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Dear
participating cities and stakeholders of the Making Cities Resilient
Campaign, Ten years
ago, in 2010, the Making Cities Resilient (MCR) Campaign was launched at the
Resilient Cities event organized by ICLEI in a city of Bonn, Germany, as a
global advocacy campaign aiming to raise awareness on disaster risk reduction
and resilience at the local level. |
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Over the
past ten years 4,360 cities worldwide have joined the Campaign and benefited
from the Ten
Essentials for Making Cities Resilient, the
Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities and various other tools and
knowledge products, resulting in enhanced understanding and collaboration as
well as the development of local DRR strategies and its implementation. Though
the MCR Campaign is ending in 2020, the legacy will continue through the new initiative
“Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)”. Building upon the ten-year
experience of the MCR Campaign, MCR2030 will support cities with a clear
roadmap and access to a suite of tools to reduce risks and build resilience.
A collaboration among partners including the World Bank, Resilient Cities
Network, UN-HABITAT, ICLEI, UCLG, WCCD, UNOPS, IFRC, JICA and others, it aims
to support cities through advocacy, planning and implementation of risk
reduction and resilience plans. MCR2030 will be operational from January 2021
until the end of 2030. The ultimate aim of MCR2030 is to ensure cities become
inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by 2030 as a direct contribution
to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) and other
global frameworks for sustainable development action including the Sendai
Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement and the New Urban
Agenda. The United
Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the MCR Campaign
partners would like to acknowledge the engagement, support and contribution
from all national and local governments, role model cities, champions,
advocates, and all partners in each corner of the world. Without your
support, the Campaign would not have been this successful in engaging cities
in making their cities resilient. We look forward to our continued
collaboration in the MCR2030! Bonn, Germany, as a global advocacy campaign
aiming to raise awareness on disaster risk reduction and resilience at the
local level. |
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How the MCR Campaign
has supported cities around the world? |
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Kathryn
Oldham, Chief Resilience Officer, Greater
Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), United Kingdom, one amongst the 56 Role
Model Cities of the MCR Campaign, mentioned at the Launch of the Making
Cities Resilient 2030 on 28 October 2020, “… We completed the Disaster
Resilience Scorecard which led us to improve our governance mechanisms,
broadened the range of stakeholders engaged in resilience and so further
enhanced the recognition of DRR as a city priority. We have therefore been
able to use the Making Cities Resilient Campaign as a springboard to enable
systems to join together in thinking and planning around disaster resilience.
When COVID struck, this meant that we were able to quickly bring together the
whole city system to develop a cross-sector response to this disaster,” |
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Sioux
Campbell, Disaster Management
Community Resilience Officer, Cairns, Australia, shared at
the MCR Campaign steering committee meeting in July 2020, “… what we need
to do will become more challenging not only because of current circumstances
but because the challenges have become harder and more complex. The findings
from the Disaster Resilience Scorecard we ran a few years ago are starting to
see results in terms of research and planning around major issues. I look
forward to rerunning the Scorecard process and using the baseline measurement
to build a future for us… and moving into a very uncertain future for the
region due to the impacts of COVID.” |
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Liza
Velle B. Ramos, Research and Planning
Division Head, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Makati
City, the Philippines, shared with over 80 local government
representatives at the 13th CITYNET Disaster Cluster Seminar on 25 November
2020 that Makati City has used the Public Health Addendum as a tool to
revisit the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management on Health Plan and plan
for COVID-19 recovery and discover the areas where the city is doing well and
the gaps that need to be addressed, “… with these gaps, we were able to
identify major activities that we need to do”. These include, for example,
the need to revisit risk assessment and health scenario planning including
plans for all sectors (education, economic, etc.), renovation/retrofitting of
facilities for health hazard response, telemedicine and online consultation,
and improvement, digitization of health data system and interoperability.
Makati City continues to finalize the Disaster Risk Reduction Management on
Health Plan and enhance the city’s COVID-19 recovery plan based on these
findings. |
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The MCR
Campaign and its tools have been well recognized by partners as the best
place to start for cities. “This program [MCR] is not only beneficial to our
current programme [Resilient Cities Network], but it has been hugely
beneficial for the whole resilience agenda promoted and pioneered by the
Rockefeller Foundation. From the very beginning of the Rockefeller funded
resilience programmes [100 Resilient Cities], MCR Campaign has been a
reference point. Cities that were engaged in MCR Campaign and used the tools
were in lessons and experiences, and could explain to other cities how
resilience could be useful to their processes,” stated by Braulio Eduardo Morera, Resilient Cities
Network (GRCN), at the MCR Campaign Steering Committee Meeting in July
2020. |
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The MCR
Campaign has also helped guide national government to support local
governments in strengthening disaster risk reduction capacities. H.E. U.
Khürelsükh, Prime Minister of Mongolia, shared at the launch of MCR2030,
"During my tenure as Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia, all 22 major
cities in Mongolia joined the “Making Cities Resilient” UN Global Campaign in
2017, and I inform you that the Government of Mongolia has fulfilled its
commitment to implement Target (e) of the Sendai Framework by 2020, and all
our major cities have adopted [and] are implementing local DRR strategies as
of today...Through this Campaign, I believe that we have been able to build
better community disaster resilience and recognize an importance of local
leadership in DRR." |
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Learn more about
the MCR Campaign tools - https://www.unisdr.org/campaign/resilientcities/toolkit |
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The Ten Essentials for Making
Cities Resilient provides an underlying framework for understanding disaster
risk reduction at the local level. It includes ten fundamental areas a city
should pursue to ensure disaster risk reduction is integrated in various
development sectors and inclusive of citizen, private sector, and other
non-governmental bodies. The Ten Essentials helps cities to look at disaster
beyond emergency response and recovery to strengthen disaster risk
governance, in line with the priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster
Risk Reduction 2015-2030. |
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Framed by the Ten Essentials for
Making Cities Resilient, the Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities, a
flagship tool of the MCR Campaign developed by IBM, AECOM, UNDRR and MCR
Campaign partners with support from the European Commission and USAID, has
also been widely used by local governments around the world to assess resilience
progress and inform the development of local DRR strategies. Over 870 cities
around the world have reported using the Scorecard. By the end of 2020, the
Scorecard had been translated into 16 languages (Arabic, Bengali,
Burmese, Chinese, English, French, Italian, Korean, Mongolian,
Polish, Portuguese (PT), Portuguese (BR), Romanian,
Russian, Spanish, and Turkish), all of which were at the demand of
cities and member states. The translations were achieved with support from
national governments and partners. |
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Recognizing the potential oversight of
inadequate address of public health related hazards in disaster risk
reduction planning, a Public Health System Resilience Addendum of the
Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities (Public Health Addendum) was developed
and published in 2018 by MCR Campaign partners. This tool attracted a
great interest and became a timely instrument at the time of COVID-19
supporting local governments in strengthening public health risk reduction in
local DRR planning and implementation process. Within 2020, the Public
Health Addendum has swiftly been translated into 10 languages with
development of accompanying excel tool for utilization and analysis in 8
languages. |
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Moving towards the Decade of Action with MCR2030 |
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MCR2030 responds
to the growing understanding of urban risk: how it has changed and is
changing, and the impacts this will have on cities and citizens. It
recognises the increasing need for a systemic, joined-up approach to risk
reduction, that allows city leaders to plan for risk-informed development,
and citizens to benefit. MCR2030 builds on lessons learned during the
previous MCR Campaign implementation from 2010-2020. |
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Learn
more about MCR2030 at https://mcr2030.undrr.org/
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Thursday, December 24, 2020
Making Cities Resilient-UNDRR
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Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Our Communities Criteria. Business as Usual, or WHO HAS SERVED OUR COMMUNITIES. One of these 5 officials could be Biden's FEMA chief
Will we be back at ‘business as usual’ in practices and policies for communities of color? Which candidate has done more in fully practicing the 'WHOLE COMMUNITY' concept, and equitable inclusion for all communities in their jurisdiction currently or when they served in an emergency management leadership role for a City, County, or State? It is not a matter of understanding and being a certified professional in emergency management, it is a matter of consistently ensuring that all communities, and vulnerable communities that are known even under the current COVID-19 crisis by ZIP CODE are served. Our endorsement from the Black Emergency Management Association International (BEMA)will be based on a stringent criteria for our vulnerable communities, and ensuring that a candidate practices equitable inclusion of those communities, the whole community. That innovative approaches are implement to provide that service. Gatekeepers even exist within our own community. It is not a matter of checking a box to keep a voter block quiet, or even the coloreds quiet.
Charles D. Sharp . Chairman\CEO. Cornell University Climate Fellow. BEMA International https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063720813
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Sunday, December 20, 2020
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
$1.00 (One Dollar) Challenge. Our Narrative, OUR GIVING TUESDAY. BEMA Int, Mambo Mundo, NOSACONN
I’m asking all members of the Black Emergency Managers
Association globally to contribute $1.00 to Operation Asentamientos Humanos fundraiser.
This fundraiser is a collaboration of Mambo Mundo, NOSACONN (New
Orleans South Africa Connection), and BEMA International to provide relief and
recovery to the vulnerable communities of Honduras, Nicaragua, and
Jamaica as a result of multiple hurricanes that touched these communities in
November 2020.
We have been challenged. I’m confident that each of you as individual, and organization members of BEMA International can meet the challenge.
It doesn’t matter where the disaster, crisis, and emergency has occurred. It matters that now we and can control the narrative and each of you as members of BEMA International globally are representing vulnerable communities to say “No more!” when disasters and crisis strikes our community. That we will take a stand.
This is the first event in preparation for 2021 events for New Orleans, the Mid-Atlantic Region, the Caribbean, and other vulnerable communities. The COVID-19 crisis has again focused on the data to show which communities are vulnerable by Zip Code.
Time for a change. We are the change that is coming.
Our theme song: “Change is Coming" by Jamal Batiste (https://youtu.be/I6JvjCBGwhc)
Vulnerable communities must now take a stand and control the narrative for the services, and funding to sustain their communities. Your giving $1.00 is a part of the sustainability of our vulnerable communities globally. This is a start.
Give by any means. Give by selecting one of the methods listed below, and participate in this historical event of Us coming together as ONE. This is the First.
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Stay safe, be prepared.
Charles D. Sharp
Cornell University Climate Fellow Chairman\CEO Black Emergency Managers Association International
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