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Taking stock of progress and future strategy on
the Resilient Cities campaign281011
Feedback from ICLEI, EMI, UNHABITAT, WB-GFDRR,
Asia RTF-URR, ADPC, WCSDA, GROOTS, RMIT
Campaign Partnership Meeting01-02 November 2011,
Geneva, Switzerland
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World Disaster Reduction 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

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Campaign Launch in May 2010
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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
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Pre-requisite Participation, Governance Local
Action

• Ten Essentials
• Handbook
• LG Self
• Assessment
• Tool
• -Web- practices

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Saint-Louis une ville deau
Sharing information among cities on risks- and
measures
Photo source Mayor of Saint-Louis
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Partner survey
Campaigns added value. Lessons learnt Gaps
Elements for the next strategy Future
contributions - Proposals
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Added value
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

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Lessons learnt
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-leve
l 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
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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
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Opportunities Elements for the next strategy
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Opportunities Elements for the next strategy

Support in Advocacy Tools City Partnership for
Learning Performance Indicators to access
DRR Support Cities of the region in Owning
Campaign Developing Emergency Toolkit for
households, schools, hospitals, etc. Video based
Case study on World DRR practices
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Future contributions - proposals
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.
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Future contributions proposals (cont.)
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 societys resilience
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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.
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Thank you
United Nations, secretariat of the International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction
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