resilience-lessons-learnt-1-20a377b8f8cf6c6a.pdf

This case study by GreenCape details the lessons learned from the first resilience analysis of the City of Cape Town's capital infrastructure portfolio. Supported by UK Pact in early 2022, the project aimed to understand how capital investments impact climate resilience by implementing a tagging mechanism in the City's SAP Project Portfolio Management system. The report identifies gaps in project tagging, the importance of a consolidated project database, and the need for increased awareness among project managers regarding how basic service delivery contributes to climate resilience.

• The City of Cape Town established a consolidated 10-year capital portfolio database containing 941 projects with a total estimated value of R69.5bn, which serves as the essential foundation for resilience and service delivery analysis.
• To manage the complexity of a multi-sector portfolio, the initial assessment simplified its scope to focus specifically on climate-related shocks rather than the broader list of 10 shocks and 12 stresses identified in the 2019 Resilience Strategy.
• The City identified several primary climate change hazards, including a decrease in annual average rainfall, sea-level rise, increased coastal erosion, and a higher frequency of heatwaves (defined as three or more days of 32+ °C).
• An analysis of departmental relevance shows that Water and Sanitation is the most relevant directorate for building resilience to climate shocks, followed by Urban Waste Management and Human Settlements, though the latter two often provide resilience as a secondary benefit of their primary mandates.
• There is a significant gap between actual resilience contributions and the tagging of projects in the SAP system; manual analysis revealed that approximately half of the total value of projects in the 3-year capital portfolio contributed to resilience, yet only about 1/3 of such projects were correctly tagged.
• The Human Settlements directorate was identified as the most 'under-tagged' department, indicating a lack of awareness that basic service delivery, such as formal housing, can mitigate climate shocks like fire and flooding.
• The City has developed a roadmap to mature its resilience portfolio from 2022 to 2025, moving from basic CAPEX and project counts toward risk-based prioritisation, the development of impact targets, and the incorporation of system-level interactions using the AMIA tool.

APA

GreenCape (n.d.). resilience-lessons-learnt-1-20a377b8f8cf6c6a.pdf. https://greencape.co.za/assets/Resilience-Lessons-Learnt-1.pdf

Chicago

GreenCape. resilience-lessons-learnt-1-20a377b8f8cf6c6a.pdf. n.d. https://greencape.co.za/assets/Resilience-Lessons-Learnt-1.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{greencapendresiliencelessonslearnt120a377b8f8cf6c6apdf, author = {{GreenCape}}, title = {{resilience-lessons-learnt-1-20a377b8f8cf6c6a.pdf}}, institution = {GreenCape}, url = {https://greencape.co.za/assets/Resilience-Lessons-Learnt-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }