The Cross Cutting Capacity Development (3cd) Program is a proposal of the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI) that aims at assisting interested megacities around the world in improving their vision and orientation of Disaster Risk Management and disaster risk reduction. Current practice does not fully consider prevention and mitigation actions in city wide development plans, nor does it on urban planning and land use activities in the local governments. There has been a tendency to focus on the response side of this complex process. For more details see www.earthquakesandmegacities.org .
The Cities of Quezon and Makati, which are two of the 17 cities and municipalities that constitute Metropolitan Manila, agreed to collaborate in a one day workshop to start a partnership process to understand current disaster risk management arrangements in those cities, identify and document examples of sound practice, and learn about their vision regarding disaster risk management.
An initial assessment of DRM organization and delivery, as well as some sound practices had been already identified through a two-parts survey questionnaire designed by EMI and EdM on the second half of 2004.
A first stakeholder workshop took place in Quezon City Hall, and it is expected that the second workshop will be held in Makati City. In addition to the workshop, the 3cd Program Implementation Team (PIT) was able to visit and discuss issues related to the program with officials of different departments in both cities.
Resource collections
- Topics
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience
