For others, changes in political landscape can be challenging. City and national level leadership may change in just four or five years while some of the resilient planning and commitments require decades or longer to come to fruition.

To get around this, Cinthia Borjas, Chief of the Municipal Office of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, emphasizes the importance of institutionalizing structures and plans.

“Local actors at the municipal level may change,” said Borjas, “But institutions remain. [We] are public servants and we owe ourselves to the people.”

Despite the challenges, city representatives recognized and appreciated the structure and guidance of the Campaign and its related tools, including the Scorecard.

“It’s like a golden presentation card with which to knock on doors”, said Borjas. “It shows a planned and organized approach, sustainable and human.”

The Making Cities Resilient and Sustainable initiative is currently in planning for the next phase which will be launched in early 2020.

The twenty model cities of the initiative include: Kampala, Uganda; Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia; Kisumu, Kenya; Yaounde, Cameroon; Praia, Cape Verde; Khartoum, Republic of Sudan; Ismaliya Governorate, Egypt; Nablus, Palestine; Nouakchott, Mauritania; Honiara, Solomon Islands; Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Kathmandu City, Nepal; Dhaka North City Cooperation, Bangladesh; Cilacap Regency, Indonesia; Mawlamyine, Myanmar; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Guayaquil, Ecuador; San Juan de Lurigancho, Peru; Guatemala City, Guatemala; and Santo Domingo Esto, Republica Dominicanna.

Date:

18 Mar 2019

Sources:

UNISDR Office for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction at Incheon (UNISDR ONEA-GETI)

Themes:

Capacity Development, Governance, Disaster Risk Management

Regions:

Africa, Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania