📋 Tender Overview
The initiative seeks to build disaster and climate resilience in 16 cities across 8 Latin American and Caribbean targeted countries. Co-designed by UN-Habitat and SDC’s Regional Hub Lima, it focuses on inclusive, risk-informed municipal planning and community-led solutions. Aligned with national priorities, the initiative fosters multi-stakeholder participation and collaboration to protect lives and promote resilient, locally owned urban development.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
America
Disaster Risk Reduction
Governance
Climate change and environment
Public sector policy
Environmental policy
06.10.2025 - 05.10.2029
CHF 3’500’000
The project in brief
Background Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) faces growing urban risks, as precarious settlements expand over floodplains, slopes, and seismic zones, exposing millions to climate and geological hazards. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) remains weakly integrated into local development, while risk data is fragmented and underused, adding a limited capacity to plan and invest in prevention. Local Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean addresses these challenges by working in 16 small and medium-sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador and Cuba. The initiative strengthens local capacities through multi-hazard risk analyses, use of digital tools, participatory planning and resilient infrastructure solutions. It supports municipalities to embed DRR in policies, municipal design, and investment decisions. Backed by UNHabitat and SDC’s experience in results at municipal level and risk management in the region, the initiative promotes scalable, costeffective solutions aligned with global and regional frameworks. By enhancing coordination, mobilising public-private partnerships and empowering communities, the initiative reduces exposure and vulnerability-building safer, more resilient cities in the long-term.
Objectives Communities in targeted Latin American and Caribbean cities achieve enhanced and safer living conditions through improved access to disaster risk-informed development, enabled by strengthened capacities in key institutions, responsible for municipal planning and disaster risk reduction.
Target groups Direct beneficiaries: i) Local and national government institutions responsible for disaster risk reduction and local development; ii) Municipal authorities and planning departments in small and medium-sized cities; iii) Community-based organisations, grassroots leaders, local academia and technical practitioners engaged in municipal planning; iv) Regional integration organisations and national DRR platforms committed to multilevel coordination and knowledge exchange. End beneficiaries: populations living in high-risk neighbourhoods across targeted LAC small and medium-sized cities.
Medium-term outcomes Outcome 1 Mainstreaming DRR in municipal planning (ci
