Welcome to theKyoto
Policy ForumMay 18, 2010 / Kyoto, Japan

Reducing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
www.gfdrr.org

Working Group 1

Making critical infrastructure
more resilient
This session will explore the characteristics of increasing risks to critical infrastructure due to climate change, demographic changes, andother factors, and share promising practices related to risk reduction
in infrastructure. Critical infrastructure must be built to standards
to allow it to withstand hazard events, and function effectively foremergency response and recovery. Infrastructure services, includingtelecommunications, electric power, gas and oil storage and transportation, water supply and sanitation, transportation, emergency
service institutions (hospitals, police stations, fire and rescue), etc.
require appropriate maintenance and monitoring of changes resulting from urbanization, climate change, demographic changes, andother factors.

Kyoto Policy ForumMay 18, 2010 / Kyoto, Japan

Reducing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
www.gfdrr.org

Working Group 2

Effective urban management
for sustainable communities
This session will share examples of good practice in the development
and management of resilient and sustainable investments, and identify the best ways to engage stakeholders in the development process to improve risk reduction and sustain poverty reduction throughvarious tools such as infrastructure asset management, disaster risk
management and energy supply. The session will also explore how
to improve accountability and transparency in urban management
as a mechanism to reduce risk.

Kyoto Policy ForumMay 18, 2010 / Kyoto, Japan

Reducing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
www.gfdrr.org

Working Group 3

The importance of local institutions andcommunity engagement
Local institutions—public, private, and from civil society—play a critical role in shaping risk management. They are the interface between
households and local resources, they mobilize collective action, determine flows of external support to different stakeholders, and link
local populations to national interventions. They will also shape how
local communities are able to adapt to climate change and to copewith hazard events. This session aims to increase understanding of
the role of local institutions, and explore such issues as how to enhance their capacity, how to strengthen the role of institutional partnerships for better risk management, how to improve coordination
across scales for better planning and implementation, and how to increase the role of private and market based institutions to facilitate
disaster

Kyoto Policy ForumMay 18, 2010 / Kyoto, Japan

Reducing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
www.gfdrr.org

Working Group 1

Making criticalinfrastructure
more resilient

Kyoto Policy ForumMay 18, 2010 / Kyoto, Japan

Reducing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
www.gfdrr.org

Working Group 2

Effective urbanmanagement
for sustainablecommunities

Kyoto Policy ForumMay 18, 2010 / Kyoto, JapanReducing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
www.gfdrr.org

Working Group 3

The importanceof local institutions
and community
engagement

Kyoto Policy ForumMay 18, 2010 / Kyoto, Japan

Reducing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
www.gfdrr.org