Making Cities Resilient Report 2012

ANNEXES
Annex 1b.
Methodology of the study
This report is based on documentation provided by the urban centres involved in the Campaign. These documents
include presentations made at Campaign meetings between 2010 and 2012 and reports from local governments reporting
on the results of application of the HFA Local Governments Self-Assessment Tool. This report has also drawn information
from documents prepared by NGOs and researchers, including documentation prepared by local governments that
have applied for the UN-Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction. The IIED team preparing this report also conducted
eleven personal in-depth interviews with Campaign city representatives and received ten written questionnaires (see
interview questions in Annex 1c). In total, more than 90 sources and documents have been analysed from 42 cities. The
UNISDR team collected additional feedback and information from cities and partners for the report. UNISDR transferred
all reports and documentation received by cities to IIED and the authors during the kick-off workshop to define the scope
of this report, held in Geneva, May 2012. Where no definite date of the original issuance of a document is noted in the List
of Reference, May 2012 has been used.
The activities documented throughout the report are, by and large, self-reported by the cities. In this regard, the report
provides a considerable level of detail as to the breadth of activities, although it cannot assess their impact. In analysing
the documents, activities have been categorised and grouped for the most part according to the Ten Essentials checklist.
Chapter 5 of the report considers how cities and smaller urban centres can identify and measure different aspects
of resilience, what types of indicators can be used and the process for measurement. It draws on a range of current
literature about measuring resilience, as well as literature on urban governance. It also draws on responses from the
interviews on what they interviewees considered have been the main milestones for achieving resilience in their cities.
Annex 1C.
Questionnaire for Mayors and City Officials
Background
• What city do you represent
• What is your department and position
Resilience-building activities
• Why did you join the campaign
• Please provide details about specific initiatives/activities/programmes that your city has undertaken to to
reduce the impact of hazards or disasters. For each activity, please provide the following information:
a. Details about the name (where relevant), aims, nature and location of the project
b. Source(s) of financial support for the project
c. Whether the project has been associated with any organisational changes e.g. changes in legislation,
disaster risk reduction guidelines or budgets
d. Who has taken the lead for this project
e. Which other stakeholders have been involved in the project (including different government departments,
agencies, NGOs, private sector partners, community groups, etc.)
f. Whether any similar projects are planned for the future (and brief details of these)
g. Where we can find further sources of information or documentation about this
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