prevention,
preparedness,
response to
natural
and man-made
disasters
‫للوقاية‬
‫من الكوارث الطبيعية‬
‫والناتجــة عـن النشـاط البشــري‬
‫واالستعـــداد‬
‫واالستجــابة لهــا‬
prévention,
préparation,
réponse
aux désastres
naturels et
humains
11th PPRD South “prevention and preparedness”
workshop for staff-level officials
“Increasing disaster resilience in urban settings”
Lisbon, Portugal
15-16 October 2012
Agenda
Day 1: Monday, 15 October 2012
Introduction
08:30 - 09:00
Registration of participants
09:00 - 09:15
Opening address
Filipe Lobo D’Ávila, Secretary of State, Portugal
09:15 - 09:30
Welcome speech
Arnaldo Cruz, Director General, National Authority for Civil Protection, Portugal
09:30 - 10:00
Opening remarks by co-organisers incl. reference to the International Day for
Disaster Risk Reduction
Pierluigi Soddu, PPRD South Executive Director
Paola Albrito, Head, UNISDR Regional Office for Europe
Workshop agenda and introduction of participants and workshop facilitators
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Block 1: Setting the scene: urban risk and disaster risk reduction
10:30 - 11:30
Urban risk and disaster resilience in the urbanized world
Facilitated by Camillo Boano, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies and
Disaster Risk Reduction, University College of London (UK)
Followed by debate
11:30 - 12:30
Introduction to the World Disaster Reduction Campaign “My City is Getting Ready”
and reminder of some basic principles of DRR “what are we talking about?”
Facilitated by Lars Bernd, Regional Programme Officer, UNISDR - The United
Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Arab States (Egypt)
Followed by Q&A
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
Training workshop “Increasing disaster resilience in urban settings”
Block 2: Experiences from the Euro-Mediterranean region on addressing urban risk and
building urban resilience
14:00 - 14:15
Introduction
Facilitated by Lars Bernd, UNISDR and Antonio Barbera, PPRD South
14:15 - 14:45
Good practice in addressing urban risk: Tevragh-Zeina (Nouakchott), Mauritania
Guest speaker: Mayor Fatimetou Mint Abdel Malick
14:45 - 15:15
Good practice in addressing urban risk: presentation by city official from an IPA
Partner Country (TBD by UNISDR Europe, Tirana Municipality?)
15:15 - 15:45
Good practice of civil protection involvement in building urban resilience:
presentation by civil protection authority from IPA (Albania TBC)
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee break and and walk around posters prepared by cities prior to workshop on
their urban risk (TBD)
16:15 - 16:45
Good practice of civil protection involvement in building urban resilience:
presentation by civil protection authority from ENPI South (Algeria TBC)
16:45 - 17:15
Plenary discussions
Facilitated by Camillo Boano
17:15 - 17:30
Wrap-up on main learning points of Day 1
UNISDR Paola Albrito
19:00 - 20:00
Welcome cocktail (TBC)
Day 2: Tuesday, 16 October 2012
9:00 - 9:15
Introduction
Camillo Boano
Block 3: Building urban resilience: introduction to tools and methodologies
9:15 - 09:45
The Mayor’s Handbook: How to Make Cites More Resilient
How to implement the Ten Essentials for Making cities resilient
Presentation by Lars Bernd
09:45 - 10:30
Other tools and methodologies for building urban disaster resilience
Presentation by Camillo Boano
Followed by Q&A
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Block 4: Monitoring local progress in reinforcing urban disaster resilience
11:00 - 11:45
Implementation of HFA at the local level: introduction to the Local Government
Self-Assessment Tool on progress in implementing the Campaign’s 10 Essentials
Facilitated by Lars Bernd
Mr. Khaled Abuasheh, Abuaisheh, Head of Disaster Risk Reduction Unit, Aqaba
Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA), Jordan
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Training workshop “Increasing disaster resilience in urban settings”
Followed by Q&A
Block 5: Institutional challenges and practical concerns
11:45 - 12:30
Facilitated discussion on: challenges and opportunities at city/local level to
advance DRR; how to strengthen national-local and local-local coordination on
DRR, incl. between national disaster management authorities and cities; how
governments, national disaster management authorities, UN, PPRD South and
other sectors support local governments’ efforts and capacities?; concerns and
prioritization
Facilitated by Camillo Boano
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
How to better support local action to create resilient communities through
international Strategies: Plenary discussion on the post-2015 framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction – Local Perspectives
Facilitated by Lars Bernd
14:45 - 15:15
Way forward and conclusions of the workshop, “how to better address urban
disaster resilience in the future, including in post-2015 framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction
Facilitated by Camillo Boano, PPRD South, Lars Bernd
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