Craig Duncan - Making Cities Resilient

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Campaign topic continues to 2015

Craig Duncan UNISDR IDRC-Davos, 2012

Global Campaign – 2010-2015

Making 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

Engaging the Local

Communities Using the

Hyogo Framework Lens:

Ten-Point Checklist:

10 Essentials for

Making Cities and

Municipalities Resilient

CAMPAIGN Wildfire idea:

Self motivating – self measuring

Leadership by Mayors and Governors:

Champions, convince/mentor others (20)

Role model cities- willing to share their knowledge

with others (32)

Participating cities: seeking to improve,

commitment (1060)

Partners and Advocates: support, advocate

Campaign Champions

“Disaster risk reduction is an investment, not a cost. It increases business returns, allow development to proceed amid disasters since they don’t disrupt people’s lives when the local government takes charge of the disaster”

-Joey Salceda, Governor Albay Province, Philippines

Handbook:

Launched today!

• English

• Chinese

• Farsi

• Spanish

• Russian

• French

HFA Local Government Self Assessment Tool

43 indicators - sort by 10 essentials or HFA 1-5

Capacity-implementation: Support to city-to-city

learning & cooperation, training opportunities,

mentoring systems, knowledge base

Web-platform for sharing - MATCHING NEEDS WITH

EXPERTISE

Tools: Resilient Cities report, city resilience index

and metrics, cost-benefit..

Next phase 2012-2015

Sign-up My City is Getting

Ready!

United Nations,

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

isdr-campaign@un.org

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