Summary

In response to the significant challenges faced by middle-income cities in improving resilience and protecting vulnerable populations from shocks and stresses, resilience is one of the key pillars of the FCO Prosperity Fund’s Global Future Cities Programme. This paper seeks to frame and inform key areas of urban resilience policy, based on economic research, cross country evidence, and on initial learnings from the Strategic Development Phase of the Programme. In this way, it seeks to provide an evidence base for future decision making in urban resilience.

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