100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge Overview

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100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge Overview

As shocks and stresses grow in frequency, impact and scale, with the ability to ripple across systems and geographies, cities are largely unprepared to respond to, withstand, and bounce back from disasters. With more than 75 percent of people expected to live in cities by 2050, public and private sector leaders are expressing an increasing desire to build greater resilience, yet many have neither the technical expertise nor the financial resources to create and execute resilience strategies on a city-wide scale, in a way that addresses the need of poor or vulnerable people.

To enable cities to better absorb the shocks of our world, and quickly spring back after a blow, The Rockefeller Foundation is making a $100 million commitment to building urban resilience in cities around the world. Through the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge, 100 cities from across the globe will be selected to receive technical support and resources for developing and implementing plans that will build greater urban resilience.

Awards
Timeline
Eligibility
Criteria

Awards

Selected cities will receive:

1. Membership in the 100 Resilient Cities Network, which will provide support to member cities and share new knowledge and resilience best practices.
2. Support to hire or fund a Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) to oversee the development of a resilience strategy for the city and be part of a learning network of other CROs.
3. Support to create a resilience plan, along with tools and resources for implementation.

Given the diverse needs of the selected cities, The Rockefeller Foundation and its partners cannot guarantee funding for the development and implementation of selected cities’ entire resilience plans. There may be additional tools and resources that cities choose to fund themselves, either directly or by securing other funding.

Timeline

Registration Deadline: September 23, 2013
Application Deadline: October 14, 2013
Selected Cities Announcement: December 3, 2013

Eligibility

The 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge website and application form will include the following eligibility terms—upon approval by The Rockefeller Foundation:
Challenge applicants may include municipal governments or major institutions (e.g., a nonprofit organization, university, chamber of commerce, or research center) that have a predominant affiliation/association with the city and demonstrate collaborative partnership with a municipal government. Strong preference will be given to municipal government applicants, unless circumstances do not allow for a city to represent itself. All applicants will be required to submit a letter of support from the senior-most representative of the city government, whether elected or appointed. Only one application from each city will be eligible for consideration in the challenge. To be eligible for consideration, each applicant must agree to any and all official rules of the challenge.

For the purposes of this challenge, a city will be defined by a population with over 50,000 inhabitants with a municipal government, or other elected or appointed chief executive office uniquely assigned to govern that population. Applications representing regional or metropolitan areas are permissible, but one municipal government must serve as the lead organization in the challenge application process.

• Submit an application form with all required fields completed through the challenge website at challenge.100resilientcities.org or by email to ***@***.*** cities.org.
• Be willing to provide material and references in support of their application should they be requested by The Rockefeller Foundation or its partners in operating the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge.
• Each selected city must commit to developing or implementing a city-wide resilience plan as part of their participation in the 100 Resilient Cities Network.
• If selected, the applicant must agree to work with The Rockefeller Foundation's partners to establish the suite of financial and technical assistance support to develop and implement the resilience plan, become an integrated member of the 100 Resilient Cities Network, and create or expand the role of a Chief Resilience Officer within the municipal government. All selected cities receiving grant money must use the financial resources in accordance with the suite of support determined in conjunction with The Rockefeller Foundation’s partners and must collaborate to play an active role in the network.
• If an application is selected, the awardee must agree to comply with all official rules of the challenge as well as all applicable laws.
• Applicants must be available for contact by email or telephone at any point in the evaluation process, and available (if requested) for a site visit by The Rockefeller Foundation or its partners.
• Submit the application in English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish.
• Complete the eligibility registration by September 23, 2013, by 23:59:59 GMT.
• Complete the application form and submit or send it before the deadline of October 14, 2013, by 23:59:59 GMT.

Criteria

The selected cities of the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge will meet the following basic criteria:

• The application will have come from a representative of the city’s government or an institution that is working in concert with the city’s local government.
• A view of resilience that is resonant with The Rockefeller Foundation’s definition
• An articulation of the city’s greatest vulnerabilities as the catalyst for the city to build its resilience
• The desire to treat resilience-building comprehensively (building resilience in more than one realm of vulnerability), indicating which realms of vulnerability would be addressed
• The desire to treat the city’s approach to resilience-building comprehensively, through multi-sector partnerships including multiple government agencies, the private sector and civil society
• An approach to ensuring that the development of a city-wide resilience plan will include the engagement and voice of their city’s poor and vulnerable residents
• A resilience plan that explicitly benefits the city’s poor and vulnerable residents
• The applicant will have successfully cleared the challenge due diligence process.
• The applicant will meet all legal requirements.
• Garner high scores, ten being the top score using the scoring system below, from an independent panel of judges in the following areas:
  
  • Resilience (4)
  • Impact (3)
  • Viability (2)
  • Network (1)