Capacity Building for Climate & Disaster Resilience

program duration: February - April 2010
City-level implementation and monitoring will continue for years after formal program completion

Disaster in Mumbai, India   Photo courtesy of CITYNET

Climate change is happening.

Asia Pacific, one of the most vulnerable regions in the world, has experienced repeated destruction and loss of lives caused by climate-induced and hydro-meteorological disasters.
Dense-population cities are becoming increasingly affected. To avoid being struck unprepared, appropriate measures need to be taken, now.

Local governments, the closest administrative body to local communities, play a crucial role in minimizing loss and in integrating disaster risk reduction measures.

“Local governments must act to increase community resilience,” the Hyogo Framework for Action stresses.

The Climate and Disaster Resilience Initiative (CDRI) capacity-building program seeks to help local governments manage current and potential risks posed by climate change. Through distance learning methods, CDRI promotes the development of plans and measures to address these issues, to maximize the resilience of urban communities.

Introduced in 2008 by Kyoto University, CDRI covers research, education, training, and the development of city profiles to indicate existing levels of resilience. CITYNET, the UNISDR Hyogo Office, and the UNU have joined in these efforts to further advance city profiling.

By using the profiling methodology to design a comprehensive and action-oriented learning and training package, TDLC is now also involved in realizing the CDRI capacity-building program. Led by Kyoto University, SEEDS is developing content, and monitoring for the program is to be based on the broad network of CITYNET.

Disaster in Mumbai, India   Photo courtesy of CITYNET

The program comprises three stages:

Stage 1: CDRI Basics

  - capacity-building for overall resilience mapping

  - urbanization and urban risk, CDRI methodology, concept of Climate Action Plan (CAP)

  - resilience map questionnaire completion

Stage 2: Training and Action Workshop

  - design and initiation of Climate Action Plan (CAP), based on:

  - CDRI analysis results

  - self-evaluation matrix

Stage 3: CAP Development and Implementation

  - City Climate and Disaster Resilience Policy framework

  - CAP implementation with specific time frames

The CDRI capacity-building program encompasses a wide range of approaches: face-to face workshops, field trips, Internet-based self-study incorporating Moodle, videoconferencing, and working group discussions to prompt active interaction among participants.

In line with the UNISDR World Disaster Campaign 2010-2011 “Building Resilient Cities” scheme, qualified candidates for Champion Cities are to be selected from among program participants.

Organizers/Partners：

CITYNET – The Regional Network of Local Authorities for the Management of Human Settlements

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
SEEDS

World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center

UNISDR

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