Resilience Strategy
We want to ensure that Cape Town becomes stronger and better prepared for future challenges. The City’s first ever
Resilience Strategy helps improve the way we prepare for and respond to these challenges.
About the strategy
Being a resilient city ensures that Cape Town is able to survive and thrive in the event of possible challenges. The City adopts an approach to resilience that acknowledges Cape Town’s interdependence on systems in other parts of the country and the rest of the world. This allows us to better prepare for risks and understand how stresses impact on the ability of the city to thrive in moments of shock.
Quick stat
Resilience is the ability for individuals, communities, institutions, businesses and systems in a city to survive, adapt and thrive, no matter the kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience.
Different types of disruptions
Fast fact
As of 2020, approximately 85 cities in the world have resilience strategies. In August 2019, Cape Town became the third city in Africa to approve a resilience strategy.
The Resilience Strategy includes five pillars, 20 goals and 75 actions. Some of these already exist, others are new and some have been piloted.
Read the Resillience Strategy
The five pillars
The five pillars of the Resilience Strategy are as follows:
Everyone, including government, businesses, community-based organisations and residents can contribute to building resilience in Cape Town.
Encourage your organisation or community to do the following:
- clarify your role in helping build Cape Town’s resilience;
- develop an action plan for your organisation and adopt some or all of the above pillars;
- engage with other people in the city who are most impacted by your actions;
- investigate and understand how shocks and stresses create based risks for your community or organisation;
- take part in training to help build capacity
- undertake actions and investment to strengthen resilience
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