ATTY. VIOLETA SOMERA-SEVA Senior Adviser, Office of the Mayor

Project Technical Adviser, GFDRR C2CSI

Makati City, Philippines

© GFDRR C2C Focal Project Management Office Makati City, Philippines

• Provides linking knowledge and expertise across

the globe

• By pooling of knowledge, research and analysis,

C2C Cooperation enables rethinking of issues,

methods and approaches, and the systematic

dissemination of knowledge to relevant actors

across the countries/cities

Reference: GFDRR South-South Cooperation Programme

Makati City as the Focal City

• Grant Recipient/Project Manager

• Knowledge Source City on

Local-level Emergency

Management

Quito Metropolitan

District

Knowledge Source

City on Risk Sensitive

Land Use Planning

Kathmandu

Metropolitan City

Knowledge Source

City on Public

Awareness Strategies

for DRR

WORLD BANK Grant

Through South-South Cooperation Programme of the Global

Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

Grant amount :

450,000 USD

Counterpart Contribution:

50,000 USD per city

2008

2009 Project Proposal Preparation

Project Inception (October 29-31, 2008)

Partnership Development Workshop in Delhi, India

Overall goal: “Helping our partners to reduce disaster

risks in the cities”

2010

Project Grant Effectivity (March 2010)

DRR City-to-City Sharing Initiative

Makati, Philippines – Quito, Ecuador –Kathmandu, Nepal

2011

Inception Workshop for the Makati Focal PMO (July 2011)

Technical and Administrative Management of the City-to-

City Sharing Initiative Project

2011 Project Implementation Kick-Off with the Engagement of

the Technical Consultants (September 2011)

Disaster Risk Management Specialist – Shefali Lakhina

Emergency Management Specialist – James Buika

Land Use Planning Specialist – Dr. Candido Cabrido, Jr.

Knowledge Management Specialist - Dr. Paz H. Diaz

First Study Visit and Residential Training (November 2011)

Technical Focus: Risk Sensitive Land Use Planning

Hosted by the Metropolitan District of Quito

2012

Second Study Visit and Residential Training (February 2012)

Technical Focus: Public Awareness Campaign and Land

Readjustment and Pooling Techniques

Hosted by Kathmandu Metropolitan City

Third Study Visit and Residential Training (April 2012)

Technical Focus: Emergency Management

Hosted by Makati City

Project Closing Date (March 2013)

Promote knowledge dissemination,

adaptation and innovation, technical

cooperation, resource sharing, and capacity

building among developing countries in

the field of DRM

• Sharing partnership between the three cities

• Competency building and institutional strengthening for DRR

• Knowledge dissemination and scaling up

• Replicable, scalable

mechanism for C2C

knowledge transfer

process

• Enhanced capacities and

technical competencies for

DRR implementation,

monitoring, and

assessment

• Cities as regional training hubs and knowledge

resource centers

Sharing of knowledge, practices and learning through a series

of Study Visits hosted, in turns, by the C2CSI partner cities.

The 5-day study visit was

complemented by another

5-day residential training.

Participants:

•Study Visit: 6- to 7-member

city delegation composed of

city official/s and technical staff

• Residential Training: 2

representatives per visiting city

C2CSI takes guidance from

Five Priorities for Action

agreed under the

international Hyogo

Framework for Action

Topics in the Study Visit Agenda:

Setting the Institutional, Policy and Legal

Context for DRM: HFA Priority for Action 1

Disaster risk information: HFA Priority for

Action 2

Local- and community-based DRM: HFA

Priority for Action 3

Land use planning, building codes, bylaws:

HFA Priority for Action 4

Emergency Management Systems and

mechanisms for preparedness, emergency

response, recovery: HFA Priority for Action 5

Online Peer Community

(private working group while project is on-going) 1.

www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/networks/private/city2city/index.php

Knowledge and Capacities Map:

An interactive flip chart exercise

2.

Identification, Assessment, and Mapping of Areas of Progress and Challenges in the host

city across the 10 Essentials of the UNISDR Making Cities Resilient Campaign

Solutions Lab:

A Facilitated Group Exercise for a Do-It-Together Problem Solving

3.

Identification of Areas for Peer Collaboration with the corresponding post study

visit follow-up exchanges and sharing of knowledge and reference materials.

Discussion of Expected City Outputs with the corresponding group works.

* This collaborative experience will be recorded as a ‘living’ case study to showcase the

benefits of peer exchanges and learning.

GFDRR

C2CSI

Model

Templates

Sound

Practices

Peer

Collaboration

Roster of

Resource

Persons

Model Template on

Risk-Sensitive Land

Use Plan

1.

Model Template

on Risk-Sensitive

Zoning Ordinance

2.

Model Template on Basic Plan

of the Emergency Operations

Plan

3.

Model Template on Public Awareness Campaign

Plan for DRR 4.

Model Template on

Disaster Risk Management

Profile

5.

Sound Practices 6.

• GIS ATLAS

• RESETTLEMENT PROJECT

• LAND POOLING PROJECT

• URBAN REGENERATION INITIATIVE

• WATER WELLS AND OPEN SPACES PROJECT

• COMMUNITY + NGO PARTICIPATION

• MAKATI C3: EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER

• DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL

• INTEGRATING MOBILITY POLICIES INTO LAND USE PLANNING

• STAKEHOLDERS AS CHAMPIONS FOR DRR

Peer Collaboration 7.

On Land Use and Disaster Risk

Information

GIS ATLAS

Basis: Quito’s GIS Atlas as an

identified sound practice for

replication

On Building Code

COMMON CHECKLIST

IN DEVELOPING

GUIDELINES ON

BUILDING CODE

ENFORCEMENT

Basis: Building Code enforcement as an

identified challenge for Quito and

Kathmandu

On Emergency Management

GUIDANCE NOTE IN CREATING COMMUNITY

EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS

Basis: CERT as a vital community-based unit for effective emergency management

Roster of Resource Persons 8.

Initial list of enlisted resource persons uploaded in the

preventionweb (as of 27 April 2012)

* on-going enlistment

COMMUNICATION

BARRIER

CONTINUITY

(CHANGE IN POLITICAL

LEADERSHIP)

CUSTOMIZATION

OF LEARNINGS TO

SUIT LOCAL

CONDITIONS

ONLINE PRIVATE

COMMUNITY, USE OF

MODERN TECHNOLOGY,

BROADENING NETWORKS

PERMANENCE OF FOCAL

COORDINATORS AND

TECHNICAL STAFF

INTEGRATION OF BEST

PRACTICES OF THE THREE

CITIES WITH THE

ASSISTANCE OF

CONSULTANTS

1. Project was truly a C2C sharing initiative. This was achieved. Very much

information intensive.

2. The activity of collecting all this information per city is a monumental task

that creates an important contribution for development of Sound DRM

Practices database for all three cities. It truly is a benchmark project that can

be and should be replicated elsewhere.

3. Project set forth some innovative tools & exercises that have helped cities to

organize and document both their capacities as well as their gaps.

4. The Project Learning Experience: Unique opportunity to Learn from all

three cities.

5. Quito is at the moment of bringing policies down to actions for which c2c is

already contributing through the experiences as well as the tools learned.

6. The C2C has opened a lot of doors for Kathmandu Metropolitan City to

engage in EM projects.

CITYNET’s C2C Award

Cooperation Category

Awarded to the Makati City during the 25th Anniversary

Celebration of CITYNET last 10 July 2012 at Surabaya,

Indonesia

We are on our way to making our cities as knowledge cities

in DRRM.

This City-to-City initiative helps the three cities realize their

potentials to become DRR champions with their numerous

initiatives that were shared throughout the less than a year

project implementation.

Now, the time has come for Makati, Quito and Kathmandu

to accept greater responsibility in sharing with other cities

what they have learned and gained from this experience and

eventually drive the whole world towards the path of

disaster resilience.

© GFDRR C2C Focal Project Management Officer Makati City, Philippines