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Urban Risk & Planning

Meetings and conferences

MCR2030 Webinar: From emergency response to resilience: future-proof city region food systems

Meetings and conferences

MCR2030 Webinar - Building Resilient Urban Systems Risk-Informing Urban Development: An Imperative for Resilience

Meetings and conferences

MCR2030 Webinar - Beyond COVID19: Health security preparedness and risk management for improved resilience

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Documents and publications
2023

Policy brief: Urban disaster resilience

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.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Pudahuel (Chile) es primera ciudad en aplicar herramienta de inclusión de personas con discapacidad desarrollada por UNDRR y ONGs
Updates

Pudahuel (Chile) is first city to apply tool for inclusion of persons with disabilities developed by UNDRR and NGOs

The application of the tool was conducted through a workshop facilitated by UNDRR under the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
UNDP flood recovery programme Pakistan
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Cities ‘are theatres of action and opportunity’

The theatre of action and opportunity for solutions in pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals has ‘gravitated towards urban centres’. Many of these solutions will be through policymakers and their partners adopting more ‘systems-based’ approaches
Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) United Nations Development Programme - Headquarters 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 Human Settlements Programme - Headquarters
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Training

[UNDRR GETI, UNOSSC, PAHO/WHO, WHO Joint Certificate Training] Whole-of-society approach to creating healthy, resilient and sustainable cities

Intensive disaster risk

The risk of high-severity, mid- to low-frequency disasters, mainly associated with major hazards.

Annotation: Intensive disaster risk is mainly a characteristic of large cities or densely populated areas that are not only exposed to intense hazards such as strong earthquakes, active volcanoes, heavy floods, tsunamis or major storms but also have high levels of vulnerability to these hazards.

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Urban Risk & Planning
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Training

[UNDRR, UNDESA/DPIDG/UNPOG & UNITAR CIFAL Jeju] Online Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction, Risk-informed Governance, Finance Mechanisms and Innovative Solutions for Local Resilience

Updates

The key role of Regional Coordinating Committees in promoting urban resilience

Among the MCR2030 success stories of 2022 are numerous cities like Kulhuffushi City in the Maldives and Ormoc and Baguio City in the Philippines that are currently developing local disaster risk reduction (DRR) plans.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific