How to get involved?
If you are a community group, NGO or other active member of your city or community who wants to commit to and support the Campaign goals, contact your local government and propose a partnership to join the Campaign. Support public outreach activities in your city, projects, plans and any of the areas of the Ten-point checklist of Essentials for Making Cities Resilient. Help us document and disseminate good practice.
> Become a participating city, download the nomination form here!
All participating entities, groups and cities are encouraged to:
- Nominate innovative and good urban risk reduction practice and experience to the "UN-Sasakawa Award on Disaster Reduction" in 2010-2011. Role model and participating cities nominations in the campaign will be a treated as a priority in the award.
- Undertake public activities such as local media outreach, drawing contests, public preparedness drills or exercises, public hearings on risk assessments or other disaster resilient initiatives, during the annual International Disaster Risk Reduction Day, 13 October- or during any other national disaster prevention awareness day designated in commemoration of major disasters.
- Report back to UNISDR and make sure your achievements are recorded in the national reporting process of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action.
This is what you could do if you are a...
- Mayor and Local Government
- Local government association
- National government
- Community association
- UN, international or regional organization, NGO
- Donors
- Private sector
- Academia and professional associations
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How will UNISDR support cities and local governments during the Campaign?
As the coordinator of the Campaign, UNISDR will cater for regional and global partnerships of support for the campaign cities - "Champions", "role model" cities and participants- and UNISDR will in particular provide support to the following activities:
- Organization of policy dialogues, workshops and other Campaign-related events at the global and regional level.
- "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.
- Information and knowledge support.
- High-visibility media events and communication tools.
- The UN-Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction 2010-2011, which will prioritize nominations from cities who participate in the Campaign.
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Shared responsibility:
No specific funding will be provided by UNISDR to sponsor projects and initiatives by cities and local governments as part of the campaign. The cities themselves and partners are expected to support the organization of events, conferences and meetings focusing on the Campaign. Specific proposals, of particular relevance to the campaign objectives, may be considered under exceptional circumstances for funding and on a case by case basis.
UNISDR and campaign partners will cater with national, multi-lateral and bi-lateral development organizations to prioritize projects and funding for urban risk reduction. All such information will be made available on the campaign website.
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