Center for urban disaster risk reduction resilience

CUDRR+R’s Ebru Gencer chaired “Efficient Post-Disaster Recovery Phase that Supports Well-Being and Diversity” session at the Frontiers of Development: Disaster Resilience Symposium that took place in Istanbul during 2-4 March, 2020.

The session discussed how post-disaster recovery and reconstruction strategies and action-plans can bring together multidimensional factors and crosscut their systems. Speakers provided a wide array of points including from Luis Carvalho, Civil Protection Agency of Amadora, Portugal; Amanda Lamont, Australasian Women in Emergencies Network (AWE), and Zeynep Gul Unal, Yildiz Technical University and ICOMOS ICORP/International Scientific Committee on Risk Preparedness.

Effective risk governance at the #urban scale requires participation, from decision-making to planning and implementation. Read more from Ebru Gencer, Center for Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CUDRR+R) about how regional and local contexts shape stakeholder involvement in #ResilientCities: http://bit.ly/2OuDXCv

CUDRR+R attended Workshop on Urban Resilience Metrics for Policy Action organized by the Bartlett Development Unit at University College London in September 26-27, 2019.

The aim of this meeting was to bring together practitioners working with different local level risk information methodologies to discuss how information is used for implementing disaster risk management at the local level. In addition to CUDRR+R, participants in the meeting include practitioners working with DesInventar, Action at the Frontline, ReMapRisk, CityRAP, SDI’s Know Your City, UNISDR Resilience Scorecard, 100RC, ARUP City Resilience Index and UN-Habitat City Resilience Profiling Programme.

This workshop aimed to provide a forum for sharing experiences of how risk information is used by local governments, policy-makers, practitioners and communities to act on risks.

CUDRR+R participated at the Urban Climate Change Research Network’s (UCCRN) Science for 1.5 Degrees Session during the #climatesummit and at its strategic meeting at the Roosevelt House, joining the discussion on how to translate UCCRN’s  Second Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities ( http://uccrn.org/arc3-2/ ) into action within the next 3 to 5 years.

CUDRR+R’s Ebru Gencer attended the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, in Geneva that took place in May 2019. CUDRR+R was represented at the Local and Regional Governments meeting for the Implementation of the Sendai Framework as Ebru Gencer delivered a keynote speech. In addition, she chaired the “Using Gender, Age and Disability Responsive Data to Empower those left Furthest-Behind” side event organized by DRR Dynamics.

Ebru Gencer was also the Lead Author of the Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies in Urban Areas chapter of the 2019 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.

You can access the full report here.

https://gar.undrr.org/

CUDRR+R attended the 7th Steering Committee Meeting of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign that took place at UN-Habitat’s City Resilience Profiling Program offices at San Pau, Barcelona. The Steering Committee worked on developing a road map to facilitate nations and cities achieve the goals of the Sendai Framework and the SDGs to achieve sustainable and resilient cities. The Steering Committee was chaired by UN-Habitat’s Esteban Leon. Among attendees were other steering committee members including UNDRR’s Ricardo Mena and Sanjaya Bhatia, UCLG’s Mohammed Boussraoui, Global Resilient Cities Network’s Braulio Eduardo Morera, University of Huddersfield’s Dilanthi Amaratunga and City Representatives, from Manchester City, Ms. Kathy Oldham, from Amadora, Portugal, Mr. Luis Carvalho, from Adeban, Jordan, Mr. Khaled Abuaisheh and from Makati City, Philippines, Ms. Violeta Seva.

Climate Resilient Cities in Latin America Initiative published the final investigative reports of their funded projects. Please read our report: Planeamiento Participativo para la Resiliencia al Clima en ciudades de America Latina here

https://www.crclatam.net/documentos/publicaciones/72-reporte-de-investigacion-planeamiento-participativo-para-la-resiliencia-al-clima-en-ciudades-de-am%C3%A9rica-latina/file.html