Problem Description

Building Blocks

• Risk management committee training

Story

"Community risk management strengthening" is 1 of 4 goals of Medellín's Resilience Strategy. Medellín is a diverse, dynamic and expanding city that is constantly reinventing itself amidst social and economic difficulties. We have always embraced adversity as opportunity. Today, we continue to face a set of interrelated challenges of inequity, violence, illegality and extreme poverty that are exacerbated by our complex topography of steep slopes and narrow valleys. Our biggest challenges are to overcome problems associated with inequity, such as widespread rural-to-urban migration, poverty, social exclusion, unemployment, limited access to higher education and economic opportunity, which have been intensified by a culture of illegality inherited from many years of violence.

Resources

• Medellín's Resilience Strategy

Organisations Involved

• Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Contributed By

• Santiago Uribe Rocha, Chief Resilience Officer, Medellín Resilience Team
• Laura Vanessa Acevedo Díaz, Knowledge Manager, Medellín's Resilience Team
• Oscar Dario Cardona álvarez, Communications Manager, Medellín's Resilience Team

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