NSCE continues to advance climate-resilient urban development in Egypt.

Developed as a foundational cornerstone for systemic urban planning, the Climate Resilience Instrument for the Urban Development Fun (UDF) in Egypt was engineered to equipped with institutional mechanisms to assess, prioritize, and integrate climate adaptation parameters directly into nationwide urban upgrading initiatives.

Project: Development of a Climate Resilience Instrument for the Urban Development Fund (UDF) in Egypt 

Building on this systemic groundwork, NSCE’s latest project is the Development of a Climate-Related Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Plan for Damietta. Highly vulnerable to sea-level rise and extreme weather, Damietta serves as a critical pilot project under Egypt’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) and Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) frameworks. This initiative bridges policy and action by creating localized, proactive risk-mitigation blueprints to safeguard coastal communities and infrastructure.

Project: Development of a Climate-Related Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Plan for Damietta, Egypt

NSCE also continues its partnership in the EU Horizon Urban Co-Production Research Project. The idea that urban policies should not be made “for” populations but rather “with” them is a potentially profound engine of social transformation and empowerment. However, the realisation of such co-production processes is often marked by epistemic inequalities and unequal power relations. The aim of Fairville is to explore the links between multi-scalar urban inequalities with democracy and participation. The research proposes to document this entanglement. It also proposes pilots of participatory research-action that engage local academics, -authorities, -community-based organisations, -residents and -users in the collective improvement of deprived urban neighbourhoods via a deepening of resident and user participation in new and existing democratic processes.

Project: Fairville