RESURGENCE URBAN RESILIENCE IMPACT LTD

Company description

Resurgence is a global design, communications and consulting company that specialises in urban climate risk and resilience. We have award-winning expertise in helping governments, city authorities, urban planners, responders and communities to reduce the effects of climate hazards and high impact weather events such as flooding, storm and heatwaves.  Our solutions include co-designing inclusive early warning systems with city & community stakeholders and support governments & cities to develop the data infrastructure to manage and reduce climate risk. Our flagship DARAJA service is supported by the Met Office-led Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa (WISER) Programme of UK FCDO (UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office). DARAJA aims to improve the climate resilience of vulnerable populations living in informal settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya by building bridges between communities and weather and climate information providers. Resurgence clients and partners include: The Met Office, the UK’s national meteorological service, the World Bank HydroMet Division, the Red Cross Climate Centre, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and AECOM. It is a partner of Europe’s largest public - private climate systems innovation partnership, the EIT Climate-KIC.

Expertise

International

India, Jamaica, Jordan, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda

RESURGENCE URBAN RESILIENCE IMPACT LTD case studies

African weather and climate services - DARAJA

DARAJA aimed to improve the climate resilience of 20% of urban informal settlement residents in Tanzania and Kenya, amounting to approximately 800,000 people.

Case study