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Feedback from: ICLEI, EMI, UNHABITAT, WB-GFDRR, Asia RTF-URR, ADPC, WCSDA, GROOTS, RMIT
Campaign Partnership Meeting01-02 November 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
Taking stock of progress and future strategy on the Resilient Cities campaign281011
World Disaster Reduction Campaign – 2010-2015Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready!
Objective
Achieve resilient, sustainable urban communities through actions taken by local governments to reduce disaster risk
Know More
Invest Wisely
Build More Safely
Campaign Launch in May 2010
… local governments participate in the campaign (28 October 2011) in 77 countries
Wildfire idea: Self motivating – self measuring
Europe Central Asia Americas Africa Arab States Pacifc Asia
381 101 30 69 10 315
280 Austria, 125 India, 75 Philippines, 57 Lebanon, 50 Serbia, 43 Sri Lanka, 30 Pakistan, 30 Honduras, 29 Italy, 24 El Salvador
Pre-requisite:Participation,GovernanceLocal Action
Ten Essentials:-Handbook-LG Self AssessmentTool-Web- practices
Saint-Louis: une ville d’eauSaint-Louis: une ville d’eau
Sharing information among cities on risks- and measures
Photo source: Mayor of Saint-Louis
Campaign’s added value.
Lessons learnt
Gaps – Elements for the next strategy
Future contributions - Proposals
Partner survey
The key is enhanced awareness & learning among local authorities and policy makers on the importance of the urban resilience.
10 point checklist: giving city managers/politicians a tool for guiding their interventions seems to be part of the success
Networking of cities which add to knowledge and resource sharing & large partnership
Facilitates local implementation of the HFA, which is going to be the key until 2015
Added value
Recognition of good work and progressive leadership of city governments key to local implementation.
Linking city activities to the existing and on-going national policy and programs is crucial for sustainability
Multi-level governance is the way to go and scale up interactions between national and local govts- incl Ministries for LG & Urban Development
Making Cities resilient campaign is a long-term process – support the extension
Lessons learnt
Still a heavy emphasis on response-oriented actions from the policy makers- enrtypoint
Need to open a window for new partners
More focus and involvement of grassroot organizations
There is a lack of resources at the local level
Accomplishments are being made in small step increments
Lessons learnt
Develop a transparent monitoring system and provide resource to assist cities to follow through- interagency feedback & monitoring mechanisms
More focus should be given to implementation and measuring progress at local level
Increase national recognition (National level Incentives or award programs) for Champions or role model cities. “national protocols” for resilient cities
Assist dedicated technical institutions to provide direct technical inputs to cities
Opportunities – Elements for the next strategy
Absence of science based information and lack of competency in local-national level focal points to deliver such information
Lack of training opportunities for local government officials – increase nationally based knowledge sharing among cities
Safe schools and hospitals campaign should be an integral part of the resilient city campaign and should be promoted as such.
Limited donor support for urban programs
Opportunities – Elements for the next strategy
Blueprint for organising national seminar on Making Cities resilient campaign
Need for multi-sector cooperation (public – private cooperation
Reward cities for innovation, governance and sharing of good practices
Upscale City to City learning and cooperation
Disseminate good practices
Opportunities – Elements for the next strategy
Develop quantitative and qualitative indicators for state of resilience in the city to enable to analyse spatial changes as a result of the campaign (resilience assessment)
Linkages with formal academia (integrating DRR into school curriculum)
Share tools for City to City cooperation.
Need for a “common language” to deal with various stakeholders at local level
Opportunities – Elements for the next strategy
Opportunities – Elements for the next strategy
Need to sort out the cities on the basis of similar risk pattern or culture to help them share information
Gaps should be considered as opportunities
Heart of disaster reduction program is day to day work activities
Need to publish more success stories of cities
How to obligate political institutions for their commitment
UNISDR suggestion to involve private sector in DRR
Opportunities – Elements for the next strategy
Mentoring of other cities who signed up to the Campaign.
Aside from just knowing the status of participating cities in their disaster resiliency campaign, a mechanism to encourage participating cities to improve their current status should also be established, i.e. target/goal-setting.
Opportunities – Elements for the next strategy
Agree on a priority list of actions and programs within the campaign;Standardize Disaster Reduction/Disaster Preparedness terminologies and terms; Establish quantitative/performance measurements for benchmarking;Provide a formal learning/educational platform for training and preparing different sectors and members of society to deal with disaster reduction.
Opportunities – Elements for the next strategy
Support in Advocacy ToolsCity Partnership for LearningPerformance Indicators to access DRRSupport Cities of the region in Owning CampaignDeveloping Emergency Toolkit for households, schools, hospitals, etc.Video based Case study on World DRR practices
The Resilient Cities Congress in Bonn, May 2012, to feature urban risk reduction and campaign objectives. ICLEI strategic plan incl Resilience
3rd WCSDF in September 2012 focusing on urban planning, risk reduction and environmental protection
Research into the linkages of DRR, climate change adaptation and urban planning
Private sector
Develop joint training program for member countries and city to city cooperation. GETI, EMI….
Future contributions - proposals
Translation of UNISDR key documents into Chinese and making them available to local government officials
Community Practitioners Platform- planning city learning events, coordinate with UNISDR
Academic and research institution linkages with govt. to develop joint action plan to tackle hazard risk in Sri Lanka
ANDROID network to promote co-operation and innovation among European Higher education institutions to increase society’s resilience
Future contributions – proposals (cont.)
Engaging private sector:
Identify 5 key factors for successful resilience partnerships between public and private sector (PPPs), and how to measure and to reward them.
Specify key industries to be included, and address them.
Make a list if good practices of existing PPPs and a list of experts willing to share and collaborate, and connect them to the Campaign.
Future contributions – proposals (cont.)
Thank youUnited Nations, secretariat of the
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction [email protected]
www.unisdr.org/campaign