Zenaida Delica-Willison. SUMMARY OF THE TWO DAY WORKSHOP Day 1. Welcome and Opening Remarks by...

Zenaida Delica-Willison


SUMMARY OF THE TWO DAY WORKSHOP

Day 1.

Welcome and Opening Remarks by Salvano

Signing of MoU between ISDR and CADS

Presentations:

Part 1: Local Governments presentations from Albay, The Philppines; South Africa; Pune,India and Cataluna, Spain. The presentation higlighted the good practices of their offices, despite the hazards and vulnerabilities. (See power point presentations)

Part 2: Presentations from the UN Agencies, UNOSAT, UNDP and ILO and Provention. They highligheted their programs and services to the Local governments. (See powerpoint presentation


Day 1.

Part 3: Presentation of various global, regional and national

Mechanism for networking (See presentation).

Introduction of the objectives, agenda, schedule, logistical arrangements.

Part 4. Workshops: Refer to guideline in the agenda: (Summary of workshop results, Day 1, and summary of Day 2, below and Summary of Evaluation by participants.


INPUTS ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION BASED ON THE PRESENTATIONS


Hazards


Vulnerabilities


Readiness & Capacity


If capacity (and readiness) is insufficient

If vulnerabilities are too great

If the scale of hazard is too big

Then, the risk is too high, emergencies may not be managed locally, the communities may not cope,

DISASTER will occur.


•DEVELOP CAPACITY AND INCREASE READINESS

•REDUCE VULNERABILITIES

•UNDERSTAND HAZARDS

=REDUCE DISASTER RISKS

THEN HAZARDS CAN BE MANAGED LOCALLY AND DISASTERS WILL NOT OCCUR

DISASTER RISK REDUCTION


1. Do we Need It?

Overwhelmingly YES, we need it.

Purpose, Objectives, Added Value

A global venue for open forum of local government issues, solutions and learning

GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION


1. To provide opportunities for building capacity of LG & share experiences (raising awareness, learning opportunities, training, knowledge sharing, technology information, research, workshops seminars)

2. Global level advocacy group

3. Developing mechanism for taking LG learning to marketplace



5. Promote capacity development

6. To Promote platform for climate change impact at local level



Suggested mechanism:

• Organize a small advisory group to push forward the objectives of the LGA

• Secretariat support:

---Hosting web based discussion

---Data base hosting or virtual library



--Facilitate discussion through other means such as teleconferences

--Support the needs of the Advisory group as much as possible and able

--Continue the initiation of the organizing of the Advisory group

--continue communicating with this group



Work Plan till June 2009

Publication of good practices –solicit articles, choose and compile.

Articles presented here should be posted to the web

Meeting with existing organizations to gather suggestions

Organize of the Advisory Group before the Advisory group based on Selection criteria that must be developed through consultation

DISASTER RISK REDUCTION


HEY, DON’T PANIC

U CAN DO IT


LETS MOVE FORWARD DESPITE THE ODDS


SUSTAINABILITY How disaster resilient & resistant our communities are?

How GOOD does it LAST?

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