Making Cities Resilient: Summary for Policymakers - A Global Snapshot of How Local Governments Reduce Disaster Risk – April 2013

The purpose of this policy brief is to inform local policy makers about the current trends and activities taking place in selected cities that have signed up to the Making Cities Resilient Campaign, which are striving to improve their resilience, and to outline good practices, challenges and solutions to help inform local governments’ future actions. The content draws largely on the conclusions from the “Making Cities Resilient Report 2012 – A global
snapshot of how local governments reduce disaster risk”, which was commissioned by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and undertaken by the International Institute for the Environment and
Development (IIED)1. The findings are also based on local government consultations and on the wealth of material that cities involved in the Campaign have self-reported to UNISDR and shared publicly since 2010.