Session Summary

Session three highlighted collaboration – local, national and international – as a cornerstone of resilience, together with community engagement and shared understandings of risk management. This perspective was re-iterated in the Sendai Framework, which employs pre-emptive risk-reduction perspectives to paint resilience as a development issue requiring government and all-of-society participation. Such perspectives focus capacity-building across civil society, introducing levels of participation with the potential to effect paradigm changes in resilience policy development. Panelists returned again to finance, noting the World Bank’s leveraging of finance through facilitation of multiple stakeholder designs of bankable projects.

"The World Bank has developed and applied new innovative technologies to quickly and cost effectively map existing hazards and risks within an entire city, which would help inform the identification of Government policies and incentives for citizens to invest in resilience – so when a disaster strikes, casualties and affected assets are minimized.”

 

- Dr. Sameh Naguib Wahba, Director, Urban Resilience, World Bank