Strengthening climate resilience in African cities – A framework for working with informality

The report provides a guide for city practitioners to build climate resilience in African cities, specifically focusing on the challenges of informality and inequality. It proposes an eight-step process for climate compatible development that integrates climate dynamics with socioeconomic and political dimensions, ranging from developing a vision and mapping linkages to the informal sector to assessing vulnerabilities and tracking progress.

• The report proposes an eight-step process for undertaking climate compatible development in African cities that integrates climate dynamics with socioeconomic, spatial, and political dimensions. These steps include developing a vision for city futures, mapping climate-sensitive linkages to the informal sector, assessing current vulnerabilities with slum dwellers, using climate projections for future vulnerability, identifying adaptation options, assessing mitigation co-benefits, prioritising implementation, and establishing tracking and learning mechanisms.

APA

Taylor, A., & Peter, C. (2014). Strengthening climate resilience in African cities – A framework for working with informality. Climate and Development Knowledge Network. https://cdkn.org/resource/report-strengthening-climate-resilience-african-cities-framework-working-informality

Chicago

Taylor, Anna, and Camaren Peter. Strengthening climate resilience in African cities – A framework for working with informality. Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014. https://cdkn.org/resource/report-strengthening-climate-resilience-african-cities-framework-working-informality.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{taylor2014strengthening, author = {Taylor, Anna and Peter, Camaren}, title = {{Strengthening climate resilience in African cities – A framework for working with informality}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2014}, month = oct, url = {https://cdkn.org/resource/report-strengthening-climate-resilience-african-cities-framework-working-informality}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }