1. Urban Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation
Relates to: Energy, transportation, spatial form, housing, governance, built environment, waste and water systems, food, and technology.
Metro Issues: A common agenda? Systems integration and inter-operability. Institutional reach and flexibility. Pubic and private providers, owners, users, occupiers.
Choices: Resilience or adaptability? Flexibility? Where should leadership come from?
How to use technology?
Where to start?

2. MMR Resiliency: Disaster Risk Management
and Climate Change Adaptation
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH?
Flood control
Affordable housing to deal with damage due to building collapses & landslides
Dealing with safety aspects of public transportation
Mumbai Floods, 2005
Thane Collapse, 2013
SUCCESSES & LESSONS
ROADBLOCKS
KNOWLEDGE GAPS
Resilience of people to cope with the situation, should be built into any DMP
Advance warning systems by responsible authorities being trusted
Affordable housing solutions emerging slowly
Lack of co-ordination amongst institutions
Absence of responsible metro instt
3. Public sentiment shortlives
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3. KARACHI Resiliency: Disaster Risk Management
and Climate Change Adaptation
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH?
Achieve at least minimum resilience against multi-hazard disaster risks such as cyclones, heavy rain, urban flooding, earthquakes, industrial accidents, fire, terrorism
Protection of life, property, and infrastructure through preventive measures and response capability
SUCCESSES & LESSONS
ROADBLOCKS
KNOWLEDGE GAPS
New storm water drainage system – drains cleaned and widened
New fire engines and snorkels for high rise bldgs
Introduction of 1339 numbers (CCIS)
Installed CCTV cameras
Working to update building codes
Established DDMA
Unplanned development
Large number of informal settlements, located in hazard-prone areas
Limited will and financing for focus on resilience
Mass awareness lacking
No public announcement system through TV, radio, social media in event of disaster
What are best and cheap investments for building multi-hazard resistance for a coastal mega-city (including building codes)?
What are best ways of introducing ex-post fire safety and other disaster resilience in buildings?
Risk financing

4. Kathmandu Valley Resiliency: Disaster Risk Management
and Climate Change Adaptation
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH?
Kathmandu Valley faces high seismic risk
Objectives
Resilient planning (seismic risk assessment)
Retrofitting of public buildings (schools, hospitals)
Enforcement of National Building Code
Awareness raising and capacity building of masons,
building designers, communities, and local bodies
SUCCESSES & LESSONS
ROADBLOCKS
KNOWLEDGE GAPS
Safer Building practices interalia among through trained masons
Raised community awareness interalia by observing Earthquake Safety Day across the country
Sophisticated nature of Building Code
Lack of risk sensitive land use planning
Weak capacity of local bodies
Lack of DRM Authority to coordinate sectoral efforts
What should be the role of KVDA?
How to institutionalize DRM in local body plans vis-à-vis in urban regeneration?
How to make historic buildings and public infrastructures resilient?
How to have an effective monitoring system on building code?

5. Resiliency: Disaster Risk Management
HO CHI MINH CITY
Resiliency: Disaster Risk Management
and Climate Change Adaptation
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH?
Resolving all the flooding areas in central catchment zone
Reducing 70% the flooding area cause by rain and 50% floodding areas cause by high tide in the rest of the city
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SUCCESSES & LESSONS
ROADBLOCKS
KNOWLEDGE GAPS
Completing
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Lack of Institutional frame work
Shortage of funding
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6. MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE
MEXICO CITY
CLIMATE CHANGE
MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE
Create a process for orderly urban growth
Reduce car-dependency
Increase bike use
Consolidate the Bus Rapid Transit System: Metrobus
Integrate mobility system
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ACHIEVEMENTS
OBSTACLES
CHALLENGES
Reduction in transportation emissions: 5, 516, 318 CO2 tons
Ecobici has 275 stations y 4,000 bikes, 73,000 users making 27,000 daily trips.
Metrobus line construcion 1, 2, 3 & 4
Traffic Safety Education for new options of sustainable transportation
Support the car industry to create electric vehicles

7. Rio de Janeiro Resiliency: Disaster Risk Management
and Climate Change Adaptation
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH?
Goal 1 - Re-vegetation of preserved areas of headlands and shores of water bodies (millions of seedlings).
Goal 2 - Prevention and alert of climatic and natural accidents.
Goal 3 - Mapping of flood prone area due to rising sea level – risk assessment
SUCCESSES & LESSONS
ROADBLOCKS
KNOWLEDGE GAPS
Emergency action plan for natural disasters.
Zoning of risk areas for municipalities (Susceptibility to erosion and flooding).
Creation of conservation areas in wetlands and the Atlantic Forest.
Various actors involved (coordination).
Difficulty performing emergency works due to excessive bureaucracy.
Slowness in the process of reforestation due to difficulty of obtaining supplies.
Hydrological forecasts that reflect the new dynamics of rainfall;
Impact of climate on mass movement of relief along the Atlantic coast.
Urbanization dynamics (growth) of the city.

8. Resiliency: Disaster Risk Management
Accra Metropolitan Assembly
Resiliency: Disaster Risk Management
and Climate Change Adaptation
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH?
To reduce flooding in Accra
To construct storm drain in Accra
Rehabilitate of KLERP (Conti)
Sensitize community members on environmental management
Control fire outbreak
Ensure structural integrity of all building projects
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SUCCESSES & LESSONS
ROADBLOCKS
KNOWLEDGE GAPS
Resettling of disaster victims
Distribution of relief items to disaster victims
Sensitization on disaster management
Construction of Storm Drains
Inadequate Funding
Inadequate relief items
Poor Attitude towards sanitation by Community Members
Sought funding from development Partners
Sought expertise from United Nations

9. Resiliency: Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation
DAE ES SALAAM
Resiliency: Disaster Risk Management
and Climate Change Adaptation
Improve Environment /tree planting, mangrove reforestation, land for city parks, Improved cook stove projects, methane flaring, mass transport, building standards
Improve social and economic activities/Education
Combating climate change to leave the community more secure and prosperous than before / Increase capital investment in Infrastructure, river trainings, upgrading of unplanned settlements
SUCCESSES & LESSONS
ROADBLOCKS
KNOWLEDGE GAPS
Good early warning system /media very important tool
Twinning engagement in climate related activities / technology transfer
We are currently developing a DRR strategic plan / You need to do it yourself
need to conduct risk assessment
Need to raise awareness
Integrate climate change and DRM
4 National and International Expertise and resources
lack of adequate financial resources
lack of awareness among stakeholders
climate change is the least among priorities
poverty

10. NAIROBI METRO Resiliency: Disaster Risk Management
and Climate Change Adaptation
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH?
A safe, resilient & more sustainable metropolitan region
Establishment of Institutional, Policy & Legal frameworks to manage disaster risks & disasters
Consolidate fire & rescue services within the region
Delineation of high risk regions for safe developments.
Undertaking M&E as a means of response, and using lessons learnt from past disaster audits to take preventive measures to mitigate against negative impacts
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SUCCESSES & LESSONS
ROADBLOCKS
KNOWLEDGE GAPS
Policy on disaster management
Study on disaster preparedness &response systems – on going
Purchase of fire fighting equipments
Study on storm water drainage – on going
Resettlement of people in living in vulnerable areas
Skilled manpower, Inadequate equipments
Financial resources
Legal framework
Availability of real time information.

11. METRO CITY NAME Disaster Risk Management in A.A
WHAT GOALS A.A TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH?
Reduce vulnerability to natural
Hazards( flood, land slide& earth quake)
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LESSONS in the past plan
Proposed solutions
KNOWLEDGE GAPS
Low attention for risk management .
Lands for flood control pond are not are not réserved.
River Banks protection for horticulture Is not practice
No Independent responsable institution
Settlements are common on flood, landslide and earthquake prone areas.
Develop specific regulation on hazard management
Develop and implement sustainable storm water management and transport systems.
Identify vulnerable areas
Control developments on
Vulnerable areas
No skill in risk prone areas
Technology system