Making Cities Resilient Report 2012

2011
Partnership
Meeting Revised
Strategy
Event: Making Cities Resilient Campaign Partnership Meeting
Geneva, Switzerland, 1 – 2 November 2011
Significance: Partners and Role Model Cities took stock of progress and prepared the 2012-
2015 strategy for the Making Cities Resilient Campaign
Event: Caribbean Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction, Making Caribbean Cities Resilient
Workshop (CDEMA, UNISDR
Trinidad and Tobago 5 Dec 2011
Significance: Caribbean Campaign launch, Port of Spain Declaration (with action plan),
YEAR 2012
Event: European Resilient Forum, Building Cities’ Resilience to Disasters: Protecting
Cultural Heritage and adapting to climate change
Venice, Italy 19 – 20 March 2012
Significance: European mayors, local and national govts with UNISDR, Council of Europe,
EC, private sector, UN-Habitat, UNESCO: lessons learnt from Venice; workshop with
MARSH on protection of culture heritage. LAUNCH roll-out for HFA-Local Government Self-
Assessment Tool
2012
Council
of Europe
Resolution
339
Event: FLACMA (regional UCLG) Congress in Latin America
Santiago de Chile, Chile, 20 – 23 March
Significance: Mayors’ forum, followed by UN-Habitat sponsored training with UNISDR
for 14 municipalities in the Bio-Bio region. Pre-launch of the Handbook for Local
Government Leaders in Spanish.
Event: 22nd Session Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
Strasbourg 20 - 22 March 2012
Significance: The substantive Resolution 339 for Making Cities Resilient signed
Event: ASEAN Training Course on Urban DRR and Climate Change Adaptation
Manila, Philippines, 21 – 23 March 2012
Significance: Pre-launch of the Handbook for Local Government Leaders in English and
presentation of HFA – Local Government Self-Assessment Tool for ASEAN cities
2012
Handbook
for Local
Government
Leaders
Event: ICLEI 3rd Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation
Bonn. Germany 12 – 15 May 2012
Significance: Urban risk forum, lessons learnt; interviews for this Report; Post HFA
consultation with local governments; LAUNCH of Handbook for Local Government Leaders:
How to Make Cities More Resilient
Event: Resilient Cities Webinars (UNISDR, Council for Research and Innovation Building-
CIB).
29 May - 2 June 2010
Significance: Learning, input for this report, identify issues for further research. Topics:
risk reduction and urban planning; multi-stakeholders engagement; procesos de
reconstrucción; Local Government Self Assessment Tool. Seven Campaign cities
participated with academia
and NGOs.
Event: Rio+20 World Conference on Sustainable Development
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 20 – 22 June 2012-08-16
Significance: High-level side event on Making Cities Resilient, launch of voluntary
commitment. The Future We Want outcome document includes section of Disaster Risk
Reduction
(with focus on cities and communities).
Event: CityNet 25th Anniversary Asia-Pacific Congress
Jakarta, Indonesia 2 – 5 July 2012
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