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4 For Communities: Actions for Building and Measuring Community Resilience
4 For Communities: Actions for Building and Measuring Community Resilience
Pages 59-70
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Finding 4.3 Financial tools can support resilience building and measurement. Finding 4.4 Measuring multiple benefits of community resilience investments can be connected to existing financial and insurance structures because they require and incentivize quantitative measures of resilience.
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. Some of the major functions of the community engagement process are to set resilience goals, prioritize those goals, and identify community leaders to champion resilience and implement actions aimed at meeting those goals.
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Leadership An important element of community engagement and buy-in is to identify community leaders who will champion resilience, implement resilience goals, and coordinate resilience measurement. The Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities initiative, for example, places strong emphasis on leadership.
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. Whether the leader is formally selected as a chief resilience officer or a similar position, communities can designate resilience leaders from within to implement measurement efforts, including tracking and monitoring community resilience progress.
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For example, in New Orleans, the city's Department of Health partnered with Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine's Disaster Management Program to strengthen its disaster response workforce capacity, hire competent leaders specialized in disaster management, strengthen the implementation of the city's special needs registry, and advance its disaster communication enterprise. Community leaders and the literature extol the value and import of multidimensional approaches to community resilience, but they acknowledge that measuring or collecting data across multiple dimensions is daunting.
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LINK COMMUNITY RESILIENCE MEASURES TO DECISION MAKING Information about resilience capacities and capabilities should inform policy formulation and implementation and choices about public sector budgets and public-private financing. Most local governments conduct community assessments to inform local decision-making; the challenge is to more fully embed resilience measurement in that process.
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Valuation models, such as the Resilience Dividend Valuation Model framework, account for iterative steps, involve adaptive interventions, show potential for long-term evaluation or measurement, and demonstrate ways to link data with decision making. Finding 4.2.
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Some communities are beginning to use novel approaches to incentivize resilience investments or demonstrate multiple benefits from resilience actions. Risk reduction can be financed for resilience building, pre- or post-disaster.
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The largest type of green bonds support projects designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit repercussions from climate change (CSG and MCBE, 2016; World Economic Forum, 2013)
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Finding 4.4. Measuring multiple benefits of community resilience investments can be connected to existing financial and insurance structures because they require and incentivize quantitative measures of resilience.
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Rather, resilience building is a process that requires periodic measurement to assess progress toward resilience goals and ensure those goals are being met. This chapter presented four key actions that are needed for community resilience designs to result in measurable, achievable results.
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Another is to position community decision makers alongside researchers in longitudinal research efforts that integrate research, data collection and assessment, and decision making with community resilience goals and priorities. Specific recommendations for the Gulf Research Program to fill the knowledge-to-action gap are outlined in Chapter 5.
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