Making Smart Cities

17/05/2019

UNITED NATIONS SASAKAWA AWARDS 2019

Yesterday the Civil Defense of Campinas supported by the Making Smart Cities initiative was one of the winners of the United Nations Sasakawa Awards in Geneva.

It shows that the collaboration between the public and the private sector can work well.

This partnership allowed Making Smart Cities, the corporate social responsibility initiative of AISR, to bring analytical and decision support tools to the development and management of strategies, planning and actions related to DRR, turning the city of Campinas a place more resilient to any type of urban risks and impacting more than three millions of people.

The initiative also integrates the Sendai Framework, the SDGs, Climate Change Paris Agreement - COP 21, Habitat III and the Agenda for Humanity and has a really strong belief on sustainable and incluse socities and on leaving no one behind.

We are honored!

03/03/2018

UNISDR ARISE Board meeting in Geneva

17/10/2017

at the Natural Disaster Meeting with Sao Paulo State Government and ABJICA

17/10/2017

AISR presenting the Making Smart Cities initiative and the UNISDR ARISE at the IV International Congress on Risks in Coimbra, Portugal.
AISR apresentando a iniciativa Making Smart Cities e o UNISDR ARISE no IV Congresso Internacional de Riscos em Coimbra, Portugal.

11/10/2016

Fernando Perez Britto and Craig Fugate - Administrator of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - at the UNISDR ARISE Annual General Meeting in Washington, DC

Fernando Perez Britto e Craig Fugate - Administrador da Agência Federal de Gestão de Emergências (FEMA) dos EUA - na UNISDR ARISE Annual General Meeting em Washington, DC

11/10/2016

Making Smart Cities presentation at the UNISDR ARISE Annual General Meeting

11/10/2016

UNISDR ARISE Annual General Meeting - Washington, DC

02/08/2016

Making Smart Cities e AISR na mídia:

http://exame.abril.com.br/negocios/dino/noticias/crise-amplia-demanda-por-solucoes-de-inteligencia-analitica.shtml

Segundo pesquisa, o mercado de Tecnologia da Informação cresce no país. Especialistas apontam a importância de soluções que melhorem o desempenho dos negócios e aumentem competitividade e eficiência, tanto no setor privado como no público.

01/07/2016

EU PROVIDES €6 MILLION FOR UNISDR AND UN-HABITAT TO MAKE VULNERABLE CITIES RESILIENT TO DISASTERS

1 July 2016, GENEVA – The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) aim to reduce disaster losses in some of the world’s most hazard prone cities with the initial aid of a €6 million grant from the EU, over the next three years.

Mr. Neven Mimica, European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development said: ”Strengthening disaster risk governance is an essential part of sustainable development and a key priority of the Sendai Framework. I am delighted that with EU support this project will help vulnerable cities become more resilient to disasters, increase the awareness of local authorities of future risks, and promote engagement of people living in these cities in reducing disaster risk.”

The project “Making cities sustainable and resilient: implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 at the local level” is key to achieving a substantial increase in the number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020 as called for in the Sendai Framework.

UN-Habitat will focus on four crisis prone cities in post-disaster contexts: Asuncion (Paraguay), Dakar (Senegal), Maputo (Mozambique), Port Villa (Vanuatu) using its City Resilience Profiling Programme (CRPP) which provides local governments with tools for measuring and increasing resilience to multi-hazard impacts including those associated with climate change.

UNISDR will support the development of action plans for reducing disaster risk in these 20 cities: Kampala (Uganda), Dire-Dawa (Ethiopia), Kisumu (Kenya), Yaounde (Cameroon), Pria (Cabo Verde), Khartoum (Republic of Sudan), Ismaliya Governorate (Egypt), Nablus (Palestine), Nouakchott (Mauritania), Honiara (Solomon Islands), Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), Kathmandu City (Nepal), Dhaka North City Cooperation (Bangladesh), Cilacap Regency (Indonesia), Mawlamyine (Myanmar), Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Kingston (Jamaica), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Managua (Nicaragua) and San Juan de Lurigancho (Peru).

08/06/2016

Fernando Britto, AISR's CEO and ARISE's Member of Advisory Group and Focal point for South America and the Caribbean is now in the "First Meeting of Ministers and High-Level Authorities on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas".

11/05/2016

19.2 MILLION PEOPLE IN 113 COUNTRIES DISPLACED BY DISASTERS IN 2015; 8.6 MILLION DISPLACED BY CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE

There were 27.8 million new displacements in 127 countries during 2015, roughly the equivalent of the populations of New York City, London, Paris
and Cairo combined. Of the total, 8.6 million were associated with conflict and violence in 28 countries, and 19.2 million with disasters in 113 countries.

The information is contained in a new report published today by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) which publishes for the first time its estimates and analysis of people internally displaced by conflict, generalised violence and disasters in a single report.

2015 was, tragically, another record year for internal displacement associated with conflict and violence. New displacements were recorded in all regions of the world, but by far the worst-affected country was Yemen, where 2.2 million people – or eight per cent of the population – fled their homes and sought refuge within the country’s borders.

There were 19.2 million new displacements associated with disasters brought on by rapid-onset natural hazards in 2015, more than twice as many as for conflict and violence. The vast majority of this displacement was caused by extreme weather events such as storms and flooding, but the April and May earthquakes in Nepal, which forced 2.6 million to flee their homes, were a stark reminder of the potential of geophysical hazards to precipitate mass displacements.

As in previous years, south and east Asia and the Pacific regions were worst-affected by displacement associated with disasters, and the vulnerable, coastal populations of small island developing states (SIDSs) were disproportionately
affected again. Low and middle income countries were hardest hit across the world as a whole. Full report can be accessed here http://bit.ly/1On5fke

21/03/2016

Tempestades em São Paulo foram citadas pelo escritório da ONU de assuntos humanitários, que também chamou atenção para a situação da Bolívia, onde 40% dos municípios foram afetados por emergências …