ECONOMY

Thessaloniki was selected in the second cohort cities of 100 Resilient Cities - Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation to develop a customised resilience strategy. The City needs to undertake a number of activities to establish the foundation and future direction of its resilience strategy. One of these activities is the Preliminary Resilience Assessment (PRA).

The stages of the PRA process include:

• A City profile with contextual information to determine the City’s powers to take action on building resilience.
• An analysis of actions and plans currently underway in Thessaloniki. The analysis helped to identify how the efforts currently being taken by the Municipality, academia, civil society groups and other partners.
• A gathering of stakeholder perceptions of Thessaloniki’s’ strengths and weaknesses from a broad range of stakeholders during a series of engagement activities.
• A Preliminary asset scan, to identify the significant assets that exist in Thessaloniki, which contribute to the City’s physical, economic and social resilience.
• A review of shocks and stresses, to identify the most significant shocks and stresses that affect Thessaloniki today, or which are anticipated to affect Thessaloniki in the future. By aggregating shocks and stresses with assets, it was possible to identify the scale of possible consequences that could occur in relation to the City’s drivers for resilience.

For more information, you can find the Preliminary Resilience Assessment Report in the following link (en): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_zbMuz0nwfxMjA4bFllYlU4SzA