UNITAR together with the Making Cities Resilient programme of UNISDR are pleased to offer an e-learning course "Urban Risk Reduction: Developing and Implementing Resilience Action Plans for Cities" that aims to strengthen the capacities of government officials, especially those at the local level, and disaster management professionals to design and implement plans and programmes that reduce disaster risk and enhance urban resilience.

The course is open to city and local government officials, disaster management professionals, and representatives from academic and training institutions working on disaster risk reduction. At the end of the course participants should be able to:

  • Identify risk reduction concepts, principles and approaches
  • Recognize current challenges and opportunities on risk reduction
  • Describe the Making Cities Resilient Campaign 10 essentials and how to implement them at the local level Assess risk situation in their cities
  • Develop a safe and resilient country/city action plan
  • Describe the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), its progress and possible elements for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

To apply please visit - http://www.unitar.org/event/urbanrisk

Duration of event: 10 weeks (06 Apr - 07 Jun 2015 )

Fee: No fee

Deadline for application: 27 March 2015

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