Tarutium, formerly Taru, was Rockefeller Foundation’s India country partner for the “Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network,” a major climate change initiative that focuses on assessing climate-related risks in 40+ cities across four countries (India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam), and building climate change resilience to a changing, challenging urban environment.
The initiative aimed at catalyzing attention, funding, and action in three primary areas:
1. Experimenting with and testing local approaches to building climate change resilience for institutions and systems serving poor and vulnerable communities,
2. Promoting, demonstrating, and disseminating knowledge about these and other viable approaches,
3. Increasing awareness among funders, practitioners, policymakers, and businesses of the need to invest in building climate resilience.
The project was implemented in phases. In Phase I, Tarutium undertook the first country-wide assessment of climate change's impact on Indian cities. The report used various indicators of exposure to climate change to develop a preliminary ranking of relative risks across cities in India. The City Opportunity Assessment Report captured climate change risk analysis of six cities (Surat, Hubli-Dharwad, Kakinada, Gorakhpur, Jodhpur, and Indore) and studied impacts. In continuance to Phase-I of the ACCCRN, Tarutium was engaged to support and play a catalytic role in developing a City Climate Change Resilience Strategy (CRS) for two core cities, Indore and Surat (Phase II). We provided strategic support to Indore and Surat Municipal Corporation through the City Advisory Committee (CAC), which draws stakeholders comprising representatives from the Municipal Corporation, Development Authority, Private Sector, Academia, and Civil Society. Tarutium, in association with the city stakeholders, undertook an assessment of climate-related risks, in-depth vulnerability and risk assessment studies, provided technical and management support to the city stakeholders in undertaking sector studies (Water, Energy, Public Health, Environment, Green Buildings, Urban Transport, Flood Risk Management), supported development of technically sound project proposals for implementation under the ACCCRN (Pilot interventions to build resilience/ Implementation of Urban Resilience Projects); facilitated the development of CRS. Tarutium, in this phase, also promoted the exchange and sharing of knowledge through a well-developed networking strategy.
In Phase III, Tarutium supported ACCCRN and Urban Climate Change Resilience (UCCR) activities in new cities. Tarutium continues to support the development of high-potential intervention proposals identified as part of the CRS in Phase II and creates or finds opportunities for the local government to implement resilience activities.
As part of scaling resilience across Indian cities, Tarutium is focused on creating cooperation partners to implement urban climate change resilience (UCCR) activities.
Key Initiatives
• Cool Roof Ventilation in Indore & Surat
• Lake Conservation in Indore
• Early Warning System on Flood Management in Surat
• Mobile based Diseases Surveillance in Indore
• Urban Service Monitoring System (UrSms)
• Urban Health and Climate Resilience Centre.
As part of scaling resilience across Indian cities, Tarutium is focused on creating cooperation partners to implement urban climate change resilience (UCCR) activities.
The initiative aimed at catalyzing attention, funding, and action in three primary areas:
1. Experimenting with and testing local approaches to building climate change resilience for institutions and systems serving poor and vulnerable communities,
2. Promoting, demonstrating, and disseminating knowledge about these and other viable approaches,
3. Increasing awareness among funders, practitioners, policymakers, and businesses of the need to invest in building climate resilience.
The project was implemented in phases. In Phase I, Tarutium undertook the first country-wide assessment of climate change's impact on Indian cities. The report used various indicators of exposure to climate change to develop a preliminary ranking of relative risks across cities in India. The City Opportunity Assessment Report captured climate change risk analysis of six cities (Surat, Hubli-Dharwad, Kakinada, Gorakhpur, Jodhpur, and Indore) and studied impacts. In continuance to Phase-I of the ACCCRN, Tarutium was engaged to support and play a catalytic role in developing a City Climate Change Resilience Strategy (CRS) for two core cities, Indore and Surat (Phase II). We provided strategic support to Indore and Surat Municipal Corporation through the City Advisory Committee (CAC), which draws stakeholders comprising representatives from the Municipal Corporation, Development Authority, Private Sector, Academia, and Civil Society. Tarutium, in association with the city stakeholders, undertook an assessment of climate-related risks, in-depth vulnerability and risk assessment studies, provided technical and management support to the city stakeholders in undertaking sector studies (Water, Energy, Public Health, Environment, Green Buildings, Urban Transport, Flood Risk Management), supported development of technically sound project proposals for implementation under the ACCCRN (Pilot interventions to build resilience/ Implementation of Urban Resilience Projects); facilitated the development of CRS. Tarutium, in this phase, also promoted the exchange and sharing of knowledge through a well-developed networking strategy.
In Phase III, Tarutium supported ACCCRN and Urban Climate Change Resilience (UCCR) activities in new cities. Tarutium continues to support the development of high-potential intervention proposals identified as part of the CRS in Phase II and creates or finds opportunities for the local government to implement resilience activities.
As part of scaling resilience across Indian cities, Tarutium is focused on creating cooperation partners to implement urban climate change resilience (UCCR) activities.
Key Initiatives
• Cool Roof Ventilation in Indore & Surat
• Lake Conservation in Indore
• Early Warning System on Flood Management in Surat
• Mobile based Diseases Surveillance in Indore
• Urban Service Monitoring System (UrSms)
• Urban Health and Climate Resilience Centre.
As part of scaling resilience across Indian cities, Tarutium is focused on creating cooperation partners to implement urban climate change resilience (UCCR) activities.
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