Rockefeller reaches 100 resilient cities target, but 'work is only just beginning'

Washington and Seattle, Nairobi and Lagos, Manchester and Belfast are all included in the final list of member cities as 100RC programme reveals it has had more than 1,000 applications since 2013

Less than three years after its launch, the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities programme has reached a notable landmark, with the announcement of its third and final tranche of members - taking this global initiative up to its full quota of 100 cities.

With fast-growing megacities such as Lagos, Jakarta, Seoul and Nairobi among the 37 revealed today in a joint launch in the Kenyan capital and Washington DC, the multimillion dollar programme looks to be tackling the most ambitious and difficult aspects of "building resilience" (a phrase describing the process of discovering how multiple shocks and stresses are interlinked and related).