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affect a given region. The linkages are assessed across three main clusters: a) the global supply chain resource patterns that flow in-and-out of a city-region, b) the global climate change impacts on weather and weather events, and c) the global impacts stemming from events such as supply chain disruptions, weather events, and commodity price spikes86. Thanks to a commitment by DFID to include provide funding for the prototype development, the open source resilience.io platform will be tested in Accra, Ghana, during the Future Cities Africa programme which is run by Cities Alliance and is part of the Future Proofing Cities framework. Accra’s municipality is already relying on a preliminary diagnosis provided by resilience.io to design a project for improving Water Sanitation and Hygiene conditions in the Greater Metropolitan Area. Similarly, The Ecological Sequestration Trust is planning to launch an Urban Development Investment Fund, that can bring institutional investors,
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development finance, private investors and the public sector within cities together. This will work as a vehicle to initiate, develop and create projects in city-regions, using resilience.io to manage and provide the evidence for performance as well as a planning tool87. Understanding of Resilience: As it emerges from the resilience.io tool, The Ecological Sequestration Trust’s stance towards resilience is clearly informed by a broad understanding of cities, both concerning the relationship between the urban-rural dynamics characterising their region and the interconnections between economic, societal and environmental ecosystems. Therefore, not only is the organisation well aligned with a systemic and crosssectoral understanding of urban environments, but it also introduces fruitful entry points on the cross-scale linkages between (and within) the urban system and the regional or global transformations occurring in the economic and environmental realms.