The Philippine Public Safety College offers a Master in Crisis and Disaster Risk Management (MCDRM) to scholars from government (DILG, AFP, DepEd, PSG, DOT, etc). It was an honor to be invited as a lecturer in one of the virtual sessions. My topic was "Building Infrastructure Resilience and Making Cities Resilient to Disasters: Assessment and Challenges to LGUs." Presented in my lecture are the 4R's of Infrastructure Resilience and the Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient (MCR) of the UNDRR. There was wa workshop held wherein the participants assessed a city using the preliminary score card for the MCR. The lecture was held for two batches: 14 Sept 2021 for the Public Safety Advance Course-MCDRM where most of the participants come from PNP, AFP and 29 Oct 2021 for the PPSC-MCDRM Batch 4.
The Making Cities Resilient has undergone two phases - the Hyogo Framework and the Sendai Framework. UNDRR is now calling for LGU participants to its third phase MCR2030. "MCR2030 aims to ensure cities become inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by 2030, contributing directly to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”, and other global frameworks including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement and the New Urban Agenda."
