Measure Readiness Across the Ten Essentials

The Coastal Resilience Scorecard gives city teams a common, repeatable way to assess strengths and gaps across the Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient — turning strategy into an evidence-based diagnostic that drives investment prioritization and blue finance readiness.

The Scorecard Package · Version 1.1

Each download is a complete assessment kit. Choose the depth that fits your city team — each track pairs a scorecard document with its matching scoring tool, and a single user guide serves both.

Short Form (Level 1)

Rapid diagnostic for a first pass, workshop setting, or preliminary screening.

PDFShort Form Scorecard
XLSXShort Form Scoring Tool
Long Form (Level 2)

Full-depth assessment for teams undertaking a comprehensive readiness review.

PDFLong Form Scorecard
XLSXLong Form Scoring Tool

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User Guide PDF

How to run the assessment, score consistently across departments, and interpret the results — applies to both the Short Form and Long Form tracks.

The Coastal Resilience Scorecard

City teams use the Scorecard to assess strengths and gaps across the 10 Coastal Essentials — producing an evidence-based diagnostic that directly drives investment prioritization, strategy sequencing, and blue finance use-of-proceeds design.

E1 · Organize for Disaster Resilience E2 · Identify, Understand Use Current and Future Risk Scenarios E3 · Strengthen Financial Capacity for Resilience E4 · Pursue Resilient Urban Development and Design E5 · Safeguard Natural Buffers to Enhance Ecosystems’ Protective Functions E6 · Strengthen Institutional Capacity for Resilience E7 · Understand and Strengthen Societal Capacity for Resilience E8 · Increase Infrastructure Resilience E9 · Ensure Effective Disaster Response E10 · Expedite Recovery and Build Back Better

The Ten Essentials are stewarded by MCR2030 (Making Cities Resilient 2030), the UNDRR-led local resilience initiative. They were developed to accelerate implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030) at the scale where risk is actually managed — local and city government.

Open Source · Free to Use

The Scorecard is an open-source tool. Its methodology and assessment materials are openly published and free to apply — no license, no fee. The Advisory Board exists to keep it that way, and to distribute it globally for city- and company-scale pilots.