Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) is a campaign launched by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. The main aim is to rise awareness of risk reduction and resilience in cities. The campaign is primary aimed at local governments and politicians to help them achieve important agreements such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement. The program offers several meeting points, and participants share knowledge and previous experiences from different cities. An additional aim of this campaign was to attempt to connect different layers of city governance closer, including the citizens.
Purposes of the solution:
Enhance preparedness
Empower governance and leadership
Enhance risk awareness
The solution could help to address the following needs of first responders and authorities:
Improve autonomy, coping abilities, and proactiveness of citizens