Challenge

Regions across the United States are facing complex economic, social, and environmental challenges, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Historically marginalized and underinvested communities experience the most severe impacts from unprecedented climate events due to long-standing inequities. Thus, Resilient Cities Catalyst (RCC) developed Regional Resilience Partnerships to incorporate collaboration across multiple sectors and at different scales.

Opportunity

The Regional Resilience Partnerships program is a multi-sector effort organized across a state or region to implement high-impact projects that tackle urgent challenges beyond the municipal scale. Regional approaches to resilience are essential because economic vitality and climate challenges do not adhere to politically determined boundaries and necessitate coordinated action to effectively manage shared risks. Taking a region approach can enable places to more effectively pool financial resources, leverage economies of scale for infrastructure, share expertise, and ultimately create a stronger, unified approach to improving policy and practice to advance resilience implementation.

Approach

Our flagship programs, the California Resilience Partnership (CRP), California Resilience Implementation Accelerator, and the Mediterranean Climate Action Partnership (MCAP) bring together multi-sector practitioners to increase investments and implementation of high impact projects that build resilience within regions and across the state.