An ICLEI South Asia team met senior officials of Kakinada Municipal Corporation (KMC) on May 22, 2024, to brief them about the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN): Accelerating Inclusive Action programme. The objectives of the CDKN programme and its activity plan were shared with the municipal commissioner, superintendent engineer and medical health officer of the KMC, and the chief data officer of Kakinada Smart City Corporation Limited.
The CDKN programme aims to extend technical support to the KMC in assessing its disaster resilience, preparing a climate-induced disaster-resilient action plan with a focus on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) and ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) actions, and executing a pilot project incorporating suggestions received from the KMC under Knowledge to Action (K2A) project. The collaborative efforts between ICLEI South Asia and the municipal stakeholders aim to chart a pathway for achieving just, transformative, ecosystem-based and locally-led city disaster resilience.