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Question: The 10 essentials for urban resilience:

Answer: 1. Put in place the organization and coordination needed to promote the understanding
and reduction of disaster risk, based on participation of citizens groups and civil society.
Build local alliances. Ensure that all departments understand their role in disaster risk
reduction and preparedness.
2. Assign a budget for disaster risk reduction and provide incentives for homeowners, lowincome families, communities, businesses and the public sector to invest in reducing
the risks they face.
3. Maintain up-to-date data on hazards and vulnerabilities. Prepare risk assessments, to
be used as the basis for urban development plans and decisions, and ensure that this
information and the plans for your city’s resilience are made readily available to the
public and are fully discussed with them.
4. Invest in and maintain critical infrastructure which reduces risk, such as flood drainage,
adjusted where needed to cope with climate change.
5. Assess the safety of all schools and health facilities and upgrade them, as necessary.
6. Apply and enforce realistic risk-compliant building regulations and land use planning
principles. Identify safe land for low-income citizens and upgrade informal settlements,
wherever feasible.
7. Ensure that education programmes and training on disaster risk reduction are in place
in schools and local communities.
8. Protect ecosystems and natural buffers to mitigate the impact of floods, storm surges
and other hazards to which your city may be vulnerable. Adapt to climate change by
building on good risk reduction practices.
9. Install early warning systems and emergency management capacities in your city and
hold regular public preparedness drills.
10. After any disaster, ensure that the needs of the affected populations are placed at the
centre of reconstruction, with support for those populations and their community
organizations in designing and helping to implement responses, including rebuilding
homes and livelihoods

(Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (2012), chap. 4., 25 Mar 2021)

Source Link: https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wess/wess_current/wess2013/Chapter3.pdf