how National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management implement in our city/municipality
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As we begin the second decade of a new century, more than half of the world’s population lives
in cities and urban centres. Urban settlements are the lifelines of today’s society. They serve as
nations’ economic engines, centres of technology and innovation, and as living examples of our
cultural heritage. But inherent in the important roles they play in society are the consequences
of their success: cities can also generate new risks. These include the increasing number of
informal settlements, social inequality and environmental degradation.
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is a broad based coalition of organizations
that work together to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action 2010-2015: Building the
Resilience of Communities and Nations to Disasters. UNISDR is the secretariat of the Strategy,
working with partners to raise awareness, increase commitment to sustainable development
practices that can reduce disaster risk and increase the safety of citizens – to invest today for a
safer tomorrow. ISDR partners are launching a new campaign in 2010 – Making Cities Resilient
– to enhance awareness about the benefits of focusing on sustainable urbanization to reduce
disaster risks.
This publication is the result of such a partnership. UNISDR, together with the International
Training Centre of the ILO and the UNDP South-South Cooperation Unit collaborated in
collecting these illustrative examples of how local governments and cities have gained
experience in reducing disaster risk. In the coming months UNISDR and its partners will
continue to collect, document and share good practice on how to make our cities more
resilient.
We will continue to serve local governments and citizens through contributing to innovative
ways to learn and develop sustainable urban communities, safe from disasters.