Online Capacity Building Workshop on Urban Risk-Informed Planning and Making Cities Resilient,Towards the development and implementation of local disaster risk reduction strategy, in Partnership with the United Office for Distaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), On the platform Zoom of the UNDRR, 19, 20, 21 October 2020.

This online capacity-building workshop, while promoting the importance of effective climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, aims to:

1. Increase political commitment and social demand for disaster resilient development, adapted for climate change, aiming for sustainable development.
2. Increase engagement of local government actors in the field of local development and planning with disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation agenda as well as to enhance city planners and decision makers’ ability and commitment to promote disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation through relevant systems, policies, and processes
3. Learn about the Making Cities Resilient Global Campaign and how its tools, materials and approaches may be used to build local resilience to disasters.
4. Provide an opportunity for local experts and officials to enhance capacities with a focus on DRR action plan development and implementation based on the Making Cities Resilient Campaign 10 Essentials for making cities resilient
5. Strengthen the linkage between national-local disaster risk reduction planning and implementation
6. Serve as a platform to share good practices and exchange in-depth learning among participants

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