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SUMMARY OF THE TWO DAY WORKSHOP
Day 1.
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Salvano
Signing of MoU between ISDR and CADS
Presentations:
Part 1: Local Governments presentations from Albay, The Philppines; South Africa; Pune,India and Cataluna, Spain. The presentation higlighted the good practices of their offices, despite the hazards and vulnerabilities. (See power point presentations)
Part 2: Presentations from the UN Agencies, UNOSAT, UNDP and ILO and Provention. They highligheted their programs and services to the Local governments. (See powerpoint presentation
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Day 1.
Part 3: Presentation of various global, regional and national
Mechanism for networking (See presentation).
Introduction of the objectives, agenda, schedule, logistical arrangements.
Part 4. Workshops: Refer to guideline in the agenda: (Summary of workshop results, Day 1, and summary of Day 2, below and Summary of Evaluation by participants.
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INPUTS ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION BASED ON THE PRESENTATIONS
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Hazards
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Vulnerabilities
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Readiness & Capacity
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If capacity (and readiness) is insufficient
If vulnerabilities are too great
If the scale of hazard is too big
Then, the risk is too high, emergencies may not be managed locally, the communities may not cope,
DISASTER will occur.
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•DEVELOP CAPACITY AND INCREASE READINESS
•REDUCE VULNERABILITIES
•UNDERSTAND HAZARDS
=REDUCE DISASTER RISKS
THEN HAZARDS CAN BE MANAGED LOCALLY AND DISASTERS WILL NOT OCCUR
DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
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1. Do we Need It?
Overwhelmingly YES, we need it.
Purpose, Objectives, Added Value
A global venue for open forum of local government issues, solutions and learning
GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
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1. To provide opportunities for building capacity of LG & share experiences (raising awareness, learning opportunities, training, knowledge sharing, technology information, research, workshops seminars)
2. Global level advocacy group
3. Developing mechanism for taking LG learning to marketplace
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5. Promote capacity development
6. To Promote platform for climate change impact at local level
GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
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Suggested mechanism:
• Organize a small advisory group to push forward the objectives of the LGA
• Secretariat support:
---Hosting web based discussion
---Data base hosting or virtual library
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--Facilitate discussion through other means such as teleconferences
--Support the needs of the Advisory group as much as possible and able
--Continue the initiation of the organizing of the Advisory group
--continue communicating with this group
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Work Plan till June 2009
Publication of good practices –solicit articles, choose and compile.
Articles presented here should be posted to the web
Meeting with existing organizations to gather suggestions
Organize of the Advisory Group before the Advisory group based on Selection criteria that must be developed through consultation
DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
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HEY, DON’T PANIC
U CAN DO IT
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LETS MOVE FORWARD DESPITE THE ODDS
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SUSTAINABILITY How disaster resilient & resistant our communities are?
How GOOD does it LAST?