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Dubai as a smart, sustainable and resilient role model city to establish a city resilience hub under the MCR 2030 Programme

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and its diverse impact, Dubai government combated and alleviated the pandemic’s effects and rapidly regain momentum in recovering with its technological innovation and rapid development. It has demonstrated astonishing
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Asia-Pacific Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction (APP-DRR) Forum

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Training speaker photo
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UNDRR, UNOSSC, and PAHO/WHO support capacity development for resilient cities and risk-informed communities

Since September, more than 2500 participants from close to 150 countries and territories, with almost equal gender participation, have joined a certified online training workshop focusing on making cities resilient, jointly organized by the United Nations

[UNDRR-UNOSSC-PAHO joint webinar] Cities experience and good practices on reopening and adjusting public health measures in response to COVID-19

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation
Pan American Health Organization

Launch of Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Resilient Cities Network
United Cities and Local Governments
United Nations Human Settlements Programme - Headquarters
United Nations Office for Project Services
World Bank, the
World Council on City Data
A group photo at DDPM headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, in the aftermath of the webinar which was attended by over 200 officials from across the Government of Thailand.
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Helping the ‘Bangkok Principles’ take root in Thailand

BANGKOK – In 2016, Thailand helped formulate the “Bangkok Principles” which seek to integrate health into disaster risk reduction. Now, the country is mainstreaming the principles domestically to safeguard against the next health emergency. Soon after the
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[UNDRR GETI & UNITAR curso ACESIBLE de aprendizaje virtua] Desarrollando ciudades resilientes: Elaboración de Estrategias Locales de Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres y de Resiliencia (2020 Edición de Invierno, Curso Accesible)

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
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[UNDRR GETI & UNITAR ACCESSIBLE E-learning Course] Making cities resilient: Developing local disaster risk reduction and resilience strategies (2020 winter edition, ACCESSIBLE course)

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
United Nations Headquarters New York
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General Assembly puts the Sendai Framework at the centre of COVID-19 response and recovery policy

As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, Member States of the United Nations have agreed to put the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction at the centre of recovery and rehabilitation policy. On 11 September 2020, the General Assembly
Participants in the COVID-19 "Towards Resilience of Cities" webinar
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COVID-19 trigger to re-examine resilience

The urban experience of COVID-19 is “a trigger for us to re-examine the meaning of local resilience,” said Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction in a webinar with cities and local government