About Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF)
The Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund is a $150 million multi-donor trust fund (2013-2021) administered by the Asian Development Bank under the Urban Financing Partnership Facility. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Governments of Switzerland and the United Kingdom, it aims to support fast-growing cities in Asia to reduce the risks poor and vulnerable people face from floods, storms or droughts, by helping to better plan and design infrastructure to invest against these impacts.

About BRUC/TA 9329
BRUC/TA 9329 is about promoting community leadership in urban resilience planning and action. The goal of the project is to pilot and learn from community-led urban resilience projects implemented in 8 cities in Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Philippines and to promote more investment in community-led projects by municipalities, the ADB and other donors.

About the Community-Led Approach
There is increasing recognition that resilience planning must make a shift so that it is led by the local communities that are most impacted by climate change. The 7th Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum held in 2021 proposed that ‘a new paradigm is needed in which local communities are in the driver’s seat, access to finance, information, technologies, new practices and capacity building support is made easier, and traditional knowledge is valued much more.

What is core to community-led urban resilience is that local communities are central – not as victims of disasters or beneficiaries of aid but as decision-makers, right-holders, and leaders throughout the planning, implementation, learning, monitoring and evaluation process.

About the Community-Led Projects
All CLPs combine infrastructure (hard) and social an institutional development (soft) measures. Soft measures include social inclusion, gender justice mainstreaming, women’s economic empowerment, new green livelihood development, capacity development and sustainability planning.