She cited the work of the National Resilience Council (NRC) in adapting a localized Scorecard from the Disaster Resilience Scorecard developed for UNISDR’s 4,000 strong Making Cities Resilient Campaign.

“We have with us today local government representatives from seven cities which have been using it and I look forward to hearing more about how it is aiding their efforts to reduce disaster risk,” Ms. Mizutori said. 

Local government representatives were participating in Top Leaders Forum for the first time.  These included Gov. Albert Garcia of Bataan Province, Mayor John Bongat of Naga City, Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco of Zamboanga City, Mayor Oscar Moreno of Cagayan De Oro, Mayor Madelaine Alfelor of Iriga City, and Mayor Richard Gomez of Ormoc City who gave an insight into progress on tackling urban risk.

Dale Sands, co-chair ARISE, also attended the Top Leaders Forum which he described as “a unique gathering of public and private sector decision makers to further progress disaster risk reduction in the Philippines.”

Mr. Sands said: “So many excellent presentations were delivered of progress made and good practices to be shared in both the public sector and the private sector, and in building public/private sector partnerships such as the National Resilience Council, supported by ARISE Philippines."

The meeting was also attended by Secretary Delfin Lorenzana of the Department of National Defense and  co-chair of NRC representing Government, Senator Loren Legarda, a well-known advocate for disaster risk reduction and Dr Weisen Li of APEC Emergency Preparedness Capacity Building Center, Taiwan. 

Date:

6 Dec 2018

Sources:

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)

Themes:

Advocacy & Media, Private Sector

Regions:

Asia