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www.unisdr.org/campaign

Making LGUs Resilient: My Province is Getting Ready!

Jerry VelasquezUNISDR secretariat (Regional Office Bangkok)

LGU SummitLegazpi City, Albay, Philippines, 4-6 November 2010

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Philippines - Highly Susceptible to Disasters

• Archipelago, composed of 7,100 islands with low lying areas

• Highly susceptible to sea level rise

• Among longest coastlines in the world with 32,400 kms (susceptible to storm surges)

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From a report funded by Sweden and Canada released in January 2009

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List of Vulnerable Provinces in the Philippines

VUL: Climate change vulnerability index; RANK: Rank of climate change vulnerability index (across SEA); CHAZ: Multiple climate hazard index; SENS: Sensitivity index; ADAP: Index of inverse adaptive capacity; PDEN: Population density in 2000 (population/km2); PROT: Protected area (% of total area); POP: population (thousand); INC: per capita income in 2005 (US$PPP); POV: Poverty incidence; HDI: Human Development Index. Color coding: High vulnerability: red bold; moderate vulnerability: black bold; mild vulnerability: black.

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fromASEAN Disaster Risk Management Initiative

(ASEAN DRMI) Synthesis Report on Ten ASEAN Countries

Disaster Risks Assessment

undertaken by UNISDR, World Bank and Risk Management Solutions for ASEAN

presented to ASEAN last week in Korea

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Socio-economic impacts and trends

We experience more storms than other hazards and they cause the most number of deaths

The number of disaster events is increasing but the total number of deaths are decreasing

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Socio-economic impacts and trends

All hazards affect a large number of population

The number of affected population is slightly increasing

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Socio-economic impacts and trends

Floods and storms cause the most economic damage, followed by forest fires

Economic damage is increasing rapidly (18 times more since 1970)

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The 20-year return period (an event with 5 per cent probability of exceedance) loss for all natural hazards is $1.208 billion (0.37 per cent of GDP PPP), while the 200-year return period (an event with 0.5 per cent probability of exceedance, generally corresponds to a catastrophic event) loss is $2.14 billion (0.66 per cent of GDP PPP).

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From the Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2010, released last week in Korea by the United Nations (ESCAP and UNISDR)

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For 20 months return period

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Do you want similar but more detailed analysis for your province?

• We cant do more without provincial level data on disaster damage and losses

• Its available in your provinces, its just not put in a database and analyzed

• UNDP and UNISDR can offer technical support through a system called “DesInventar”

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2010 – 2011 World Disaster Reduction Campaign

Making LGUs Resilient: My Province is Getting Ready!

Objective

Achieve resilient, sustainable local communities through actions taken by local government units to reduce disaster risk

Know More

Invest Wisely

Build More Safely

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2010 – 2011

Making LGUs Resilient: My Province is Getting Ready!

Global Launch: 30 May 2010, Bonn, Germany

Governors and Mayors from all regions symbolically signed up to the 10 campaign essentials

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Sign up to the: Ten-Point Checklist

- Essentials for Making LGUs

Resilient

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Ten-Point Checklist - Essentials for Making LGUs Resilient

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1. Put in place organization & coordination to clarify everyone’s roles & responsibilities.

2. Assign a budget & provide incentives for homeowners, low-income families, private sector to invest in risk reduction.

3. Update data on hazards & vulnerabilities, prepare & share risk assessments.

4. Invest in & maintain critical infrastructure, such as storm drainage.

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5. Assess the safety of all schools and health facilities & upgrade these as necessary.

One Million Safe Schools and Hospitals Pledging Initiative http://www.safe-schools-hospitals.net

The campaign urges individuals or organizations to make a commitment to do specific actions on any of the three components that could make schools and hospitals safer before a disaster:

Public awareness,

Emergency and disaster preparedness, and

Disaster risk reduction

To make people aware about safe schools and hospitals To be prepared in case of emergencies and disasters To contribute time, effort or resources to make schools and hospitals safer

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6. Enforce risk-compliant building regulations & land use planning principles, identify safe land for low-income citizens.

7. Ensure education programmes & training on disaster risk reduction are in place in schools and local communities.

8. Protect ecosystems & natural buffers to mitigate hazards, adapt to climate change.

9. Install early warning systems & emergency management capacities.

10. After any disaster, ensure that the needs of the affected population are at the centre of reconstruction.

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- Prize Money: US$50,000(Will be shared between the Sasakawa Laureate/s and recipient/s of the Certificates of Distinction and Merit)

- Presented biennially during the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP)

- Next Award Ceremony: Beginning of May 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

- All information available at: http://www.unisdr.org/eng/sasakawa

Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction 2011

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Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction 2011

Who is eligible?

Individuals / institutions that have carried out outstanding and internationally-recognized action that contributes to the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action

Achievements should be linked to the Making LGUs Resilient: My Province Is Getting Ready campaign and address issues of local governance and urban risk

Nomination & Selection Process

Nominations should be submitted to the UNISDR secretariat by 28 February 2011.

An international jury will decide on the Award winners.

The Call for Nominations is now open!

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The provincial government of established an independent and institutionalized disaster risk reduction office with permanent staff. The government decentralized and mainstreamed disaster risk reduction into local governments’ plans and programmes.

Permanent provincial coordinating office for DRR, Albay, Philippines

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Building local capacity- safer homes, Vietnam

A French NGO worked with local governments to promote cyclone-resistant buildings and related awareness-raising activities for local communities. Local Leadership remains now in local governmentsTraining, education, public awareness resulted in safer homes and communitiesLocal government network sharing experience in Vietnam functioning.

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A whole-of-government strategy led by the Government of Bangladesh and implemented by a range of local government and private organizations. Standardized community risk assessment, and helped develop local action plans for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into the work of government authorities. Provides a local funding structure to implement priority actions, motivating local authorities and communities to take part.

Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme, Bangladesh

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Urban Flood Early Warning System, Jakarta, Indonesia

Improved Flood Early Warning System for Jakarta, been a true multi-stakeholder process, involving many local authorities and partners. AIMING TO GET THE WARNING TO COMMUNITY LEVEL, improving existing systemTechnical improvements mean that earlier flood warnings are now possible. Preparedness capacity has been built and streamlined.

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Civil Protection- community projects Acajutla Municipality, El Salvador

•Reducing Vulnerabilities in Ahuachapán and Sonsonate Programme (PRVAS) •Improve collaboration between NGOs, local government authorities and local communities. --strengthening existing Civil Protection Committees and community-based DRR projects:•disaster preparedness training, drills and simulations, small mitigation projects, community awareness raising and support for community action.

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Community Awareness: Serua and Namosi provinces, Fiji

•long-term approach to strengthening local level disaster risk reduction, UNDP Pacific Centre with multiple partners and stakeholders •raised awareness of the links between development and flooding within the planning process, •developed early warning systems, supported communities to assess their vulnerabilities, drawn up plans of action and put those plans into practice. •Provincial Administration of Serua and Namosi provinces were highly committed.

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Thank youUnited Nations, secretariat of the

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

isdr-campaign@un.orgwww.unisdr.org/campaign

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2010 – 2011

Making LGUs Resilient: My Province is Getting Ready!

LGUs commitments were achieved in regional launches and related events in Bonn, Davos, Lima, Delhi and Durban.

Participating LGUs – Role Model LGUs - ChampionsChampions

The following Philippines cities / provinces joined the campaign:

Albay Province, Dagupan City, Dumangas City, Makati City, Pasig City, Saint Bernhard City, San Francisco City.

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Benefits for cities to join the campaign

Participating LGUs will have access to campaign specific information and knowledge: Invitation to policy dialogues, learning workshops, and other campaign-related events at the global and regional level.

Access to "Induction packages" for local governments on urban risk in collaboration with training centres and academia, promoting capacity development and learning opportunities for cities and local governments in each region.

High-visibility media events and communication tools.

UN-Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction 2010-2011, which will prioritize nominations from cities who participate in the Campaign.

Additional resources and opportunities are under negotiation (2011)

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Population Density - The population density map was obtained from the Urban Extent Database (GRUMP version 1) of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University (http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw); the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); the World Bank; and Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT). The data is in geographic coordinates of decimal degrees based on the World Geodetic System spheroid of 1984 (WGS84) in 30- arc-second (1-km) resolution.

Protected Areas - Areas Declared as National/Protected Parks Data on national/protected parks as well as maps were obtained from the Terrestrial Ecoregions GIS Database of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) at http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/data/item1875.html.