Ensuring resilient urban services: The Rio de Janeiro's experience

Urban violence is affecting many cities worldwide, thereby disrupting the provision of essential services for affected communities. Armed violence causes schools and health clinics or other core public service facilities to shut down. The event will showcase how the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, has managed to enhance urban resilience by ensuring access to its essential services, in close collaboration with the ICRC, through the Safer Access for Essential Services Program. The event aims to highlight this methodology which has been developed to reduce, mitigate and respond to the consequences of exposure to armed violence settings. It will also underline the role that cities play in federating actors to address a common challenge and how local solutions can be scaled up to enhance urban resilience and help achieve the objectives of the New Urban Agenda and the SDGs. The hope is that Rio de Janeiro’s good experience could be replicated in other cities which face similar challenges.