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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 isdr-campaign@un.org

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