responding to the 100 resilient cities challenge from participation to collaboration in porto alegre...
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Responding to the 100 Resilient Cities Challenge
From participation to collaboration in Porto Alegre
Arch. MSc. Patrick FontesDeputy Chief Resilience Officer
City of Porto Alegre
City of Porto Alegre
• Birth of Participatory Budgeting• 1st World Social Forum• IDHM 0,805• Gini index 0,60
Challenge
Challenge
To help complex urban systems organize around resilience
To scale market solutions efficiently
1. Funding to hire a Chief Resilience
Officer (CRO)
2. Support to develop a City
Resilience Strategy
3. A Platform of Services to support
strategy implamentation
4. A Membership in the 100RC Network
100RC provides Member cities with 4 types of support
Challenge
Porto Alegre
100RC Network
Resilience Strategy objectives
• A structured activity resulting in an actionable set of initiatives that will build city’s resilience and signal the market
• A process to engage a broad and diverse range of city stakeholders
• A holistic preliminary assessment of a city’s resilience, followed by a deep diagnostic on particular focus areas
• A deliberate objective to leverage existing plans, actions, and programs
• A process that establishes the ongoing practice of resilience and helps define the role of the CRO in the city
• A process that leverages global strategy partners and produces similar outputs to aggregate
Barriers to overcome
• Silos working approach• Government responsibility• Rigid mechanisms of participation• New problems need new solutions
Complex barriers to overcome
Go beyond participation where people only bring problems to the table and start to collaborate to build solutions together.
Make the right question:
What we can do better together that we struggle to do alone?
Strategy adopted
Empower
Collaborate
Involve
Consult
Inform
Level up the engagement
Strategy adopted
• Use of structures already in place instead of building everything from zero
• Let stakeholders decide what level of engagement they want
• Face-to-face conversation• Multidisciplinary approach
Qualities that made it possible
• Leadership (CRO Figure) and Mayor commitment
Qualities that made it possible
• Coordinating group shared with NGO, university and local government.
Qualities that made it possible
• Decentralization– 17 sub local networks of resilience– Working group of government departments– Multidisciplinary steering committee– Self steering working groups for each project priority
Results
Universities4%
Government31%
Media1%
Private sector23%
Civil society20%
Social movements
and NGO21%
Stakeholders types
2º WorkshopProcess validated by 120 participants from different areas.
VIDEO
It wouldn’t be possible without
• Celulose Riograndense• Accenture• 100 Resilient Cities and Rockefeller Foundation• NGO CiuPOA• Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul• Porto Alegre City Hall
