Biography
Jose Manuel Corral has been the Mayor of Santa Fe City in Argentina since December 2011. After taking the office, Mr. Corral decided to continue and improve actions in regard to the integrated risk management strategy, such as incorporating DRR in the urban development plan, as well as promote a culture of disaster prevention. These are policies that earned Santa Fe the recognition as a "model city" of the Making Cities Resilient in 2011 and the "Sasakawa" UN Award that same year.
Comprehensive prevention of disaster is one of key issues of a city with the particular characteristics like Santa Fe, which is surrounded by rivers expanding over the years and suffered the most tragic floods in its history in 2003 and 2007.
Jose Corral’s plan is to work toward building a city ready for future risks. This is one aspect of Santa Fe’s Development Plan 2020.
A highlight is the comprehensive risk management that helps to shape a coherent collaborative effort across all parts of the government. This has allowed for 10 essentials of the campaign to advance in urban planning strategies, as well as institutional construction and consolidation.
Campaign Activities
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March 2012 - Santiago de Chile: Participating as lecturer on urban policies to reduce risk in the 6th Latin American Congress of Cities and Local Authorities.
- Apr 2012 - Chile: International Seminar on post-disaster good practice.
- July 2012 - Santa Fe: Opening remarks of the Second Congress of Cities Network, entitled "Regionalization and Decentralization in building Good Governance" organized by the Government of the Province of Santa Fe.
- October 2012 - Montevideo: Cities workshop of the Southern Cone and national launch of the Global Campaign "Making Cities Resilient".
- October 2012 - Santa Fe: Workshop on "Risk management in the G8 Mayors’ Meeting", as an initiative of the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) and RAP Foundation.
- November 2012 - Santiago de Chile: Third Meeting of the Global Platform for DRR.
- April 2013 - Santa Fe: Conference "Society, communication and risks. Reflections on 10 years of Santa Fe’s floods". Opening the conference and opening of the exhibition "Tales of the flood. The voices of the media. "
- May 2013 - Geneva: Fourth Meeting of the Global Platform for DRR.
- May 2013 - Santa Fe: Visit City Council Speaker Plate in order to collect experiences on Risk Management in the city.
- July 2013 - Santa Fe: Exchange program on the integration of risk management and adaptation to climate change in the development process at the local level, organized by the Office for the Americas of the UNIDSR.
- September 2013 - Mexico: Participating and delivering lecture as the only mayor invited by the UN to the "International Seminar on Disaster Risk Management".
- September 2013 - Santa Fe: Participating and delivering an opening remarks for the first International Conference on Urban Management and Environment- One of the discussion panels-axis was building resilient cities, with the participation of members of the Office for the Americas of the UNIDSR.
- November 2013 - Porto Alegre (Brazil): Exhibition on actions and strategies in the area of water risk in the seminar entitled "Building Resilient Public Spaces". The activity was held in the framework of the 18th Summit of the Mercocities Network.