Insight sessions that have taken place as part of the Joint Initiative:

2024

• 19/03 –  Nature-Based Solutions, Biomimicry, and Flood Management Lessons Learned from the U.S. and Europe by Andy Potts, Christopher Lee Allen, Tyler Jantzen and Jason Bernagros, Jacobs, United Stattes

• 16/05 – The Sponge City Concept and Implementation Potentials in Sub-Saharan Africa by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Köster and Ms. Anna Thoms, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

• 20/06 – Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Risk-Informed Urban Development and Climate Action in the SADC region by Prof Yashon Ouma, University of Botswana, Botswana 

• 22/08 – Business Continuity Management for Risk Informed Urban Development in the SADC Region by Dr Clifford Ferguson, Academy of Resilience & Continuity, South Africa 

• 18/09 – Opportunities and challenges in investing in risk-informed urban development in the SADC region: African Adaptation Initiative experience by Mrs. Kulthoum Motsumi, Mr. Koffi Koumassi and Ms. Toju Babalola, African Adaptation Initiative. 

• 31/10 – SANTAM - Building Societal Resilience through Partnerships by Dr. Moses Khangale, SANTAM, South Africa 

2023

• 12/07 – Building Climate Resilience: Lessons from Flood-Prone Urban Regions in Central Viet Nam and the 2021 Floods in Western Europe by Dr. Michael Hagenlocher & Dominic Sett, United Nations University, Germany

• 19/07 – MCR2030 Dashboard and Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities by UNDRR Mrs. Isabel Njihia, UNDRR Regional Office for Africa, Kenya

• 26/07 – Unlock Your City’s Potential: Master the Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities by Mrs. Isabel Njihia, UNDRR Regional Office for Africa, Kenya 

2022

• 29/03 – Harnessing the INFORM platform as a tool for national authorities to design the DRR strategies at different levels, from local to national by Dr. Karmen Poljansek and Mr. Luca Galimberti, Joint Research Center, Belgium;  Dr. Andrew Thow, UNOCHA , Switzerland; Mrs. Galiya Ibragimova UNDRR, Switzerland

• 11/05 – Multi-risk exposure modelling Earth observation techniques for natural hazard risk assessment by Dr. Christian Geiss, German Aerospace Center, Germany  

• 12/05 – Downscaling: Projecting GCM data at the city scale with the cumulative impact assessment on multiple stresses on the water sector at the municipal level by Dr. Sangam Shrestha, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

• 17/05 – Exposure modelling: Automated characterization of exposed buildings with street-level imagery and deep learning by Mr. Patrick Aravena Pelizari, German Aerospace Center, Germany

• 02/06 – Modelling cascading effects in networks by Mr. Hugo Rosero, Techincal University of Munich, Germany

• 03/06 – Planning for Sustainable Infrastructure(Session 2): Nature-based-solutions for risk-informed urban development planning and sustainable infrastructure by Prof. Dr. Alexander Jachnow, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Netherlands; Dr. Johanes Belle, Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa, South Africa; Mr. Dirk Kurberg, Emschergenossenschaft und Lippeverband, Germany

• 10/06 – Risk informed development: Securing development gains among multidimensional risks by Mr. Rajeev Issar, UNDP, Switzerland

• 14/06 – Dynamic vulnerability by Mr. Juan Camilo Gómez-Zapata, German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany

• 23/06 – Pursuing risk-informed urban development that leaves no one behind by Mr. Arghya Sinha Roy,  Asian Development Bank, Philippines

• 29/06 – Critical Infrastructure: Building CapaCITY by Mrs. Johanne Kaufmann, Mr. Chris Hetkämper, Mrs. Carlotta Bauer, TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Germany

• 05/07 – The City Resilience Action Planning Tool  by Mr. Nuno Remane, DiMSUR, Mozambique

• 05/07 – City Climate Finance Gap Fund by Mrs. Vanessa Bauer, GIZ, Germany

• 19/07 – MCR2030 Dashboard and Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities by UNDRR by Mrs. Isabel Njihia, UNDRR Regional Office for Africa, Kenya