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Essential 1: Organize for Disaster Resilience
Create a robust organizational framework with strong leadership and clear lines of coordination, responsibilities, communication, information sharing, policies for risk reduction, and strategies that integrate disaster risk considerations across the city's vision or strategic plan.
Why It Matters?
Establishing an organized structure is crucial to effectively tackle urban resilience issues arising from natural hazards. This involves fostering strong leadership, defining roles clearly, setting up effective coordination mechanisms, mntning open channels of communication, disseminating pertinent information widely, and implementing comprehensive risk reduction strategies and policies.
Essential 2: Identify, Understand, and Utilize Risk Scenarios
Mntn updated data on potential disasters and vulnerabilities within the city. Prepare risk assessments using participatory methodologies as a foundation for guiding urban development planning and setting long-term goals.
Why It Matters?
Gning insight into likely scenarios of disaster risks based on an understanding of multiple hazards, geographical exposure, economic conditions, and vulnerabilities allows for informed decision-making during current and future investments. This knowledge can enhance resilience through strategic urban planning.
Essential 3: Strengthen Financial Capacity for Resilience
Conduct a financial analysis to understand the city's economic losses from disasters. Identify and establish mechanisms that support and facilitate resilient actions with funding.
Why It Matters?
Knowing the financial impact of disasters is essential for supporting resilience activities and ensuring resources are avlable for response and recovery measures, thus fortifying urban systems agnst future risks.
Essential 4: Pursue Resilient Urban Development and Design
Carry out risk-informed planning and development based on current or updated risk assessments with a particular focus on vulnerable groups. Implement and enforce building regulations that comply with potential risks.
Why It Matters?
Adopting resilient urban practices enhances risk reduction while facilitating equitable sustnable development across communities. Incorporating participatory processes in planning ensures the needs of all community members, particularly those who are most vulnerable, are met.
Essential 5: Safeguard Natural Buffers to Boost Protective Functions of Natural Ecosystems
Identify and protect natural ecosystems both within and beyond city boundaries while monitoring their protective functions as natural barriers. Use these ecosystems for enhancing urban resilience strategies.
Why It Matters?
Elevating the resilience of natural buffers can significantly contribute to mitigating risks from disasters caused by natural hazards, thereby safeguarding communities agnst potential impacts.
Essential 6: Ensure Infrastructure Resilience
Evaluate critical infrastructure's capacity and adequacy; create or update plans for protection, modernization, mntenance. Where needed, develop protective, risk-mitigating infrastructure.
Why It Matters?
Sufficiently mntned infrastructure is vital to delivering essential services, responding to disasters promptly and efficiently, and minimizing the creation of risks from natural hazards and the effects of climate change.
Essential 7: Increase Emergency Preparedness and Response
Develop effective disaster response plans that include contingency measures, install or connect with early warning systems, and enhance emergency management capabilities.
Why It Matters?
Well-prepared and responsive systems save lives and property during disasters. Adequate preparation and implementation of early warning mechanisms allow sufficient time for people to take action, reducing injuries and damage caused by natural disasters.
Essential 8: Expedite Recovery and Build Back Better
Establish strategies that align with long-term planning goals for post-disaster recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction efforts. These should lead to an improved city environment and enhanced resilience in the affected community.
Why It Matters?
Coordinating post-disaster actions with long-term development plans ensures a better future for the city by rebuilding damaged infrastructure, restoring the economy, empowering citizens to recover their lives, homes, and livelihoods. This period also offers opportunities to learn from past experiences to develop smarter rebuilding and urban planning strategies.
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