Cities Alliance forms new resilience partnership

Seventeen international development partners have come together within a Cities Alliance Joint Work Programme on Resilient Cities to highlight and address the relationship between resilience and poverty in cities. 

The programme will partner with the Medellin Collaboration on Urban Resilience (MCUR) under an action-orientated commitment to support 500 cities strengthen the resilience of their informal communities by 2020.

“Most organisations working on resilience come from one side of the discourse or another, such as environment or, in the case of the Cities Alliance, slum upgrading and urban poverty reduction,” said William Cobbett, Director of Cities Alliance. “This Joint Work Programme...