Community of Practice on Resilient Housing

Housing, along with basic services – such as water supply, sanitation, power and allied social infrastructure facilities – is collectively termed as “habitat” and is increasingly at risk due to intensifying climate-induced and geological hazards. In most major disasters, housing remains one of the most affected sectors. CDRI’s GIRI data platform estimates the Average Annual Loss (AAL) including potential future climate impacts and the estimated risk to buildings, including housing, schools and hospitals due to climate and geohazards to be up to US$ 431 billion globally (CDRI, 2023).

This Community of Practice will explore how climate and disaster resilience can be achieved in both formal and informal housing settlements and will unpack the challenges and innovations related to financing, technology, community participation, governance, and traditional knowledge. It will also provide CDRI an opportunity to further understand the needs, challenges and opportunities for building resilience of the housing sector and collect insights to enrich its support to member countries in building resilience of housing – including the development of new assets, retrofitting, and post-disaster recovery.

This CoP will discuss and produce a knowledge piece which will enrich further discussions to achieve resilience of housing globally.

CDRI (2023). Global Infrastructure Resilience: Capturing the Resilience Dividend - A Biennial Report from the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, New Delhi.