Highlights

Special Session: Enhanced Resilience of the Built Environment and Infrastructure

Wednesday, 12th February, 14.00-16.00. Hall 4, Room D.

It will provide a platform for fostering global partnerships and innovative financial platforms on urban resilience. Examples of resilience strategies and innovative urban resilience tools such as UN-Habitat’s City Resilience Profiling Tool and CityRap, with cities of Dakar (Senegal), Teresina (Brazil) and stakeholders.

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Presentation of Urban Resilience Film

Sunday, 9th February, from 18.00, Urban Cinema.

Short documentary exploring resilience building in three different cities across the globe: Maputo, Asunción and Barcelona. Interviews and images demonstrate the impact of risk on local urban populations and showcase the initiatives taken by pro-active local governments to protect life, infrastructure and functionality. Produced by OAK Stories in collaboration with UN-Habitat.

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Other sessions

Crisis Prevention and Response in cities: it’s time to take a whole of society approach
(Sunday, 9th February, 12.30-13.30. Hall 2 Room 3)

Making Cities Resilient beyond 2020
(Sunday, 9th February, 14.00-16.00. Hall 2 Room 3)

Launch of UN-Habitat Flagship Programme RISE-UP: Resilient settlements for the urban poor
(Tuesday, 11th February, 12.00-12.45. UN-Habitat Booth)

Action over discourse: global examples of strengthening resilience in fragile and at risk cities
(Monday, 10th February, 12.30-13.30. Hall 2 Room 1)

Building culture of resilience towards urban sustainable development: learning from the experience of cities from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Americas and Arab Regions
(Monday, 10th February, 14.15-15.45. ONE UN)

Spearheading the New Urban Agenda through Community engagement and Resilience
(Tuesday, 11th February, 14.00-16.00. Hall 3 Room 17)