Belfast appoints Resilience Commissioner
Belfast City Council has appointed a new commissioner to help the city prepare for any scenario that might prevent it from functioning properly
The Commissioner for Resilience – the city’s first – will help build a comprehensive resilience strategy for Belfast, addressing major ‘shocks’ such as flooding, infrastructure failure and cyber–attack.
The new commissioner, Grainia Long, will also address ongoing ‘stresses’ such as fragile aspects of the city’s economy, economic exclusion, segregation, health inequalities and climate change.
The position will be funded for two years by a grant from the The Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities global network.
Belfast is one of only five cities in the UK to have been selected from over 1,000 applicant cities to participate in the network.
‘The Belfast Agenda sets out a number of ambitious economic and social goals for the next 25 years, and by working with the 100RC network, we can learn from many hard–won practical programmes and initiatives to ensure delivery of these goals,’ Ms Long said.