100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) started out as a network of 100 global cities integrating resilience thinking in their development efforts.
In December 2014, Chennai joined the 100RC initiative. As a member city, Chennai received the financial and logistical support to establish an innovative new position, a Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), to lead the city’s resilience efforts in collaboration with the city government, citizens and various other stakeholder groups.
Resilient Chennai was granted expert support to establish a robust Resilience Strategy; access to solutions, service providers and partners from across public, private and non-profit sectors; and membership to a global network of member cities to learn from and collaborate.
In July 2017, R Krishna Mohan was appointed as Chennai’s Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) and led Chennai in the strategy phase of its resilience journey which involved engaging stakeholders and understanding the city’s resilience related strengths and challenges to frame actions to build city resilience to existing and future shocks and stresses.
Chennai’s Resilience Strategy, developed with strategy partners Okapi Advisory, was released by the Greater Chennai Corporation in June 2019.
Early in 2020, 100RC was reborn as the Global Resilient Cities Network (GRCN), and together with the Adrienne Arsht – Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Centre (AARFRC), helped fund and institutionalize the Chennai Resilience Centre as a unit of the Centre for Urbanization, Building and Environment (CUBE), a centre of excellence established through a collaboration of the Government of Tamil Nadu and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM).
The Chennai Resilience Centre’s mandate is to research, develop and implement resilience building projects for the city of Chennai.
Centre for Urbanization, Building & Environment Partners with Adrienne Arsht – Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
/in News, Press /by Chennai Resilience CentreThe Adrienne Arsht – Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center (AARFRC) has engaged the Centre for Urbanization, Building & Environment (CUBE) to help pursue AARFRC’s objective of providing resilience solutions to one billion people by 2030, by building resilience in the people of Chennai, with awareness of the current urbanization challenges, such as Urban Heat, Water Conservation, […]