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SOU-16 | RISK INFORMED URBAN DEVELOPMENT: TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE SCHEMES FOR ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC RISKS IN INTERMEDIARY CITIES

19 May

19 May

14:30 to 18:00

Venue: Room 7

LEAD ORGANIZER

United Cities and Local Governments of Africa

Tel: +212(0)537 260 062

Email: info@uclga.org

Web: https://www.uclga.org/

PRESENTATION OF THE SESSION

GIZ
The race against time to determine solutions to highly complex urban challenges is no more critical than in Africa. Until 2050, 90% of the global urbanization will be experienced in Africa and Asia. Despite Africa’s low contributions to GHG emissions, the continent remains the most vulnerable to hazards e.g. climate change. Africa’s cities, particularly intermediary cities face exponential growth, unplanned urbanization trends and unfolding vulnerabilities with limited capacities, posing systemic risks to its economies, infrastructure investments, water and food systems, public health, agriculture, and livelihoods; threatening thus to undo Africa’s cities development gains and unfold new levels of inequality. Despite an increasing understanding of the complexity of risks, incorporating these complexities adequately into development planning is still a prominent issue towards the achievement of the Agenda 2030 and the Agenda 2063. To address the complex nature of risks and safeguard development gains, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Global Initiative on Disaster Risk Management and Connective Cities programs established the Working Group on Risk Informed Urban Development (RIUD) with a focus on Africa. The RIUD working group facilitates developing scalable and/or replicable solutions while building up a network of cities and experts, addressing multi-actor, multilevel and cross-sectoral interdependencies, aiming at strengthening risk governance and risk-informed development. Strengthening the dissemination of knowledge and lessons learned on how to integrate risk-informed urban development in intermediary cities and various key sectors and/or value chains is the objective of this session. The session will showcase actionable ideas and strategies from different development and geographical urban contexts and be complemented by panelists advocating for sustained investments in urban governance towards achieving resilience to risks and ensuring the sustainability of development. By addressing the public risk-governance system, context specific to the scale of territories, the session contributes to the Summit’s objective. Strengthening the regional South-South cooperation partnerships around RIUD and planning to intermediary cities, will enable the dissemination of practice-oriented solutions necessary for the envisioned launch of the “African regional and city planning association”. Furthermore, it will promote Agenda coherence among the NUA, Sendai Framework for DRR, Agenda 2030, Paris Agreement and Agenda 2063.              
 

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