Developing disaster-risk resilience in cities: Training module for urban local bodies, including contexts of climate risk and children’s resilience
This training toolkit has been developed by Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) with technical and financial assistance of UNICEF. GEAG has extensive working experience on urban climate and disaster risk resilience. The aim of the toolkit is to provide a practical action guide to the city level stakeholders describing the various concepts, frameworks, methodologies and actions for building urban risk resilience.
This capacity building toolkit is designed primarily for local government leaders viz. Urban Local Bodies and policy makers to support public policy, decision making and organizations implementing disaster risk reduction and resilience activities in cities. It offers practical guidance to understand urban vulnerabilities and its key drivers, development-resilience linkages and take appropriate actions to minimize the disaster risks and losses.
The toolkit caters to the need for better access to information, knowledge, capacities and tools to effectively deal with disaster risk and extreme climate events. It provides an overview of key strategies and actions needed to build resilience to disasters, as part of an overall strategy to achieve sustainable development. Each city and local government will determine how these actions apply to their own context and capacities. The toolkit contains three modules for a five-day course with interactive learning activities, tools and case studies to support the overall capacity development framework.
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