The Asia-Pacific region is the world’s most natural disaster-prone area, with disaster-induced deaths in the region increasing more than three-fold in the past decade. Thereby, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) practices at the local level are gaining momentum and new, innovative initiatives are starting to make an impact on how people deal with issues related to disasters. One of the key drivers of knowledge transfer for local levels is the city-to-city cooperation in which peer-to-peer learning methods have helped translate DRR technicalities into a more user-friendly and acceptable format of knowledge sharing for local agencies and residents to understand.

Therefore, United Cities and Local Governments  (UCLG) World Secretariat Learning Department and United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific (UCLG-ASPAC), together with the  international cities platform Connective Cities and its initiators, the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the German Association of Cities (DST) and Engagement Global gGmbH / Service Agency Communities in One World (SKEW), and Surabaya City Government are organising a Peer-Learning Workshop on “Building a Local Government Alliance for Localising the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) 2015-2030 in Asia-Pacific” to be held in Surabaya, Indonesia in conjunction with the UCLG ASPAC Regional Congress from 12 - 14 September 2018. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the UCLG Task force on Territorial Prevention and Management of Crises shall be invited to partner.

The upcoming event is geared specifically towards Local participants include representatives of different stakeholder groups, such as local government and administration, economy, civil society, and academia who are contributing their know-how and expertise to identify the underlying challenges in the urban and regional context. Up to 3 urban practitioners from German municipalities are asked to provide first-hand experience on practical approaches and proven solutions to disaster risk reduction and management from their municipality and context of work.

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