The Regional Resilience Partnerships program is a multi-sector effort organized across a state or region to implement high-impact projects that tackle urgent challenges beyond the municipal scale.
The Urgency
Regions across the United States are facing complex economic, social, and environmental challenges, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Historically marginalized and underinvested communities experience the most severe impacts from unprecedented climate events due to long-standing inequities. Thus, Resilient Cities Catalyst (RCC) developed Regional Resilience Partnerships to incorporate collaboration across multiple sectors and at different scales.
The Regions
Our flagship program, the California Resilience Partnership (CRP) brings together multi-sector practitioners to increase investments in a pipeline of high impact projects that will build a more resilient and equitable state.
Building on work in our first three regions–greater Los Angeles, greater San Diego, and greater Sacramento–CRP will soon expand to other regions statewide, bringing resources for local nonprofit and government partners to support project development–offering technical assistance, crowding in global best practices, and fostering collaborative knowledge exchange.
Read more about the California Resilience Partnership.
Greater Los Angeles and Ventura Counties | Wildfire
The Resilient Cities Catalyst team has worked with local partners to surface and pilot innovative solutions to fire and urban heat in the greater Los Angeles region since early 2019. Emerging in the wake of the 2018 Woolsey Fire, this effort aims to strengthen the region’s preparedness for wildfire and extreme heat as well as other climate threats through coordinated efforts at the regional scale. RCC worked with local partners to identify replicable, bold ideas driven by both local governments and non-profit organizations that would strengthen critical capacities for absorbing, adapting, and even transforming in the face of current and future climate driven shocks.
Greater San Diego | Coastal Erosion
RCC and The San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative (SDRCC) convened global experts, along with key leaders in the region representing diverse community stakeholders, for the San Diego Region Coastal Exchange, a sequence of virtual immersive convenings and small group working sessions, in July 2020 to explore innovative approaches to address coastal erosion. Over the course of these sessions, participants gathered virtually to explore innovative design options that address coastal resilience challenges, and surfaced a set of viable projects and policies. These four approaches are now in stages of design and implementation.
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