Training workshop “Increasing disaster resilience in urban settings”
11th PPRD South “prevention and preparedness”
workshop for staff-level officials
“Increasing disaster resilience in urban settings”
Lisbon, Portugal
15-16 October 2012
Agenda
Day 1: Monday, 15October2012
Introduction
08:30 - 09:00Registration of participants
09:00 - 09:15Openingaddress
Filipe Lobo D’Ávila, Secretary of State, Portugal
09:15 - 09:30Welcome speech
Arnaldo Cruz, Director General, National Authority for Civil Protection, Portugal
09:30 - 10:00Opening remarks by co-organisers incl. reference to the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
Pierluigi Soddu, PPRD South Executive Director
Paola Albrito, Head, UNISDR Regional Office for Europe
Workshop agenda and introduction of participants and workshop facilitators
10:00 - 10:30Coffee break
Block 1: Setting the scene: urban risk and disaster risk reduction
10:30 - 11:30Urban risk and disaster resilience in the urbanized world
Facilitated by Camillo Boano, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies and Disaster RiskReduction, University College of London (UK)
Followed by debate
11:30- 12:30Introduction to the World Disaster Reduction Campaign “My City is Getting Ready” and reminder of some basic principles of DRR “what are we talking about?”
Facilitated by LarsBernd,Regional Programme Officer, UNISDR - The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Arab States (Egypt)
Followed by Q&A
12:30 - 14:00Lunch
Block 2: Experiences from the Euro-Mediterranean region on addressing urban risk and building urban resilience
14:00 - 14:15Introduction
Facilitated by LarsBernd, UNISDR and Antonio Barbera, PPRD South
14:15- 14:45Good practice in addressing urban risk: Tevragh-Zeina (Nouakchott), Mauritania
Guest speaker: Mayor Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick
14:45- 15:15Good practice in addressing urban risk: presentation by city official from an IPA
Partner Country(TBD by UNISDR Europe, Tirana Municipality?)
15:15 - 15:45Good practice of civil protection involvement in building urban resilience: presentation by civil protection authority from IPA (Albania TBC)
15:45 - 16:15Coffee breakand and walk around posters prepared by cities prior to workshop on their urban risk(TBD)
16:15 - 16:45Good practice of civil protection involvement in building urban resilience: presentation by civil protection authority from ENPI South (Algeria TBC)
16:45- 17:15Plenary discussions
Facilitated by Camillo Boano
17:15- 17:30Wrap-up on main learning points of Day 1
UNISDR Paola Albrito
19:00- 20:00Welcome cocktail (TBC)
Day 2: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
9:00 -9:15Introduction
Camillo Boano
Block 3: Building urban resilience:introduction to tools and methodologies
9:15- 09:45The Mayor’s Handbook: How to Make Cites More Resilient
How to implement the Ten Essentials for Making cities resilient
Presentation by Lars Bernd
09:45- 10:30Other tools and methodologies for building urban disaster resilience
Presentation by Camillo Boano
Followed by Q&A
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break
Block 4: Monitoring local progress in reinforcing urban disaster resilience
11:00- 11:45Implementation of HFA at the local level: introduction to the Local Government
Self-Assessment Tool on progress in implementing the Campaign’s10 Essentials
Facilitated by Lars Bernd
Mr. Khaled Abuasheh, Abuaisheh, Head of Disaster Risk Reduction Unit, Aqaba
Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA), Jordan
Followed by Q&A
Block 5: Institutional challenges and practical concerns
11:45 - 12:30 Facilitated discussion on: challenges and opportunities at city/local level to advance DRR; how to strengthen national-local and local-local coordination on DRR, incl. between national disaster management authorities and cities; how governments, national disaster management authorities, UN, PPRD South and other sectors support local governments’ efforts and capacities?; concerns and prioritization
Facilitated by Camillo Boano
12:30-14:00Lunch
14:00- 14:45How to better support local action to create resilient communities through international Strategies: Plenary discussion on the post-2015 framework for Disaster Risk Reduction – Local Perspectives
Facilitated by Lars Bernd
14:45-15:15Way forward and conclusions of the workshop, “how to better address urban disaster resilience in the future, including in post-2015 framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Facilitated by Camillo Boano, PPRD South,Lars Bernd
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