Contact details of the CRO Team Dr Debra Roberts Mrs Jo Douwes Mrs Manisha Hassan Chief Resilience Officer Deputy Chief Resilience Officer Second Deputy Chief Resilience Officer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Resilience Strategy 2017 Approved by eThekwini Municipality Council www.durban.gov.za/100RC LAUNCH OF 100 RESILIENT CITIES DURBAN'S 100 RESILIENT CITIES PROGRAMME PROGRAMME 2013 PHASE 1 • 2013 2015 PHASE 2 • 2016 2017 START POINT RESILIENCE ISSUES AND FOCUS AREAS SYSTEMS ANALYSIS RESILIENCE BUILDING OPTIONS RBOs FINALISING THE RESILIENCE STRATEGY RESILIENCE ISSUES RESILIENCE FOCUS AREAS LEADERSHIP COLLABORATIVE INFORMAL BOLD AND PARTICIPATORY DURBAN'S STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT SETTLEMENT ACTION GOVERNANCE RESILIENCE GOVERNING SYSTEMS LEVERS FOR CHANGE RESILIENCE STRATEGY OUTCOMES STRATEGY INNOVATION 6 EThekwini Municipality has a committed team of champions that are EThekwini Municipality has enabling and integrated administrative INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE-CENTRED supported by co-ordinating institutional structures to ensure systems and simplified regulatory procedures that facilitate the CITY collaborative informal settlement action. accelerated implementation of municipal-wide, collaborative informal DURBAN’S RESILIENCE settlement upgrading and partnerships. EDUCATION & CAPACITY BUILDING 1 Strengthen local communities RBO 1 Consolidated quantitative and qualitative community and STRATEGY IS DIVIDED and build social cohesion municipal-collected data, information and knowledge on all informal Collaborative monitoring and evaluation of informal settlement INTO FOUR SECTIONS: AFRICAN URBANISM SYSTEMS settlements in Durban is accessible to all and updated regularly. upgrading interventions is institutionalized in eThekwini Municipality. Improve effectiveness of education EThekwini Municipality facilitates the establishment of proactive, innovative SERVICES & INFRASTRUCTURE The use of land for informal settlements is proactively managed in Durban. 2 and skills development and municipal-wide partnerships to develop and execute collaborative, ANALYSIS climate-smart and sustainable informal settlement upgrading. INNOVATIVE All informal settlements in Durban exhibit improved social, economic SPATIAL PLANNING Resilience Building Option 1: Collaborative PLACE-MAKING EThekwini Municipality secures the human and financial resources and environmental well-being, which in turn enhances Durban’s 1 OF THE 6 Promote economic growth in line with informal settlement action. required to undertake collaborative, municipal-wide informal resilience. ARTS & CULTURE 3 21st century trends and opportunities RESILIENCE settlement upgrading. HEALTH FOCUS AREAS Resilience Building Option 2: Integrated and SUSTAINABLE AND Manage environmental assets 2 innovative planning at the interface between ENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENT ECOLOGICAL CITY 4 more effectively municipal and traditional governance systems. INTEGRATED AND INNOVATIVE PLANNING AT ECONOMY CATALYTIC AND Create a more inclusive and Exploring potential ‘bridging links’ which TRANSFORMATIVE ECONOMY 5 integrated spatial plan THE INTERFACE BETWEEN MUNICIPAL AND 3 focus on additional considerations for SOCIAL COHESION TRADITIONAL GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS further expansion of the resilience work. INEQUALITY Improve municipal effectiveness RBO 2 EQUITABLE AND 6 RESILIENCE STRATEGY OUTCOMES Institutionalising resilience in GENDER 4 INCLUSIVE SOCIETY eThekwini Municipality. SOCIETAL VALUES Secure institutional support for the process of integrating planning between municipal and traditional governance systems. Prior to the application to 100RC, the Durban Team convened a CRIME AND SAFETY number of local government technical departments to secure Consultation process in April 2016 with support for Durban’s potential The Durban Team engaged a broad range of Durban stakeholders, which included a cross-sectoral Municipal Technical Consultation process in January Consultation and Feedback process in Consultation process in June Consultation process in Consultation process in September Consultation process in November Consultation process in January 2017 Consultation process in Feburary Consultation process in Feburary 2017 Consultation process in March and critical thinkers, cross-sectoral Municipal Technical participation in 100RC. This process Team, city and political leadership, a group of ‘critical thinkers’ from within and outside the Municipality as well as a 2016 with the Municipal Technical Team, March 2016 with the Municipal Technical 2016 with the public to share June 2016 with a 2016 with a cross-section of 2016 with the Municipal Technical with a Multi-Stakeholder Working Group 2017 with the Reference Group for RBO with the Reference Group for RBO 1 and cross April 2017 with the Municipal Technical Team and the Environmental sectors to share also helped to build administrative range of stakeholders such as tertiary institutions, NGOs, business and members of the public to ensure that the City Planning Commission, and the Team, City Planning Commission and the public final outcomes of the systems cross-section of stakeholders stakeholders to confirm the issues and Team to refine the outcomes and and the public to refine the outcomes and 1 and the public to finalise outcomes sectoral stakeholders to apply the Human Team, public, city and political leadership on outcomes of the systems analysis and to identify support for 100RC in Durban. resilience strategy development process was representative of the challenges facing Durban. public for the systems analysis process. on the systems analysis “levers for change.” analysis and to confirm the RBOs. to explore the RBOs. to identify interventions for the RBOs. interventions for the RBOs. interventions for the RBOs. and interventions for the RBOs. Benefit Analysis to outcomes for RBO 1. Durban's draft Resilience Strategy. the RBOs. DURBAN TIMELINE 25 MONTHS 19 MONTHS 100RC TIMELINE 2 3 MONTHS 6 8 MONTHS DECEMBER 2013 DECEMBER 2013 DECEMBER 2015 JANUARY 2016 APRIL 2016 JUNE SEPTEMBER 2016 MARCH MAY 2017 Durban was selected as one Understanding resilience in Durban: Durban’s resilience Undertaking a systems analysis of the resilience focus areas: Phase 2 began with a ‘Systems Analysis’ of the resilience focus areas Understanding the Resilience Building Options in Durban: In order to explore and understand these RBOs more comprehensively, a series of conversations with a cross-section of stakeholders Finalising Durban's Resilience Strategy: Durban's draft Resilience of the first 32 cities to be journey began with a scoping phase in 2014 to understand some of to identify systemic intervention points that could have catalytic impact across multiple resilience focus areas. Six cross-cutting resilience was convened to understand the key actors and issues for each of the RBOs and to understand potential intervention points for each. The outcome of this work was the development of an actor map for Strategy was presented to the Municipal Technical Team, Strategic included in the Rockefeller the key resilience challenges in Durban. Eighteen resilience issues “levers for change” were identified: Lever 1: Strengthen local communities and build social cohesion; Lever 2: Improve effectiveness of each of the RBOs, a narrative capturing the key issues relating to the RBOs, and possible interventions for each. Management Executive Team, political leadership and members of the public Foundation’s international were identified. Given the interconnectedness of the resilience education and skills development; Lever 3: Promote economic growth in line with 21st century trends and opportunities; Lever 4: Manage in order to gather feedback on the outcomes and interventions proposed, 100 Resilient Cities issues, it was decided that all eighteen resilience issues, grouped environmental assets more effectively; Lever 5: Create a more inclusive and integrated spatial plan; and Lever 6: Improve municipal OCTOBER 2016 MARCH 2017 before Durban’s Resilience Strategy was finalised and approved by full Programme. into six focus areas, would be taken forward into the next phase of effectiveness. Refining the proposed interventions for the Resilience Building Options: The preliminary outcomes and interventions for each of the RBOs were consolidated and refined through further local Council. the strategy development process. The resilience focus areas were: government and multi-stakeholder engagement. Climate change was also considered in the framing of interventions. Public meetings were held to confirm the outcomes and interventions and a Bold and Participatory Governance, Knowledge-centred City, APRIL 2016 JUNE 2016 multi-stakeholder Reference Group was established to work with the 100RC team to finalise the RBO 1 outcomes and interventions for Durban’s Resilience Strategy. In a parallel workstream, a Human Innovative Place-making, Sustainable and Ecological City, Catalytic Identifying Resilience Building Options for Durban: Given the breadth of the ‘levers for change’ stakeholders were asked to identify more Benefit Analysis methodology was developed to assess the human benefit of the RBO outcomes and interventions. and Transformative Economy, and Equitable and Inclusive Society. specific ‘resilience building options’ (RBOs) that could address multiple levers simultaneously, be transformative in their impact and be practically Phase 1 of 100RC culminated in the development of Durban’s implemented. Two priority resilience building options were