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MANY city leaders focus on local economic development. With this priority, there are various efforts taken by cities, from the development of areas for tourist destinations, building capacity of local people, to integrating culture into development to support the local economy. These actions are also applied in the Regency of Purwakarta (Indonesia). What unique is …

Regent Anne Ratna Mustika of Purwakarta: Local Economic Development, Fairness for All Read More »

Makati’s Next Level of Disaster Preparedness by “Making Disaster Resilience as a Way of Life” Makati is one of the densely populated cities in Metro Manila of the Phillippines. This city had been affected by hydrometeorological hazards, which caused impactful damage. A total of 90.200 people were left with inundated houses, with 162.977 square kilometres …

Localising Disaster Risk Prevention in Asia Pacific Cities: A Webinar by KLRTC and UCLG ASPAC Read More »

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the cascading nature of risk with more than 500 million confirmed cases and over 6 million confirmed deaths over the course of 2 years. The COVID-19 pandemic has also exposed the vulnerability and inequity in our society and our associated system, such as how health services system has irrefutably worsened. …

Learning from COVID-19: Social and Economic Recovery for All Read More »

The COP26 held last November has produced a pessimistic outcome, namely hope for the achievement of sustainable development and overall resilience. This shows howreal action planning is needed. Moreover, the increasing impact of the climate emergency that almost violates the 1.5 C bar limit indicates that there is a need to improve on Disaster Risk …

Strengthening Disaster and Climate Risk Governance Tips Read More »

The undeniability of climate impacts requires us to really recalibrate the way we work and make sense of existing norms. According to the recent IPCC  reports and the Global Assessment Report, it was made clear that climate impacts will further intensify. That itself is a risk and for better risk reduction, there is a need …

Are You Ready for COP 27?- Scaling Up Joint Action in Comprehensive Disaster and Climate Risk Management at the GPDRR 2022 Read More »

The COVID-19 pandemic was so unprecedented that national and local governments had to rethink the entirety of their strategies in handling the impacts of disasters. It has also revealed how the prevention of disasters have been somewhat of a second-thought, followed by building overall resilience. At the same time, we are still hit by the …

How Financing Disaster Risk Reduction and Prevention Requires a ‘Think Resilience’ Approach Read More »

MAYOR Donya Tesoro of San Manuel is elected in 2019 as the youngest mayor. Throughout her leadership, Mayor Donya Tesoro expressed her passion and care for local people in various programmes implemented in San Manuel. San Manuel Social Pension Programme Mayor Donya shared her activity on social media, such as giving out a social pension …

Mayor Donya Tesoro: Care-Giver Leader Read More »