Basic Infrastructures and Services for Inclusive Community Resilience (INCOR)

The series of prominent natural and technical disasters highlight a vital need to shift our focus from a reactive response to a proactive mitigation. Such shift predisposes us to develop our understanding of what, when, and where basic infrastructures and services (BIS), as backbone of communities, need to be put in place and how they can be addressed to prevent and mitigate the effects of natural hazards. At the same time, basic infrastructures and services (BIS) are challenged by increased complexity and rapid changes in the world’s dynamics (e.g. rapid urbanization along with growing urban informality, growing gap between demand and supply, social conflict etc.). Such challenges suggest the need for optimizing capital allocation and providing equitable access to resources for all citizens, especially the poor. Therefore, an integrated resilience-inclusive BIS is yet to be developed for disaster risk planning and management.

Against this backdrop, and for the first time in Iran, this project will focus on basic infrastructures and services in a systematically and integrated way. INCOR will consider resilience and inclusion as the two major characteristics of basic infrastructures and services (BIS) in disaster risk planning and management.