The Urban Climate Resilience Masterclass (UCRMC) is a practical training program designed to strengthen the capacity of city officials and urban practitioners to understand climate risks and integrate resilience into urban planning, infrastructure and service delivery. 

The Masterclass combines foundational concepts with practical tools and approaches for assessing urban climate risks, working with communities, planning and delivering climate-resilient infrastructure, and financing urban resilience.
The core curriculum covers six areas:
– introduction to climate change and urban resilience;
– understanding climate risks in cities;
– locally led adaptation;
– climate-resilient urban infrastructure;
– step-by-step approaches to infrastructure delivery; and
– financing climate-resilient urban infrastructure.  

The materials are intended to provide trainers, municipalities and urban practitioners with practical examples that can be adapted to local climate risks, institutional arrangements and urban development priorities. 
The materials presented here have been developed and adapted through delivery in different country contexts, including Bangladesh, Kenya and Somalia. In Kenya, the Masterclass was developed with the Kenya School of Government and subsequently adopted for institutional delivery and national roll-out.

As a practical companion to the Masterclass, The Urban Climate Risk Profile Preparation Guidelines provide municipalities and urban practitioners with a practical, step-by-step approach to developing a rapid climate risk assessment using readily available data, existing plans and local knowledge.
The accompanying template guides users through the assessment and helps them turn the results into a concise Urban Climate Risk Profile. The process moves from establishing the urban context, through hazard, exposure and vulnerability assessment, to identifying priority risks and preliminary resilience solutions.  
Designed as a decision-making tool rather than an end in itself, the resulting Urban Climate Risk Profile translates climate information into actionable inputs for urban planning, infrastructure investment and service delivery.