The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network is an initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation and aims to catalyze attention, funding, and action on building climate change resilience for poor and vulnerable people by creating robust models and methodologies for assessing and addressing risk through active engagement and analysis of various cities. It is anticipated that by 2012, a network of cities in Asia will have developed robust plans to prepare for, withstand and recover from the predicted impacts of climate change.

The ACCCRN initiative has been carried out in 10 cities across 4 Asian countries, namely, India (Surat, Indore, Gorakphur), Viet Nam (Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Can Tho), Thailand (Chiang Rai, Hat Yai) and Indonesia (Bandar Lampung, Semerang). In the initial phase, the cities have experimented with a range of activities that collectively will improve the ability of the cities to withstand, to prepare for, and to recover from the projected impacts of climate change and climate variability. The approaches taken are determined by the local needs and priorities of each city.

In the Dissemination and Replication phase of ACCCRN, the learning, models, approaches and best practices developed across the 10 pilot cities will be supplemented with best practices from other approaches that build urban climate resilience and developed into a tool that could be adopted by other cities to develop Climate Resilience Strategy Plans.