municipal Buildings and Street

Lighting The actions to support Tbilisi in mitigating and adapting Economic Development Benefits to climate change require collaboration across sectors As mentioned previously, the improvement of Tbilisi’s ACTION OWNER CONNECTED ranging from ecosystem management, biodiversity air quality and city environment as well as the Tbil’Service Group(for LED lighting), and Tbilisi City Hall Municipal ACTIONS conservation, and air quality monitoring, to urban rehabilitation of Tbilisi’s parks, forests and lakes could Economic Development Department (for Energy Efficiency Retrofit) planning, building design, energy efficiency and greatly enhance the attractiveness of Tbilisi to visitors IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS infrastructure rehabilitation. and investors- especially if they are easily accessed by Tbil’Service Group, IFI Partners public transport. Together, these actions ensure investments in city infrastructure and ecosystems will protect and serve Cost Saving Opportunities We will identify and implement energy saving be strengthened by the energy efficiency Tbilisi’s residents into the future. The adoption of energy efficient infrastructures and solutions for municipal buildings, public spaces regulations due to come into effect in 2025. other mitigation and adaptation measures also help and streets. Benefits to Public Health to create a city with lower resource requirements - This will help to improve the efficiency of Many factors associated with climate change, reducing running costs for public agencies, businesses Street Lighting: we will investigate municipal services, achieve cost savings, and lifestyles and local environments (e.g. air pollution) are and residents. opportunities to replace existing lighting reduce environmental impacts. It will also contributing to increased long-term health risks for with more energy efficient LED Lights. We support Tbilisi’s commitments under the city populations. However, climate change adaptation Capacity Building Opportunities will also install LED street lighting in all new Covenant of Mayors strategies can have multiple co-benefits for health – The extensive partner city network created by 100RC neighbourhoods and those undergoing from creating a cooler city with higher air quality, to will enable Tbilisi and its local partners to learn from renovation works. • introducing more opportunities for active travel and the broad experience of other cities in developing and physical leisure activities. implementing climate change mitigation and adaptation Energy Efficient Buildings: We will act upon Resilience Outcomes: strategies. the energy efficiency guidelines set out in the City Masterplan and the recommendations • Reduces Green House Gas (GHG) from the World Bank’s initial energy efficiency emissions. 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2030 assessment report (2017). We will be • Mitigates air pollution. A Climate Change Strategy starting with priority/small scale pilots To for Tbilisi implement energy saving and green solutions • Improves quality of municipal services and increases operational cost savings. Action Plan for such as solar panels, reducing energy and Environmental Awareness water consumption, and upgrading HVAC and monitoring systems. This work will Infrastructure Adaptation Commitment Rehabilitating Parks for Resilience NEXT STEPS Developing diverse and inclusive LED Street Lighting: Action Owners to secure technical assistance for implementing street visitor activities lighting and developing standards for ongoing renovations. Energy Efficient Buildings: Action Owners to develop an implementation plan for energy Small Parks Inventory and Biodiversity assessment efficiency retrofitting (aligned with national energy efficiency legislation), with priority buildings identified for initial pilot projects. Landslide Risk Assessment Green City Action TIMEFRAME STATUS SDGS Restoring Tbilisi’s Forests Plan Medium Term In Development Diverse and Inclusive Visitor Activities

Mtkvari River Tourism Transport Study

Cleaning up Sewerage and Floodwater Networks to prevent Mtkvari River pollution

Lisi & Turtle Lakes Rehabilitation

Improving Air Quality Monitoring & Mgmt

Intelligent Transport Systems

Air Quality Portal

Green Energy from Landfill Feasibility Study

Bio-waste Recycling

Waste Management Strategy

Energy Efficient Municipal Buildings & Street Lighting

94 Goal 10 - Diversify energy sources and reducing consumption Resilient City Strategy 95 NEXT STEPS Now we have developed the Next Steps

Resilient Tbilisi Strategy, the Implementing the Strategy Actions real work can start! Our efforts will now turn to implementing the actions described in this strategy. We recognize that this strategy is We will work in close collaboration with ambitious, but we believe we can unlock experts, public agencies and IFI and the necessary resources to make these external partners to develop detailed actions a reality. This will be achieved implementation plans and concept notes, through local, national, and international which assign timelines, responsibilities partnerships. This strategy will serve as and resources to each of the projects, the foundation for working with these to ensure they are delivered. These are partners, providing a coherent and currently in progress. thoughtful road map for action and innovation. The diagram overleaf provide a timeline for implementing the Actions wtihin Tbilisi’s Resilience Office Tbilisi’s Resilience Strategy. Within Tbilisi City Hall, we will establish a Tbilisi will continue in its collaborations City Resilience Office, under the Mayor’s with IFI and Strategic Partners and the administration. This office, headed by the 100 Resilience Cities network. Through Chief Resilience Officer will be tasked this continued knowledge exchange, we with implementing Tbilisi’s Resilience hope strategy stakeholders can continue Strategy, in close collaboration with the to work with other like-minded cities on Heads of Department of City Hall and co-designing resilient urban solutions. other key partners. Embedding resilience in behaviours and norms is a challenge for the future. Long lasting changes for resilience will only come about if they are embraced and owned throughout Tbilisi City Hall and other key institutions, not just within one municipal office.

96 Resilient City Strategy 97 IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2030

Accelerating structural assessment and rehabilitation programme for Tbilisi’s kindergartens Ensuring kindergarten spaces for all eligible children Engaging the community in redesigning kindergartens for the future Integrating energy efficient and green space solutions into kindergartens Working with Tbilisi’s Architecture Biennale for resilience Microzonation Study for Seismic Risk Safe Housing Rehabilitation and Development Fund Emergency Response Committee Disaster Response & Recovery Plan

Community Emergency preparedness and risk awareness training programme A city that is protected and safe

Emergency Response Preparedness in kindergartens

Landslide Risk Assessment 1 Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment & Early Warning System Brownfield and Industrial Development Study

Resilient Transit Orientated Developments Supporting our new and growing economic sectors Improving understanding of skills gaps workforce trends Tbilisi Business Accelerator Tourism Strategy and Action Plan for Tbilisi Hospitality Skills Training Programme Diverse and Inclusive Visitor Activities Building Capacity for Managing Historic District People-Centered Night Economy accessible city accessible Implementing the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan

Mtkvari River Tourism Transport Study

A city with a thriving, connected & Resilient & user-friendly bus network

2 Street Manual for cycling+walking+public transport

Intelligent Transport Systems

A Climate Change Strategy for Tbilisi

Action Plan for Environmental Awareness Infrastructure Adaptation Commitment Rehabilitating Parks for Resilience

Small Parks Inventory and Biodiversity assessment

Restoring Tbilisi’s Forests

Cleaning up Sewerage and Floodwater Networks to prevent Mtkvari River pollution Lisi & Turtle Lakes Rehabilitation Improving Air Quality Monitoring & Mgmt climate changeclimate Air Quality Portal Green Energy Generation from Landfill Feasibility Study Bio-waste Recycling A city that innovates and adapts to Waste Management Strategy 3 Energy Efficient Municipal Buildings & Street Lighting

98 Resilient City Strategy 99 PUBLIC SECTOR SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTATION Resilience Projects Vision/Action 2019-2021 2021-2023 2023-2025 2025-2027 2027-2030

A CITY THAT IS PROTECTED AND SAFE Public sector bodies and NGOs will play a central role in the delivery of this Resilience Strategy, as 6. Microzonation Study Convening often they are responsible for implementing change in the city. These roles fall into one of five broad for Seismic Risk Finance categories, detailed below. Regulations & Standards

Convening stakeholders to deliver actions - this involves taking a leadership role to bring 7. Safe Housing Convening Delivering Rehabilitation and together different agencies or departments to agree and implement a course of action. Regulations & Standards Development Fund This also involves regular coordination and being accountable for ensuring the action is Finance implemented, with the intended impact. 8. Establish an Convening Delivering Ensuring regulatory guidance and performance standards are met - this involves providing Emergency Response Regulations & Standards Committee for Tbilisi the legislation, regulations, policies or standards required to ensure actions are delivered to Communication the agreed local, national or international standards. This may also involve updating existing policies and laws, or establishing new regulations based on the outputs of an action, to 9. Emergency Response Convening Delivering and Recovery Plan ensure its impact is sustained in the long-term. Communication

Communication - this involves different types of outreach activities, tailored to different 10. Community Convening stakeholders, to ensure an action and its outcomes are disseminated. Making people aware preparedness and risk Communication of an action can be key in facilitating its success. This may also involve activities to engage awareness training programme residents, businesses and civil society stakeholders in parts of the action. 11. Emergency Response Convening` Coordinating or raising finance - this may involve funding or part-funding an action, by Preparedness Communication accessing municipal or national budget, or working with private sector or IFI organisations to Programme in Kindergartens finance an action. 12. Landslide and Ground Regulations & Standards Acting as primary delivery agency: many actions fall within the responsibility of city Instability Risk Communication Assessment and wider government agencies to deliver both infrastructure investment and services.

Appropriately supported and funded, these agencies remain the best placed and most 13. Multi Hazard Risk Convening Finance

accountable bodies to deliver many long-term programmes. Assessment and Early Communication Warning System In some cases, public agencies will need to work in close collaboration with private sector A CITY THAT IS THRIVING, CONNECTED & ACCESSIBLE organisations or IFIs to implement and finance actions. The role of private sector organisations and 14. Brownfield Convening Delivering Communication IFIs is detailed in the following section. and Industrial Finance Development Strategy Regulations & Standards Resilience Projects 15. Transport-Orientated- Convening Delivering Communication Vision/Action 2019-2021 2021-2023 2023-2025 2025-2027 2027-2030 Development for new Finance Metro developments Regulations & Standards A CITY THAT IS PROTECTED AND SAFE 16 Supporting New and Convening Delivering 1. Accelerating the Convening Delivering Growing Economic structural assessment Communication Finance Sectors & rehabilitation programme for Regulations & Standards 17. Workforce trends & Convening Tbilisi’s kindergartens skills gaps study Finance 2. Ensuring kindergarten Regulations & Standards Regulations & Standards spaces for all eligible Convening Delivering 18. Tbilisi Business Convening children Accelerator Regulations & Standards 3. Integrate energy Regulations & Standards Convening Delivering efficient, and green Finance 19. Hospitality Skills space solutions into Training Programme Tbilisi’s kindergartens 4. Engage the Convening 20. Tourism Strategy and Convening- Delivering Action Plan for Tbilisi community in Communication Regulations & Standards redesigning Finance kindergartens for the 21. Diverse & Inclusive Convening Communication future Visitor Activities Regulations & Standards 5. Working with Tbilisi’s Convening Architecture Biennale Communication 22. Safeguarding, Convening Delivering Regulations & Standards for resilience Preserving & Finance Managing Historic District Communication

100 Resilient City Strategy 101 PUBLIC SECTOR SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTATION IFI AND PRIVATE SECTOR SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTATION Vision/Action 2019-2021 2021-2023 2023-2025 2025-2027 2027-2030 A CITY THAT IS THRIVING, CONNECTED & ACCESSIBLE We intend to begin implementing the strategy immediately. To do this, we will need assistance and expertise from IFIs, and private sector specialists, many of whom have played long-term roles in 23. A People-Centered Convening Regulations & Standards supporting the development of Tbilisi and Georgia as a whole. We have assumed that IFIs will be Night-Time Economy Communication involved in interventions which match their country programs and mandates. Some actions would 24. !mplementing the Convening Regulations & Standards suit private sector involvement. In these cases, a clear commercial model and opportunities for the Sustainable Urban Communication private sector to generate revenue and returns from the interventions would need to be developed. Mobility Plan Finance In some cases, the private sector or IFI would need to work in partnership with each other or other 25. Mtkvari River Tourism Convening Communication delivery partners. Hence, this assistance could involve one or more of the following over different Transport Study phases: 26. Develop Tbilisi’s Convening Delivering ‘Street Manual’ Regulations & Standards Capacity Building - supporting organisations or departments to obtain, improve and retain the 27. A resilient and user- Convening Regulations & Standards skills, knowledge, tools, enabling frameworks, equipment or resources needed to do their work friendly bus network Finance competently or to add greater capacity. This can be part of an IFI TA programme, if specialist Communication training or knowledge dissemination is required, or a targeted initiative by relevant delivery 28. Intelligent Transport Convening Regulations & Standards partners. Management Systems Finance Infrastructure Investment - capital investment in utility networks, public amenities, built A CITY THAT MITIGATES AND ADAPTS TO CLIMATE CHANGE environment or techology networks. This may be grant funded, loan funded or funded through

29. Elaborate a Climate Convening Delivering Regulations & Standards public-private partnerships. Change Strategy for Communication Tbilisi Technical assistance (TA) - non-financial assistance or resource allocation provided by local or international specialists, sharing expertise in the form of feasibility studies, risk assessments, 30. Action Plan Convening Delivering Regulations & Standards skills training, strategy development or standard reviews. For Increasing Communication Environmental Awareness Resilience Projects 31. Climate Adaptation Convening Regulations & Standards Vision/Action 2019-2021 2021-2023 2023-2025 2025-2027 2027- for Infrastructure Finance 2030 Commitment A CITY THAT IS PROTECTED AND SAFE 32. Rehabilitating Tbilisi’s Convening Delivering Communication Parks for Resilience Finance 1. Accelerating the TA Regulations & Standards structural assessment Capacity Building & rehabilitation 33. Restoring Tbilisi’s Convening Delivering Communication programme for Infrastructure Investment Forests Finance Tbilisi’s kindergartens Regulations & Standards 34. Inventory Urban Convening 2. Ensuring kindergarten TA Parks & Biodiversity Regulations & Standards spaces for all eligible Infrastructure Investment Assessment Finance children 35. Cleaning up Sewerage Convening 3. Integrate energy TA efficient, and green Infrastructure Investment and Floodwater Finance Networks to prevent space solutions into Mtkvari River pollution Regulations & Standards Tbilisi’s kindergartens 36. Lisi & Turtle Lake Convening Communication 4. Engage the Capacity Building community in Rehabilitation For Finance Regulations & Standards TA Recreational Area redesigning kindergartens Infrastructure Investment 37, Improving Air Quality Convening Finance Delivering 5. Working with Tbilisi’s - Monitoring Communication Architecture Biennale Regulations & Standards for resilience 38. Air Quality Portal - for Delivering 6. Microzonation Study Capacity Building decision-making Communication for Seismic Risk Infrastructure Investment 39. Feasibility Study for Convening Finance Green Energy Generation Regulations & Standards 7. Safe Housing TA from Landfill Rehabilitation and Capacity Building 40. Bio-Waste recycling Convening Finance Development Fund Infrastructure Investment Regulations & Standards 8. Establish an Capacity- Building 41. Waste Management Delivering Regulations & Standards Emergency Response Strategy Communication Committee for Tbilisi 42. Energy Efficient Convening Finance 9. Emergency Response Capacity Building Municipal Buildings Regulations & Standards and Recovery Plan and Street Lighting

102 Resilient City Strategy 103 IFI AND PRIVATE SECTOR SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTATION Vision/Action 2019-2021 2021-2023 2023-2025 2025-2027 2027-2030 A CITY THAT IS PROTECTED AND SAFE A CITY THAT MITIGATES AND ADAPTS TO CLIMATE CHANGE Vision/Action 2019-2021 2021-2023 2023-2025 2025-2027 2027-2030 29. Elaborate a Climate TA 10. Community Capacity Building Change Strategy for Capacity Building preparedness and risk Tbilisi awareness training 30. Develop an Action TA programme Plan for Increasing Capacity Building 11. Emergency Response Capacity` Building Environmental Preparedness Awareness Programme in 31. Climate Adaptation - Kindergartens for Infrastructure 12. Landslide and Ground - Commitment Instability Risk 32. Rehabilitating Tbilisi’s TA Assessment Parks for Resilience Infrastructure 13. Multi Hazard Risk Capacity- Building Assessment and Early TA 33. Restoring Tbilisi’s TA Warning System Infrastructure Investment Forests A CITY THAT IS THRIVING, CONNECTED & ACCESSIBLE 34. Inventory for small TA scale Urban Parks 14. Brownfield TA Capacity Building & Biodiversity and Industrial Capacity Building Assessment Development Strategy 35. Cleaning up Sewerage TA 15. Transport-Orientated- TA and Floodwater Infrastructure Investment Development for new Capacity Building Networks to prevent Metro developments Mtkvari River pollution 36. Lisi & Turtle Lake TA 16 Supporting New and Infrastructure Investment Rehabilitation For Infrastructure Investment Growing Economic Recreational Area Sectors Capacity Building 17. Workforce trends & TA 37, Improving Air Quality TA Monitoring skills gaps study Capacity Building Infrastructure

18. Tbilisi Business TA Infrastructure Investment 38. Air Quality Portal - for - Accelerator decision making 19. Hospitality Skills - Training Programme 39. Feasibility Study TA for Green Energy Infrastructure 20. Tourism Strategy and TA Generation from Action Plan for Tbilisi Capacity Building Landfill 21. Diverse & Inclusive TA 40. Bio-waste recycling TA Capacity Building Visitor Activities Capacity Building Infrastructure Investment

22. Safeguarding, TA 41. Waste Management - Preserving & Capacity Building Strategy Managing Historic District Infrastructure Investment 42. Energy Efficient TA 23. A People-Centered - Municipal Buildings Infrastructure Night-Time Economy and Street Lighting 24. Sustainable Urban TA Mobility Plan Infrastructure Investment 25. Mtkvari River Tourism - Transport Study

26. Develop Tbilisi’s TA ‘Street Manual’ Capacity Building 27. A resilient and user- Capacity Building friendly bus network 28. Intelligent Transport TA Management Systems Capacity Building Infrastructure Investment

104 Resilient City Strategy 105 MONITORING AND EVALUATING THE STRATEGY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

The Resilience Office, in collaboration • Multiple Benefits : Do actions also In September 2015, the Governments with key stakeholders across Tbilisi City contribute, either directly, or indirectly of 193 member Countries of the Hall and partner agencies, will undertake to other goals (social, economic, United Nations Organization signed a 3-year review early in 2021, to provide environmental) listed in this strategy? “Transforming our World: the 2030 recommendations to further improve the This is important for recognising the Agenda for Sustainable Development.” strategy. synergies between actions. This is an action program designed for the prosperity of people and the planet Ideally monitoring and evaluation exercises This extensive program aims to tackle follow a systematic process which provides Based on the results of a strategy issues including rapid urbanisation, a rigorous evidence-base to inform evaluation, the Actions list may be resource use, poverty and climate decision-making. amended, taking into account the progress change, and focuses on the role of local and lessons learnt, and reviewing our This could include evaluation questions and regional institutions or actors within resilience challenges to ensure they remain such as: these challenges. relevant. The framework is structured with 17 • Relevance - To what extent are the Before commencing with a monitoring Sustainable Development Goals actions addressing and mitigating Tbilisi’s and evaluation study, performance These goals are intended as mechanisms key shocks and stresses. indicators for each action will need to be for municipalities, businesses or countries • Effectiveness - What effects, or impacts developed. These should be based on the to report on their contribution and have been obtained by the Actions? evaluation questions above, but could also impact on these global goals in an • Cost-effectiveness & efficiency: How incorporate the Sustainable Development effective and comparable way. efficiently have the various inputs been Goal indicators, or other city performance converted into outputs and results? metrics. Were the expected effects obtained at a reasonable cost? The diagram below illustrates a proposed monitoring and evaluation strategy in five • Sustainability: Will the effects achieved steps. Our Resilience Strategy last in the medium or long term? support’s Tbilisi contribution to the Sustainable Development Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Goals.

develop performance develop evaluation evaluate the pros and indicators to criteria, and identify cons of data sources. Icons in each of the project measure the impact knowledge or data overviews highlights the of each action. gaps. Tbilisi’s Resilience Strategy contribution made one or more contributes directly to of the SDGs Goal 11 ‘Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Task 4 Task 5 Task 6

consultation with review proposed reporting and stakeholders to indicators, and recommendations answer evaluation review findings with questions. stakeholders.

106 Resilient City Strategy 107 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES

Over 40 people, from 14 Kindergarten Management Agency Strategy Partners BuroHappold • Tbilisi’s Preliminary Resilience different organisations • Kakha Gvantseladze - Head of Agency • Lawrie Robertson, Partner, Strategic Assessment (2018) contributed to preparing • Mariam Goginashvili – Head of the Cities and Regional Planning • Association Agenda betweeen the Department of Tbilisi Kindergarten • Mehrnaz Ghojeh, Senior Consultant, European Union and Georgia 2017-2020, Tbilisi’s first Resilience Strategy. Strategic Cities and Regional Planning Development http://www.parliament.ge/uploads/ Municipal Department of Economic • Juliette Aplin, Consultant, Strategic other/78/78447.pdf [Accessed 4 March Municipal Government Cities and Regional Planning Development 2019] • Ana Ardelean, Chief Resilience Officer • Adarsh Varma, Associate Director, • Irakli Gokhelashvili – Chief Specialist • Green City Action Plan (2016), • Maia Bitadze – Deputy Mayor Economic Development • Nino Maghradze – Department Deputy European Bank for Reconstruction and • Giorgi Kiknadze - Head of Mayor’s • Connor Mackenzie, Content Design Head Development, http://www.tbilisi.gov.ge/ Office Consultant, Strategies and Plans • Nata Kurkhuli - Chief Specialist page/green-city?lang=en [Accessed 5 • Vladimer Chighladze - Head of • Kakhaber Bakhtadze, Environmental • Tengiz Jokhadze - Head of Division Administration Consultant (ELAC) March 2019] • Nanuka Aghlemashvili - Deputy • Tbilisi Land Use Masterplan (2019-2030) Mayors Office Tbil’Service Group Image Acknowledgements • Local Economic Development Plan • Nia Rusadze - Deputy Mayors Office • Lasha Kajaia - Head of Administration • Images courtesy of Tblisi City Hall (2018) • Davit Chakseliani - Head of Justice • Images courtesy of 100 Resilient Cities • Sustainable Energy Action Plan, City of Municipal Transport Department: Department • Images sourced from unsplash.com Tbilisi For 2011-2020 • Davit Jaiani - Deputy Head Cover: Giorgi Gvilava • Third National Environmental Action Pg 26: Jaanus Jagomagi • Elene Khundadze - Head of Transport Programme of Georgia (NEAP), (2017- Municipal Department of Healthcare Pg 96: Jairph Policy and Planning Division and Social Services Pg 61: Liam Mckay 2021) • Salome Sharashenidze - Chief • Goga Sopromadze - Executive Pg 67: Mark Billante • Georgia Skills Mismatch and Specialist at Transport Policy and Secretary of Council of Persons with Pg 2: Nazym Duzbayeva Unemployment Labour Market Planning Division Pg 78, 99: Sergey Kuznetsov Disabilities Affairs at Tbilisi City Hall Challenges, World Bank 2013, https:// • Pg 33, 53, 77 Illustrations: openknowledge.worldbank.org/ Connor Mackenzie (BuroHappold) International Relations Division National Environmental Agency (NEA) handle/10986/15985 [Accessed 5 March • Lika Davitadze - Head of International • Irakli Megrelidze - Deputy Head of 2019] Relations Division Hydrometeorological Department • Nino Beglarishvili - Senior officer • Ioseb Kinkladaze - Head of Disastrous (International Relations Division) Hydrometeorological Early Warnings • Revaz Kotrikadze - Senior Officer Section (International Relations Division)

SMART | AtmoSim Lab, at Tbilisi State Municipal Department for Urban University Development • Dr. George Jibuti - Head of the • Davit Asanidze - Head of Urban Laboratory. Assistant Professor Planning and Renewal Division • Nana Zazanashvili - Urban Policy Department Ilia State University’s Institute of • Gvantsa Nikolaishvili - Deputy Head Earth Sciences and National Seismic • Rusudan Mirzikashvili - Former Head Monitoring Centre of Urban Development Department • Dr Tea Godoladze, Director (March-August 2018) • Lasha Sukhishvili, Head of the Department Municipal Department of Environment Protection: 100 Resilient Cities • Tamara Sharashidze - Deputy Head • Lina Liakou, Managing Director EMEA • Mariam Berulashvili - Head of • Luis Alvarado, Program Manager, City and Practice Management Integrated Management Division • Sameer Bagaeen, Associate Director

108 Resilient City Strategy 109 GLOSSARY GLOSSARY

Action Anything that deliberately Emergency An emergency management plan is Scale The level at which the change contributes to the functioning Response a course of action developed to sought by the initiative is meant or development of the city, and mitigate the damage of potential to happen. Example scales including a practice, plan, strategy, Prepared- events that could endanger an include household, neighborhood, program, project, initiative, study, ness organization or city’s ability to institution, sector, municipality, assessment, legislation or provision Plan function. Such a plan should citywide, metropolitan region, of funding include measures that provide national, and international. for the safety of people and, if Shock A sudden event that threatens a Mission A strategic direction that the city possible, property and facilities. city, such as an earthquake, flood will pursue to achieve the vision Institution Long term, structural change or landslide Goal A tenable and attainable objective -alisation achieved by embedding resilience Stress A chronic (ongoing or cyclical) into how a city plans and operates. natural or man-made event or The critical work of City Leaders phenomenon that renders the city ACTION and CROs operationalizing the less able to function and provide basic services, particularly for poor STATUS function of resilience in their institutions in order to adapt and or vulnerable populations. Pre-existing Action that already exists in the evolve city systems to better Municipality that will be reinforced support resilience building. This with a resilience approach. includes making the CRO or In Action currently being planned Resilience Office permanent, as ABBREVIATIONS development together with the Resilience Office. well as changes to city planning and operations that will better 100RC 100 Resilient Cities Aspirational Action that requires further support resilience building. research and planning. Inclusive Design principal ensuring CCA Climate Change Adaptation mainstream services and products Climate risk reduction Action Actor who is responsible for are accessible to, and useble by, CCR Owner carrying out the action. as many people as reasonably DRM Disaster Risk Management Implement- Organisations or departments possible, without the need to be ation with a key role in delivering the adapted or specialised. GHG Green House Gas Emissions Partner action. These could be municipal Monitoring – A systematic process of tracking emissions departments, private-sector project implementation, with a stakeholders, or academic and focus on activities and outputs, IFI International Finance Institution community organisations. in order to promote learning and ITM Intelligent Transport Management Action Plan A working document, used course correction, as needed. It helps answer the question: Are we in strategy implementation, MHEWS Multi Hazard Early Warning System which outlines a timeline of key doing what we set out to do? communications and initiative Preliminary A document that establishes an TOD Transit Orientated Development targets and deadlines, Project Resilience initial, qualitative understanding of Charters and actions for Assessment the city’s strengths and weaknesses institutionalization. against the City Resilience Asset The physical, economic, social, Framework built and natural resources that Resilience The capacity of individuals, contribute to a city’s resilience. communities, institutions, City Comprising four dimensions and 12 businesses and systems within a Resilience drivers that together illustrate what city to survive, adapt and thrive Framework makes a city resilient, the CRF is no matter what kinds of chronic (CRF) used by cities in the 100RC network stresses or acute shocks they to help them understand the encounter. complex and overlapping systems Resilience A tactical roadmap to build that contribute to their resilience. Strategy resilience in the city. The Strategy Developed by Arup with support articulates the city’s resilience from the Rockefeller Foundation. priorities and specific initiatives for short-, medium- and long-term implementation. Resilience Multiple cross-cutting resilience Chief Advisor that reports directly to Value or benefits of an initiative that result Resilience the city mayor. Their task is to Outcome from integrated, inclusive and risk- Officer establish a compelling resilience aware decision making. (CRO) vision for his or her city, working across departments and with the Risk The severity and likelihood of a local community to maximize shock or stress occurring innovation and minimize the impact of unforeseen events.

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