Open call for participation
Joint Connective Cities & GIDRM Working Group:
Risk informed urban development
Are you an urban representative, employee of a municipality or an urban practitioner from a NGO, university, research unity, or other working directly with cities administrations in a low- or middle-income country? You want to work towards a flood risk informed urban development and would like to apply for the City Climate Finance Gap Fund?
Join our working group and:
- Get introduced to the City Climate Finance Gap Fund and what it offers
- Profit from peer-to-peer consultations and jointly work on challenges, project ideas and expressions of interest with your peers
- Learn from good practice examples of international cities working on risk management
- Receive individual expert’s advice on your ideas
- Benefit from a strong cooperation with UNFCCC, UNDRR and the WorldBank
- Profit from different capacity building measure to improve your skills and understanding of risk informed urban development
European cities have experienced flooding many times in history, however, the scale and numbers of losses of life from the flooding in July 2021 have been devastating. Hitting the long safely imagined temperate zone, the events reveal the importance and urgency of discussing measures to enhance disaster preparedness, strengthen resilience and enhancing preparedness in cities around the globe. The need of cities worldwide to adapt to a changing climate and an increasing number of extreme weather events is more prominent than ever to save lives, reduce economic losses and protect critical infrastructure. The competences and institutional capacities of policy- and decision-makers need to be strengthened to address risks.
Within the joint GIDRM and Connective Cities working group on risked informed urban development, cities will jointly work towards handing in their expressions of interest for the City Climate Finance Gap Fund by peer-to-peer exchanges, learning from good practice examples and profiting from individual experts’ advice. Specific topics of the project ideas may include public sensitization for disaster management, risk assessment and communication, risk governance, as well as other scopes depending on the participating cities’ needs.
You are interested in becoming part of the joint GIDRM and Connective Cities working group on risk informed urban development? Please consider the following steps:
- Join the working group online: About Risk informed urban development | GIRDM and Connective Cities Network (connective-cities.net)
- Join the first meeting: October 12th, 2021, 14:00-15:00 CET
- Find more information on the objectives and background of the working group in the Fact Sheet
- For further requests, do not hesitate to contact Karl-Heinz Gaudry (karl-heinz.gaudrysada@giz.de) or Ricarda Meissner (ricarda.meissner@giz.de).
