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Policy brief: Urban disaster resilience

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United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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Publication Year
2023
Number of pages
3 p.

This policy brief explores challenges faced in urban disaster resilience. The world’s population passed eight billion in late 2022, with much of the increase concentrated in ever-expanding urban areas, where more than 80 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is generated. 

Some of the key points of the policy brief include:

  • The New Urban Agenda provides a clear, coordinated, integrated, inclusive, risk-informed framework for resilient and sustainable urban development. It identifies four fundamental drivers for transformational change: policy and legislation; urban and land use planning and design; governance; and financing mechanisms. 
  • National urban-resilience policies should, through regulatory and financial means, empower local authorities, as the closest institutional level to citizens and communities, to strengthen risk-informed development planning and investment towards low-emission, nature-based, equitable, resilient and circular development. 
  • Investing in preventative measures, such as the Early Warning for All initiative, protects the lives, livelihoods and wellbeing of citizens. 
  • The use of clearer investment criteria and metrics, more public-private partnerships, and expanded regulatory frameworks, risk-proofs local infrastructure assets and systems, such as roads, power and water supplies, schools and hospitals. 
  • Widened use of technology, especially that within reach of least-developed countries (LDC) and small island developing states (SIDS), is a game-changer, enabling cities, for instance, to apply data analysis and develop innovative risk-management solutions. 
  • Mechanisms, networks and initiatives, such as Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030), harness the power of peer-to-peer learning between municipalities; help implement solutions to urban disaster resilience challenges; and broker technical support from partners, including the private sector. 
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