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INTRODUCTION City Resilience in Africa: A Ten Essentials Pilot www.unisdr.org City Resilience in Africa: A Ten Essentials Pilot My city is getting ready ! DISCLAIMER The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nation Secretariat and are those of the authors. The designations employed and the presentation of the material do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the UN Secretariat concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or its authorities, or concerning the delineation of its frontier or boundaries. This publication may be freely quoted or reprinted, but acknowledgement of the source is requested. UNISDR encourages the reproduction or translation, in part or in full, of this document, and requires a written pre-approval (please contact UNISDR at [email protected] and provide a copy of the translation). UNISDR secretariat UNISDR Regional Office Asia UNISDR Regional Office Tel.: +41 22 917 8908/8907 and the Pacific Arab States [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.unisdr.org www.unisdr.org/asiapacific www.unisdr.org/arabstates UNISDR Liaison Office, UNISDR Regional Office www.unisdr.org/Campaign New York The Americas [email protected] [email protected] www.eird.org UNISDR Regional Office Africa UNISDR Regional Office Europe [email protected] and Central Asia www.unisdr.org/africa [email protected] www.unisdr.org/europe 4 | CITY RESILIENCE IN AFRICA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The UNISDR Regional Office for Africa would like to thank everyone that participated in the development of this report. In particular, we would like to thank Kisumu City Council, Narok City Council and Moshi City Council for facilitating consultative workshops aimed at generating baseline information with regard to how resilient the three cities are to disaster risk. UNISDR would also like to thank all the technical officers who individually supported the development of this report through using the HFA-LGSAT to assess how resilient their city is. UNISDR: Project Coordinator- Youcef Ait Chellouche Author: Melissa Permezel and Oscar Ebalu. Special appreciation goes to the following; MOSHI City Council: Director Moshi: Bernadette Kinabo KISUMU City Council: Mayor Kisumu: Samuel Okello Town Clerk: Christopher Rusana NAROK City Council: Chairman Narok: Isaac Partoip Town Clerk: Godfrey Wana CITY RESILIENCE IN AFRICA | 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.0 Executive Summary .................................................................................................................... 9 Overall Assessment Of City Resilience .............................................................................................. 9 10 Essential Assessment Summary Of Pilot Cities ............................................................................. 10 Review Of The TEN ESSENTIALS Framework And Approach In Pilot Cities ........................................... 12 Overall Recommendations ............................................................................................................... 12 2.0 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 13 2.1 Objectives Of Pilot Study .............................................................................................................. 13 2.2 Resilient Cities Campaign And The Hyogo Framework Of Action (Focus On Africa) ....................... 13 3.0 Background To Cities .................................................................................................................. 13 3.1 Narok, Kenya Profile .................................................................................................................... 13 3.2 Kisumu, Kenya Profile ................................................................................................................. 15 3.3 Moshi, Tanzania Profile ............................................................................................................... 15 4.0 Methodology .............................................................................................................................. 16 4.1 Sample Selection ......................................................................................................................... 16 4.2 Data Collection Tools: ................................................................................................................. 17 5.0 Ranking Results .......................................................................................................................... 18 6.0 Qualitative Analysis Results ........................................................................................................ 23 7.0 Key Outcomes ............................................................................................................................. 35 Reflections On The Consultation Process ......................................................................................... 35 8.0 Pilot City Resilience Assessments............................................................................................... 35 8.1 City Resilience Analysis – Narok, Kenya – Overall Comment ........................................................ 35 8.2 City Resilience Analysis – Kisumu, Kenya – Overall Comment ..................................................... 35 8.3 City Resilience Analysis – Moshi, Tanzania – Overall Comment ................................................... 36 9.0 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................. 37 10.0 Recommendations For Unisdr And City Resilience Campaign .................................................... 38 10.1 Suggested Broad Actions For Building City Resilience In Each Pilot City ...................................... 38 6 | CITY RESILIENCE IN AFRICA Progressing Ten Essentials In Narok ................................................................................................. 38 Progressing Ten Essentials In Kisumu .............................................................................................. 38 Progressing Ten Essentials In Moshi ................................................................................................. 39 10.2 Suggested Modifications To The 10 Essential Framework ........................................................... 39 10.2.1 Overall Suggestions: ................................................................................................................ 39 10.2.2 Specific Suggestions For Modifying The Ten Essentials Questions .......................................... 40 11.0 References ................................................................................................................................ 40 Appendix 1: The 5 Priorities Of The Hyogo Framework For Action ....................................................... 44 Appendix 2: The Ten Essentials For Building Resilient Cities .............................................................. 45 Appendix 3: Key Un Staff Who Informed The Development Of The Questionnaire .............................. 46 Appendix 4: Questionnaire ................................................................................................................ 47 Appendix 5: Rank Sheet .................................................................................................................... 55 Appendix 6: Swot Analysis ................................................................................................................ 59 CITY RESILIENCE IN AFRICA | 7 8 | CITY RESILIENCE IN AFRICA 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A series of workshops and meetings were then held at each city. Field visits were also undertaken to get In 2010, UNISDR launched a global resilient cities ‘first-hand’ experience of the types of challenges Campaign with the specific focus on improving facing cities in their DRR work and to find out at urban cities’ capacity to withstand and recover what level cities are in regard to DRR resilience. from natural disasters. The following key outcomes emerged. The Campaign is guided by three central principles to “Know more; Invest wiser; and Build safer, which are grounded in the Five Priorities of the Hyogo OVERALL ASSESSMENT OF Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters CITY RESILIENCE (HFA). As of October 2012, more than 1,200 cities Participating Pilot cities are vulnerable to 1) flood had signed up the Campaign. By signing up to the events and 2) drought events (social unrest was Campaign, cities commit to take specific actions mentioned as an issue but was in conjunction with to build their resilience. These actions are guided a natural disaster) by the “Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient” a 10-point checklist of factors considered Rural farming practices, deforestation and fundamental for cities to improve their resilience charcoal production were identified as having capacity, which was developed by UNISDR in a dramatic impact on severity of flood events conjunction with multiple stakeholders and highlighting the rural-urban linkages in relation to partners. In 2012, the Campaign two tools to help city Resilience local governments implement the Ten Essentials: The Handbook for Local Government Leaders and Pilot cities are (mostly) overwhelmed during a flood the Local HFA-Local Government Self Assessment