Working in collaboration, Resilient/City and the American Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad & Tobago will deliver an expert panel entitled “Disaster Management” scheduled for 28 October 2021. The focus will be on enhancing private sector resilience strategies for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), supply chains and economic and social resilience practices.
Resilient/City is proud to announce the successful delivery of urban resilience trainings with our new client at the Vienna-based “Innovation in Politics Institute” for their global network of mayors. Several visionary mayors from Europe and the MENA region joined our training to learn about how to reduce their risk and mitigate losses to critical infrastructure using visionary idea in urban planning, green infrastructure and public-private partnerships.
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Unlike any other moment in recent memory, the importance of accessibility to urban green spaces and public realms has taken on new significance. Their proven benefits for improving air quality, storm water management, local economies, and social cohesion have long been documented. But how do we perceive the design phase and implementation of publicly accessible realms in growing cities in a post-COVID-19 world? How do we link public realms to public health strategies? To answer these questions, Resilient/City collaborated with our partners at University Alliance Ruhr, ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability and the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) on another webinar on the linkages between public health and urban design.
In conjunction with Climate Week NYC, one of the biggest climate summits of 2020, Resilient/City organized a series of urban policy web talks with our partners at the University Alliance Ruhr, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York.
Resiliént/City is proud to announce that Department of Health & Human Services of Jersey City/USA, along with funding from the World Economic Forum, has hired our services in urban policy design to support mechanisms for greater urban health. We are excited to support Jersey City, an optimal urban incubator, for new policy approaches on sanitation, health and wellbeing and sustainability.
CEO Dr. Alexander Mirescu is proud to announce that Resilient/City and GEODEV, a leading project management firm in Kenya, have signed association documents for the development urban resilience strategies. Dr. Mirescu stated that “joining forces with prestigious companies, like GEODEV, with their history of project implementation, will bring synergistic benefit to Resilient/City, GEODEV, and the Kenyan government.” We’ll release more details about this exciting project as they become available!
After speaking at the Future Cities Summit in Toronto in late 2018, Resilient/City CEO Dr. Alexander Mirescu collaborated with urbanization and construction resource, Renew Canada, on understanding the opportunities that cities have in converting their greatest asset, impervious spaces, into resilient and risk-reducing assets.
The CEOs of Resilient/City and the Disaster Recovery Institute (www.drii.org/), Chloe Demrovsky, completed another successful workshop with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and it’s Global Education Training Institute (GETI) toward advancing indicators and benchmarks towards Resilient Business Plans for the private sector. Drawing on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and UNISDR’s Scorecard, as well as DRI’s experience in modeling and training on business continuity protocols and standards, the workshop, held at the UNISDR Las Americas regional office in Panama, made measurable progress toward designing standards and setting M&E benchmarks for a resilient private sector.
The United Nations Global Education and Training Institute (GETI) and UNISDR are partnering with Resiliént/City to deliver a key training on Disaster Risk Reduction and Business Continuity Plans at the United Nation’s regional center in Panama City, Panama. The private sector plays a key role in enhancing the resilience profile of the cities they are based in, the people they employ and the environment they affect. However, for a long time, the private sector was a neglected sector of sustainable and resilience practice. With the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015 and later the Sustainable Development Goals, much more emphasis is placed on positive social impacts that the private sector can have on helping the United Nations and both developed and developing state deliver resilience-linked SDGs, like SDG 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure and SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities.
