Preparing for Risk in Metro Cities: Chennai Emergency Management Exercise (CEMEx) in August 2011

 In order to make disaster resilient cities, it is important to adopt an integrated approach that takes into account multiple hazards and vulnerabilities for comprehensive assessment, mitigation and preparedness and integrate disaster risk reduction into sustainable urban development goals. Cities and local governments need to get ready, reduce the risks and become resilient to disasters. To strengthen cities’ readiness against floods and other natural hazards, UN/ISDR has launched the ‘Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready’ campaign to raise awareness and urge mayors and local governments to invest more in disaster risk reduction. The campaign addresses issues of local governance and urban risk while drawing upon previous ISDR Campaigns on safer schools and hospitals, as well as on the sustainable urbanizations principles developed in the UN-Habitat World Urban Campaign 2009-2013. ,

Some of these lessons from Chennai are taken by AIDMI to shaping of National School Safety Programme of National Disaster Management Authority in its inception workshop on September 1 to 2, 2011.