Designing Schools of the Future to Build Education Resilience post COVID-19

October 28, 2020 4:17 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Designing Schools of the Future to Build Education Resilience post COVID-19

Organizer: The World Bank’s Global Program for Safer Schools, The World Bank Education Global Practice

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated at a global scale the devastating impacts that school closures can have on learning outcomes and the development of children, particularly the poorest and most vulnerable. We have witnessed these negative impacts repeatedly at regional and local scales over many decades as a result of other natural disasters and will continue to as the climate crisis worsens. A key tool in enhancing the resilience of global education systems is to invest in safer and high-quality school infrastructure as well as planning and management systems that allow these investments to be equitable, cost-effective, and sustainable in the long term. This session will share a case study of work in Cali, Colombia, a city with high seismic and flood risk, where the municipal government is using simple yet innovative methodologies to maximize the effectiveness of investments in school infrastructure risk reduction. In addition to enhancing the safety of schools, the city is using these interventions as an opportunity to improve the quality of the indoor and outdoor learning environments and to integrate community use of the facilities as a means of improving overall education quality and community resilience. This case study highlights the need that we have witnessed in our work for contemporary design standards for school infrastructure that go beyond the traditional ‘cells and bells’ typologies that have been used for nearly a century and respond to new pedagogies, evolving functional and community requirements, and an increased need for flexibility and redundancy. The session will share innovative examples of school designs that have broken free of the traditional mold and may serve as inspiration for these ‘schools of the future’, including those designed by the world-renowned architect Takaharu Tezuka in Japan. During the session, polls and chat functions will be used to engage the audience and gather feedback and insights.

Speakers:
Carina Fonseca Ferreira, Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank”
Vivian Argueta Bernal, International Development and Resilience Consultant
Tigran Shmis, Senior Education Specialist, World Bank
Takaharu Tezuka, Architect
Janssen Edelweiss Teixeira, Senior Education Specialist, World Bank
Fernando Ramirez Cortes, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank

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How big is your appetite (for making a difficult decision)?

October 28, 2020 4:15 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

How big is your appetite (for making a difficult decision)?

Organizer: Satarla

Aligning organisations on “how much risk is too much risk” is key to rapid and robust decision making, especially in times of stress. This is often addressed through regulation as “risk appetite and tolerance”…. But what does this actually mean? More than that – does it even work, especially when the context in which you are trying to work keeps changing?
Learn how the most successful organisations proactively and dynamically measure the tipping point beyond which they do not want their risks to go. Often these decisions are incredibly difficult and no answer is the right answer. This interactive session will not only explore a range of case studies from the world of business for best practice risk appetite setting, but also test your own tool to take away and apply to your own organisation. Case studies include: Responsible sourcing of cobalt; “zero tolerance” = safety; when to go back to the office. Bring your teams and your ideas, and prepare to walk away with truly useful tools to help your team make aligned decisions especially when risks reach their tipping point. This interactive session will commence with a series of short, sharp, informative case studies of how risk appetite and tolerance has been utilised in a range of different sectors, from charities to sport, mining, banking and governments. We will then transition into an interactive exercise through which all participants are taught how to establish their own risk appetite, thereby giving them the technique to be able to utilise in their own organisation.

Speaker:
Sarah Gordon, CEO and Co- founder, Satarla

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Resilience Academy as a sustainability solution for urban resilience skills development in Africa

October 28, 2020 4:11 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Resilience Academy as a sustainability solution for urban resilience skills development in Africa

Organizer: University of Turku – Finland, Ardhi University – Dar es Salaam, Sokoine University of Agriculture – Zanzibar, University of Dar es Salaam – Dar es Salaam, State University of Zanzibar – Morogoro, World Bank Tanzania.

Urbanisation challenges Africa’s young labour force, which needs to be skilled to solve problems caused by unplanned urbanisation. This is a major opportunity for African universities. Young, graduated experts need to be able to steer urbanisation to sustainable trajectories with digital skills and innovative uses of geospatial data and technologies for urban transformation. The Resilience Academy is a university partnership program focusing on skills and knowledge transfer on urban resilience. It is a new digital service model of universities for sustainable and inclusive urban development. Resilience Academy uses tools and technologies, which are open, affordable and locally adaptable, such as drone images, smartphones and open-source software. New geospatial data and knowledge is created through community mapping methods aiming for improved spatial planning and risk management.Resilience Academy operates via three main activities. Firstly, student internship modalities are used for large-scale data collection campaigns to reduce the knowledge gap existing in many rapidly growing cities. Simultaneously, students’ exposure to practical training during the internship provides them with relevant applied geospatial skills, which increase their future employment opportunities and participation in informed decision-making. Secondly, Resilience Academy promotes the sharing and use of digital data by maintaining Climate Risk Geodatabase. This online, open-access database curates geospatial data and encourages the usage, analysis and visualization of this data by various stakeholders. Thirdly, Resilience Academy builds online learning materials and courses to address relevant urban development and risk management skills and competences. These online academic modules can be used for vocational training and embedded into local university curricula. Currently, the Resilience Academy is a partnership between four Tanzanian Universities: Ardhi University, University of Dar es Salaam, Sokoine University, State University of Zanzibar, and the University of Turku (Finland), with the involvement of TU Delft and the University of Twente – Faculty ITC (the Netherlands). The purpose of this side event is to share the experiences of Resilience Academy from Tanzania with a wider audience of international academia and to identify possibilities to scale-up these activities on a regional level. The event will consist of presentations to share the experiences of the Resilience Academy, break-out sessions to identify synergies amongst regional partners and scalability, and a final wrap-up.

Speakers
Niina Käyhko, Associate Professor in Digital Geospatial Research at Department of Geography and Geology – University of Turku
Dr. Ernest Mauya, Senior Lecturer (Forest Engineering and Resource Assessment), College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism, okoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
Dr. Mercy Mbise, Senior Lecturer and head of department for the Computer Science and Engineering Department, College of Information and Communication Technologies – University of Dar es Salaam
Dr. Makame Makame, Senior Lecturer at the School of Natural and Social Science (SNSS), The State University of Zanzibar (SUZA)
Dr. Zakaria Ngereja, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geospatial Sciences and Technology, Ardhi University
Innocent Maholi , Founder and Executive Director at OpenMap Development Tanzania
Sebastian Gaertner, Project Manager at Greenstand
Steven Jofley Kutuku, University Graduate

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Land and geospatial information systems: A cornerstone to improve resilience

October 28, 2020 4:03 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Land and geospatial information systems: A cornerstone to improve resilience

Organizer: The World Bank

When disasters displace people and they are forced to leave their homes behind, land records can offer critical protection of their property rights. This is crucial, since land and homes are usually the main assets that people have and being able to return to homes—and for that matter, farms and businesses—is essential for recovery. Receiving compensation for what has been lost enables people to start again and rebuild; however, without land records, there is no inventory of what has been lost. Similarly, geospatial information is essential. Without this, even the most basic rebuilding post-disaster is impossible. Restoring road networks, transportation, water supplies, and sewage systems requires detailed data about topography, elevation, soil stability, and subsurface structures. At its most basic, if those trying to undertake relief work lack maps of the areas they are working in, rescue efforts will be compromised, and the provision of emergency aid made difficult. Land and geospatial information is extremely valuable for resilience but to produce it and effectively use it, right systems need to be in place: a Land Administration System that provides current, reliable, and complete land tenure, land valuation, land use, and land development information, and a sustainable National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)—that provides comprehensive and authoritative geospatial information. Moreover, Land and geospatial systems are of no use in disasters unless the systems themselves are resilient so that data and access to data are not lost in a disaster event. This session will present the report “Solid Ground: Increasing Community Resilience through Improved Land Administration and Geospatial Information Systems” and a moderated panel discussion interviewing practitioners and experts about their experiences using Land and geospatial information in the context of resilience.

Speakers:
Abbas Rajabifard, Director of the Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety, and Director of Smart and Sustainable Development, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Rosamond Bing, Chief Executive Officer – Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources of Tonga
Keith Bell, Senior Technical Specialist
Colleen Butcher-Gollach, International Lead Technical Advisor
Mika-Petteri Torhonen, Lead Land Administration Specialist

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Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems: Enabling early and effective action to Tropical Cyclones

October 28, 2020 4:00 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems: Enabling early and effective action to Tropical Cyclones

Organizer: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

2020 marks the 40th Anniversary of WMO’s Tropical Cyclone Programme, which has coordinated national and regional multi-hazard early warning system efforts to reduce the loss of life and damage caused by tropical cyclones. The hazards associated with tropical cyclones include flooding, extreme winds, tornadoes, and lightening. These violent storms and have been associated with 1,942 disasters over the past 50 years, which have killed 779,324 people and caused 1,407.6 billion in economic losses.

Recent trends in the nature and intensity of these storms emphasize the need for improved impact-based multi-hazard early warning systems and effective collaboration with development, government, and private sector stakeholders to ensure those at risk are prepared to take quick action to save lives and better protect livelihoods. This is critical as the latest climate model projections indicate an increase in the intensities of the strongest cyclones.

This session will outline recent trends in tropical cyclones and highlight recent work, innovation, and next steps in advancing impact-based multi-hazard early warning systems. Representatives from Fiji and the Philippines National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, disaster reduction and civil protection agencies will highlight good practice and lessons learnt through joint collaboration to ensure the best possible science and optimal services enhance decision-making and improve outcomes.

Speakers:
Cyrille Honore, Chief, Disaster Risk Reduction and Public Services Branch
Raul Salazar, Chief of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Secretariat for the Americas based in Panama
Rodney Martinez, WMO Rep. for North & Central America & the Caribbean
John Tibbetts, DG Cayman Island National Weather Service
Allan Rarai, Acting Director, Vanuatu Meteorology & Geo-Hazards Department
Mussa Mustafa, Deputy Director General, National Institute of Meteorology

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What do we learn when we map a city? Voices and impacts from Open Cities Africa

October 28, 2020 3:58 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

What do we learn when we map a city? Voices and impacts from Open Cities Africa

Organizer: World Bank / GFDRR; Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Since 2017, the Open Cities Africa program has trained more than 500 neighborhood residents, university students, and civil servants how to use phones, cameras, drones and other tech to gather data on disaster risk. Yet data collection was only the beginning. How can hundreds of trained mappers and hundreds of thousands of mapped features help Africa’s cities understand, then take action on disaster risk? In this session, we take a look at the relationships that develop between mappers, citizens, and their governments, and how these relationships sustain the trust and accountability necessary to make this data not only complete, but useful and impactful. Speakers will reflect on aspects of the community mapping process that are particularly effective in supporting the planning priorities of a city, such as building the technical capacity of students to become future leaders in tech for disaster risk reduction, and data-driven decision-making for resilient urban planning.

Speakers:
Vivien Deparday, Disaster Risk Management Specialist, GFDRR
Jess Beutler, Field Programs Lead
David Luswata, Programs Manager
Willy Franck SOB, CEO, SOGEFI
Carter Draper, Country Director at iLab Liberia
Raya Ahmada, Assistant Lecturer/ Resilience Academy Coordinator at The State University of Zanzibar
Ibrahim Mambo, Commission for Lands, Zanzibar

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Reshaping a resilient future in response to COVID-19

October 28, 2020 3:56 pm Published by Leave a comment

Reshaping a resilient future in response to COVID-19

Organizer: Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), World Resources Institute (WRI), International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Complex Systems in Transition (CST) *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the vulnerability of our global society to systemic risks. Learning from this crisis is crucial, since it is a harbinger of a new global risk landscape where events such as pandemics, financial crashes and synchronized food shocks spread more quickly and widely than ever before. Critically, this new risk landscape is having disproportionate impacts on vulnerable and marginalized groups. Clearly, we cannot “recover” back to business as usual from the COVID-19 shock. We need to build a resilient future that ensures the capacity to sustain, or improve, human well-being in an equitable manner and in the face of systemic uncertainty, shocks and change. Resilience science and practice has provided rich insights on the attributes and types of interventions that underpin truly resilient, long-term development. This is the moment to start translating this progress into broader-scale action that builds resilient economies, societies and communities in a post-COVID-19 world.

Speakers:
Albert Norström, Head of Knowledge and Evidence, Global Resilience Partnership (GRP)
Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Co-Director, SARChI Chair, Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST)
Nisha Krishnan, Senior Finance Action Track Associate, Global Commission on Adaptation
Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD)

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What’s the news in anticipatory action?

October 28, 2020 3:55 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

What’s the news in anticipatory action?

Wednesday, Dec 02, UTC 10:00 to 11:55

Organizer: Red Cross Climate Centre

In this session we have a carousel of speakers from around the world presenting the latest tech developments in anticipatory action, early warning and early action systems and emerging technologies research and collaborations on this topic. The carousel will be followed by an interactive session.

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Risk thinking versus resilience thinking

October 28, 2020 3:51 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Risk thinking versus resilience thinking

Organizer: Royal HaskoningDHV

Our session is focused on risk thinking versus resilience thinking and the use of objective data versus subjective data in urban adaptation and resilience design. During the session we will showcase several modelling tools, two practical cases and explain how objective data and subjective data play a role in the design process. We focus on risk versus resilience and will experience how discussions are influenced when different types of data are used. One of the tools that will be used is STAIN. This tool is developed for participatory resilience strategy design in cities. The focus in this tool is on subjective data and local area knowledge and uses a personal interpretation of what resilience means to a particular city as a starting point. With this approach a level of understanding is reached between the different participants around the table. This level of understanding creates more opportunities for collaboration between cities and citizens, companies or housing associations and accellerates the process from resilience strategy to a resilience plan. We will follow the urban adaptation process of 2 case studies and show examples of where objective risk data played an important role and where subjective knowledge supports the creation of a resilience strategy and plan. We finalise the session with a discussion on how the two types of data could best be combined for a higher efficiency in the urban adaptation process.

Speakers:
Lisette Heuer, Global Director Resilience & Strategy Director Water
Micheline Hounjet, Product Development Resilience
Tim De Waele, Sustainable Aviation Lead & Airport Consultant
Vivek Sindhamani, Advisor water, climate adaptation and participation

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Carousel talks: Latest developments in the science and technology for early warning early action – Student Edition

October 28, 2020 3:49 pm Published by Leave a comment

  

Carousel talks: Latest developments in the science and technology for early warning early action – Student Edition

Organizer: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

In this session we will have a carousel of young scientists from the SHEAR program presenting the latest advancements in anticipatory action, early warning and early action systems.

Speakers:
Neeraj Sah, Doctoral researcher at Imperial College London
Peter McGowran, PhD candidate at King’s College London, Department of Geography
Shreyasi Choudhury, PhD Student King’s College London
Gaurab Dawadi, PhD Student King’s College London, Dept. of Geography
Sazzad Hossain , PhD student in Environmental Science at the University of Reading, UK
Ileen Streefkerk, PhD Candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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