City Resilience Program : Peru - Country Fact Sheet 2021

The City Resilience Program (CRP) was instrumental in strengthening the World Bank’s National Urban Cadaster and Municipal Support Project. The project strengthens urban cadasters in twenty-two municipalities across four provinces in Peru, and improves local government capacity for revenue generation and urban management, including hazard risk management. In particular, CRP funding enabled a review of the gaps in local property tax revenue and an assessment of hazards in the municipality of Breña. This activity included the use of drone and street view imagery, machine learning, and municipal taxpayer information to build a database that improves property tax assessment and collection. The database provides an overview of the municipality’s housing stock, especially its physical characteristics and vulnerabilities to natural hazards.