Resilient Settlements for the Urban Poor (RISE UP)

UN Habitat: 2024 - Present

Resilient Settlements for the Urban Poor (RISE UP) is UN-HABITAT's flagship programme which seeks to leverage large scale investment to build resilience and increase the socio-economic prospects of the urban poor across global hotspots of vulnerability.

Adapt40 is working with UN-HABITAT on Accelerating the Implementation of the Paris Agreement by Building the Climate Resilience of the Urban Poor in Bolivia, Colombia, Ethiopia, Jordan, and Tunisia, a new project within the RISE UP programme, supported by AECID. The project aims to identify multilayered and interconnected climate, urban, spatial, socio-economic and biodiversity risks and vulnerabilities of the world's most vulnerable communities in secondary and tertiary cities.

The Adapt40 team are managing the project and providing the technical oversight and inputs into the vulnerability assessments, supporting UN country teams, local governments and stakeholders to identify hotspots of multi-layered vulnerabilities. The team will support with the identification of data sets, data collection, GIS and delivery of the vulnerability assessments as well as the identification of adaptation measures and resilience building actions and enable local stakeholders to prioritise actions with the greatest potential for vulnerability reduction. The team is also delivering tailored capacity building to each country.