Updates

A training-of-trainers on urban resilience and ‘Making Cities Resilient 2030’ (MCR2030) for Nepal and Bhutan took place from 15 to 18 May 2023.

Barcarena and Porto Alegre in Brazil, and Quito in Ecuador, have become the latest Resilience Hubs of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative.

The roadmap will be accompanied by the efforts of global and regional actors; further alignment and coordination was mentioned as a specific area of focus for CDEMA and CCCCC.

These three new Resilience Hubs will support our global network in sharing knowledge and best practices among MCR2030 cities.

Nothing manmade stops a major tsunami. The seawall at the Fukushima nuclear power facility in Japan was 19 feet (5.8 m) high, which proved no match for the forty-foot (12 m) wave that came ashore in 2011 from the Tohoku earthquake.

Without resilience, all the world’s development gains could be lost. Resilience can be built by investing in disaster risk reduction, which sits at the nexus between development, humanitarian and climate action.

The workshop will review the policy landscape and risk status in the island countries in the region, and develop a roadmap to define and pursue integrated approaches in the region.

HLPF side event. Risk-proofing infrastructure is not only a part and parcel of achieving the goals of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction but is also fundamental for achieving SDG 9 and safeguarding development gains across the 2030 Agenda.

UNDRR have been working with Costa Rica on strengthening critical infrastructure by using the Principles for Resilience Infrastructure and Stress Test tool to analyze critical infrastructure from a systemic perspective.

As Caribbean countries brace for the ongoing Hurricane Season, key institutions in Trinidad and Tobago’s disaster preparedness and infrastructure resilience have begun the process of implementing the UNDRR’s Principles for Resilient Infrastructure.