The Making Cities Resilient Campaign

The Divisions of Risk and Disaster Management have been holding a series of stakeholder workshops over the last few weeks in order to address this International Campaign, launched by UNISDR, in the context of the Seychelles Capital, Victoria.


The Vision of the campaign is:

To Achieve Resilient Sustainable Urban Communities

This vision is to be realised through the attainment of the following three Objectives:

• Know more – raise the awareness of citizens and governments, at all levels, of the benefits of reducing urban risks.

• Invest wisely – identify budget allocations within local government funding plans to invest in disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities

• Build more safely – include DRR in participatory urban development planning and processes and protect critical infrastructure.

The DRDM workshops have received coverage in the national press – click on the photo below to enlarge and read the whole article:

 

For more information on the international campaign and to download the campaign kit simply follow the following link: http://www.unisdr.org/english/campaigns/campaign2010-2011/  


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