Project: CDRI Capacity Building Programme

The programme will help city government officials become further aware and be able to communicate more easily on the current and potential future risks which their cities face. It will help in the development of comprehensive plans to address these issues.

Distance learning methodologies used in the programme will ensure that local government officials are able to get continued support and feedback, over the long term with more reasonable expenditure.

The CDRI Capacity-building Programme is divided into 3 stages:

Stage 1: Capacity-building of city government officials, to complete a CDRI Questionnaire for the creation of overall resilience mapping

Stage 2: Training and Action Workshop, to design a self-evaluation matrix and to initiate Climate Action Planning

Stage 3: Initiating development of the Climate Action Planning (CAP) and implementation process

This programme uses a combination of face-to-face meetings, field trips, and Internet-based self-study including video conferencing. Champion cities will be selected in this process, under the scheme of UNISDR Campaign 2010-2011 on urban risk and resilient cities.

Organised by: CITYNET, Kyoto University (GCOE), Tokyo Development Learning Center, SEEDS, UNISDR, RTF-URR