In 18 months since its launch, Making Cities Resilient 2030 has mobilized 1,351 municipalities with a combined population of over 380 million along with 280 service providers.
The online MCR2030 dashboard is becoming more active, showing potential to systematically link municipalities to services. National governments and national municipality associations (including Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil, Colombia, Gambia, Jamaica, Mexico, and Philippines) are using MCR2030 to convene and facilitate more common and coordinated approaches on national-local disaster risk governance.
MCR2030 partners are shifting to a more proactive and collaborative approach particularly on communications, advocacy, and capacity building. Over 280 service providers are offering their technical support to cities.
In short, MCR2030 has reached a ‘critical mass of membership’ and is demonstrating more examples of a pivot to action and implementation. However, to achieve what MCR2030 was designed to do, that is help cities implement programming to build resilience, we must continue to drive the initiative both at the global and regional levels by – Pushing a focus to implementation and Enhancing engagement of MCR partners.
To address these challenges UNDRR is taking every opportunity to engage with cities and partners. The UCLG World Congress Daejeon 2022 is a great opportunity to network with local governments and partners. With the vast local government membership of UCLG it represents the perfect occasion for networking and amplifying the message for safer and resilient cities. That is why UNDRR and the MCR2030 is making our presence felt at Daejeon. Where will you be 12-14th October?
