This article is co-written with Amit Prothi, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Global Network of Resilient Cities.
While the devastating effect of Covid-19 is still here in India and elsewhere, it is no exaggeration to say that it has fundamentally replaced the way we start thinking about urban systems and resilience. The cities were hardest hit by Covid-19. According to the Federal Health Ministry, india, eight states contributed nearly 80% of active cases and cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Pune suffered the brunt of the pandemic.
The fact that more than one part of the international population lives in cities has exacerbated the challenge of managing the Covid-19 challenge.
The scale of this pandemic is unforeseen and, combined with the dangers of herb errors, such as the two recent cyclones in India, underscores the need for cities to be more prepared. Add to that the demands of 3 convergent trends (climate change, urbanization and globalization) and the tension they exert on our existing urban systems, and the tension they are exerting on our existing urban systems we face.
The role of the RCMPN and the Rockefeller Foundation in supporting resilience
Adversity has been and will remain a truth of life. The question is: what does it take to recover? To find a lasting response to this study arrangement over the past decade, the Rockefeller Foundation has been supporting urban resilience in India and around the world. The Global Network of Resilient Cities (GRCN), funded through the Foundation, has worked intensively with Indian cities such as Surat, Pune and Chennai to advise policies and urban resilience movements on progression paradigms.
NFN has been working heavily with the Housing and Urban Affairs Decomposer since 2018 and university networks across India to transplant classes on the resilience of global cities that address dangers as a component of their progression plans.
Teachings of Covid-19
Today, the pandemic gave us the opportunity to rethink the tensions and gaps inherent in urban systems, which exacerbated the covid-19 effect. With regard to India and the rest of the world, here are three classes that can help cities move towards a long-term resilient recovery.
The first is to strengthen the role of generation in governance and urban planning, and to strengthen access to virtual resources. During the existing crisis, spatial mapping and the covid-19 instance dynamic replacement research team have been a vital tool for governments to identify and act in high-risk areas. This has been exploited with wonderful fortune in the Indian city of Pune, where they have been used to track, control and isolate people, which has taken a step forward in crisis control. Also globally, Buenos Aires provides a smart example of how the generation has been intelligently leveraged in the school space, in the context of Covid-19. Teacher schooling and virtual access to schoolchildren have ensured a smooth transition to an online schooling mode and minimal disruption due to the pandemic.
The time is to improve collaboration and coordination between governmental and non-governmental actors. The spirit of volunteering and collaboration came to highlight the pandemic here in India. But he wants direction and cohesion. In cities, the number of volunteers who have taken the initiative to provide aid where governments simply cannot, is the cutting-edge help that will need to be grouped and controlled so that on the occasion of a crisis, there is greater coordination between the government. , non-governmental actors and volunteers to stand up. combined with their challenges. London has demonstrated this effectively through the London Resilience Partnership, an established network of more than 200 partners, which adds governments, companies, fitness service providers, public facilities and volunteers to coordinate emergency responses to Covid-19.
The third step towards greater resilience is existing urban systems. The pandemic has not only exposed the inadequacy of our existing capabilities, but also our unpreparedness to face a scenario of the kind the world is experiencing today. This is a serious vacuum to make plans and desires to deal with it. For more than five years, NFN has worked with cities to recognize systemic tensions in urban systems and expand projects that address these challenges. Quito in Ecuador, for example, has identified the need for food security and has been working to fill the holes for several years. During the pandemic, urban farms and food banks helped feed more than 100,000 vulnerable people across the city.
This pandemic will be a watershed moment in how we deal with the mistakes caused by herbs and man in the future. And there are classes to be informed of everyone around us. It is the best time for all of us to come together to be informed of successes and play our part in drawing up plans for the next era of resilient cities around the world.
I am the Executive Director of the Rockefeller Foundation in Asia, where I lead projects to convene and catalyze strategic collaborations that advance