The Future of Resilience: From Early Action to Reduced Vulnerabilities
UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Interpretation EN – ES – FR – KO
Local and regional governments are firmly on the ‘frontline of opportunity’ of efforts to reduce disaster risk in the era of the global Climate Emergency and COVID-19 pandemic. From the development of people-centered early warning systems and early action plans to the reduction of vulnerabilities through public service provision and risk-sensitive urban planning, LRGs are critical to secure progress towards Agenda 2030 in the face of increasingly complex shocks. Coinciding with International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, this session will look into local multi-stakeholder approaches towards “Early warning, early action”, and review the contributions of LRGs to the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
- Mr Andrew McElroy, MCR2030 Program Manager, UNDRR
- Mr. Andreas Wolter, 1st Deputy Mayor, City of Cologne
- Ms An Sung-Ah, Deputy Director Incheon Metropolitan City / MCR2030 Resilience Hub
- Ms Olga Dzhumaeva, IFRC Head of East Asia
- Mr Ramesh Guragain, Deputy Director, National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) / Executive Committee Member, Tomorrow’s Cities Hub
- Mr Sanjaya Bhathia, Head of the Office of UNDRR Office for Northeast Asia (ONEA) and Global Education and Training Institute (GETI)
- Mme Fatimetou Abdel Malick, President of Nouakchott Regional Council / UCLG Policy Co-Chair on Safer, Resilient and Sustainable Cities
- Mr Muhammad Bobby Afif Nasution, SE, MM., Mayor of Medan (TBC)
- Mr Fernando Gray, Mayor of Esteban Echevarria
- Mr Issa Kassis, Mayor of Ramallah