DiMSUR

09/10/2020

Apresentação da ferramenta CityRap no Circuito Urbano!

🗾O evento apresentará a Ferramenta de Planeamento de Ações para Resiliência da Cidade (CityRAP) e a Agenda Teresina 2030, e irá discutir e apresentar os desafios e experiências em Moçambique, Guiné-Bissau e São Tomé e Príncipe na construção da resiliência nos diversos contextos.

🔴 Estaremos ao vivo às 10:00 de Brasília 🇧🇷, 12:00 da Praia 🇨🇻, 13:00 de Bissau 🇬🇼 e de São Tomé 🇸🇹, 14:00 de Luanda 🇦🇴 e 15:00 de Maputo 🇲🇿 para discutir sobre resiliência urbana nas cidades lusófonas!

Junte-se a nós pelo canal do YouTube do : 👨🏿‍💻👩🏾‍💻
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-qi8UsqBno



https://brasil.un.org/pt-br/94856-onu-habitat-discute-resiliencia-urbana-em-cidades-lusofonas

O Programa das Nações Unidas para os Assentamentos Humanos (ONU-Habitat) realiza na sexta-feira (9), às 10h, um debate online sobre resiliência urbana em cidades lusófonas. A discussão faz parte das “Sextas Urbanas”, cinco encontros técnicos programados para cada sexta-feira de outubro e ...

08/10/2019

World Disaster Risk Reduction Day , October 13

Over the past 10 years, UN-Habitat's and DiMSUR experiences has shown that it is worth investing in safe and resilient constructions.
In the video below, you can see how a pre-cyclone-built classroom with UN-Habitat resilience measures withstood the strong winds and rains of in Beira city - while standard classrooms unfortunately did not resist the cyclone.

Investing in infrastructure and capacity building for safe and resilient schools prevents the loss of infrastructure and disruption of the education of thousands of boys and girls.

Architect Juan Hurtado Martinez of UN-Habitat Mozambique explains why the "Build to Last" approach ( # BuildToLast) is essential to ensure sustainable social and economic development in the face of climate change.

The Safer Schools Program is implemented in Mozambique by UN-Habitat with funding from various partners such as World Bank and Unicef.

17/09/2019

"CityRAP is a participatory planning process, that enables city managers and municipal technicians in small to intermediate sized cities to understand and plan actions aimed at reducing risk and building resilience. So far, 25 cities in 10 African countries have implemented CityRAP, and identified their resilience needs, such as reinforcing drainage systems, ecosystem restoration, better management of solid waste and establishing early warning systems and safe havens to protect lives and the city’s assets.

UN-Habitat is working to bring CityRAP to as many cities as possible. In 2019 CityRAP is being implemented in Ethiopia (Arada, Dire Dawa and Adama), Malawi (Lilongwe), Mozambique (Dondo), South Africa (TBD), Union of Comoros (Fomboni), Zambia (Lusaka and Chipata) and Zimbabwe (Mutare)."

FR
"CityRAP est un processus de planification participatif, qui permet aux gestionnaires municipaux et aux techniciens municipaux de petites et moyennes villes de comprendre et de planifier des actions visant à réduire les risques et à renforcer la résilience. À ce jour, 25 villes de 10 pays africains ont mis en œuvre CityRAP et ont les besoins de résilience, tels que le renforcement des systèmes de drainage, la restauration des écosystèmes, une meilleure gestion des déchets solides et la mise en place de systèmes d'alerte précoce et de refuges pour protéger les vies et les actifs de la ville.

ONU-Habitat s'emploie à diffuser CityRAP dans le plus grand nombre de villes possible. En 2019, CityRAP est mis en œuvre en Éthiopie (Arada, Dire Dawa et Adama), au Malawi (Lilongwe), au Mozambique (Dondo), en Afrique du Sud (à déterminer), à l'Union des Comores (Fomboni), en Zambie (Lusaka et Chipata) et au Zimbabwe (Mutare). "

PT
"O CityRAP é um processo de planeamento participativo, que permite aos gestores e técnicos municipais de cidades de pequeno a médio porte entender e planear ações destinadas a reduzir riscos e aumentar a resiliência. Até agora, 25 cidades em 10 países africanos implementaram o CityRAP e identificaram seus necessidades de resiliência, como reforço de sistemas de drenagem, restauração de ecossistemas, melhor gerenciamento de resíduos sólidos e estabelecimento de sistemas de alerta precoce e refúgios para proteger vidas e bens da cidade.

A ONU-Habitat está trabalhando para levar o CityRAP ao maior número possível de cidades. Em 2019, o CityRAP está sendo implementado na Etiópia (Arada, Dire Dawa e Adama), Malawi (Lilongwe), Moçambique (Dondo), África do Sul (TBD), União das Comores (Fomboni), Zâmbia (Lusaka e Chipata) e Zimbábue (Mutare)."

Learn more:

Nairobi, 16 September 2019 - The impacts of climate change such as floods, landslides and extreme heat disproportionately affect the urban poor. This is because these communities often live in inadequate housing in fragile locations like floodplains, with no risk-reducing infrastructure such as func...

15/04/2019

The Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif will visit the cities of Beira and Dondo in Sofala Province which were devastated by cyclone Idai a month ago.

The UN-Habitat Executive Director said it is necessary to “break the cycle of destruction of natural hazards; that countries like Mozambique need to be ready for the next climate event by creating a culture of resilience at all levels. We need better planning and resilient design to reduce the need for reconstruction.”

The UN-Habitat Executive Director was personally invited by the President of the Republic of Mozambique Mr. Filipe Jacinto Nyusi following his visit to the UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi in November 2018.

A Directora Executiva do Programa das Nações Unidas para os Assentamentos Humanos (UN-Habitat) e Subsecretária Geral das Nações Unidas, Sra UN-Habitat Executive Director, Maimunah Mohd Sharif visita as cidades de Beira e Dondo na Província de Sofala – a qual foi devastada pelo ciclone Idai há um mês – e a cidade de Maputo.

A Directora Executiva do UN-Habitat afirma que é preciso “romper o ciclo de destruição causado pelos desastres; que países como Moçambique precisam estar melhor preparados para os próximos eventos climáticos de forma que uma cultura de resiliência seja estabelecida em todos os níveis. Nós precisamos de planeamento resiliente para reduzir a necessidade de reconstrução face aos desastres”

A Directora Executiva do UN-Habitat visita foi convidada pessoalmente pelo Presidente da República de Moçambique Filipe Jacinto Nyusi em seguimento a visita do Chefe de Estado à Sede do UN0Habitat em Nairobi em Novembro de 2018.

26/03/2019

"Africa could have lost infrastructure worth more than a billion dollars following Cyclone Idai, the storm that battered Mozambique, Malawi, Madagascar and Zimbabwe last week, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, said Sunday.

Speaking during a high-level policy dialogue on capitalizing on the nexus between climate change and public budget for resilient economies in Africa, Ms. Songwe said the trail of destruction left by Cyclone Idai was devastating. She called on the continent to seriously start prioritising emergency preparedness and disaster planning.

“When we talk about the new climate economy it is almost impossible not to think about what is happening on our continent right now. We probably have lost about a billion dollars in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and Malawi in terms of resources, in particular the Beira port, the signature port of Mozambique, is essentially today almost a thing of the past because of cyclone Idai,” said Ms. Songwe."

English News and Press Release on Mozambique and 3 other countries about Climate Change and Environment, Disaster Management, Flash Flood, Flood and more; published on 24 Mar 2019 by ECA

21/03/2019

"How big is the area flooded in Mozambique?

As big as: Paris, Mumbai, Buenos Aires, Kuala Lumpur, Dakar and Zurich... combined."

21/03/2019

"The Cyclone Idai has had a devastating three-fold impact since early March. The weather system brought heavy rains and floods to Tete and Zambezia provinces in early March, affecting at least 141,000 people, with 202 deaths recorded and 111 people injured.

When Cyclone IDAI made landfall on 14 March, it brought devastation and destruction to the port city of Beira – home to more than 500,000 people – and surrounding areas. Following landfall, it has continued to bring heavy rains. Flood waters are rising and the Pungoe and Buzi rivers have burst their banks."

English News and Press Release on Mozambique about Food and Nutrition, Health, Women, Flood, Tropical Cyclone and more; published on 21 Mar 2019 by UN RC Mozambique

15/03/2019

Sad news from Malawi and Mozambique highlights for the importance of building and to related in Southern .

"The floods have reportedly already destroyed more than 5,000 homes, and affected more than 140,000 people in the country [ ], which is one of the poorest on the continent."

More than 100 people have been killed and 843,000 affected by torrential rains in Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa, the UN and officials said, as tropical cyclone Idai is expected to hit the continent's south-eastern countries.  At least 66 people in Mozambique, and four in South Africa we...

13/03/2019

CityRAP: a tool for resilient communities in Africa

http://dimsur.org/tools-2/the-cityrap-tool-movie/

The CityRAP Tool is a tool used for training city managers and municipal technicians in small to intermediate sized cities in sub-Saharan Africa. CityRAP Tool enables communities to understand and plan actions aimed at reducing risk and building resilience through the development of a Resilience Framework for Action, that is why it is designed as an enabling rather than prescriptive tool, as core principle is fostering ownership by local government and communities.

CityRAP Tool’s process includes a set of trainings, exercises and activities directed at municipalities that want to kick-start their resilience action planning. It puts local governments and urban stakeholders in the driver’s seat of urban resilience planning to ensure capacity retention and use. The tool’s design enables local governments to adapt and implement it with minimal external intervention. It draws on participatory methods – such as local government self-assessments, participatory risk mapping exercises and cross-sectorial action planning – to leverage local knowledge for understanding and planning resilience. It was developed by UN-Habitat and DiMSUR.

Movie credit: Felix Vollmann / UN-Habitat

31/10/2018

19/07/2018

The 5th. Executive Board Meeting of the DiMSUR is happening on July 18-19th in Maputo, Mozambique.
The 5th Meeting of the Executive Board is convened to: brief the DiMSUR EB members regarding the activities in 2017/2018; present the progress made with the City Resilience Action Planning (CityRAP) tool; and to discuss and agree on the way forward.

The Minister of Economy and Finance from Mozambique opened the meeting emphasizing that we must acknowledge that the impacts of climate change do not distinguish legal and social borders of the countries therefore we must work togethers as countries.

12/04/2018

Confira como foi o Seminário Nacional do CityRAP em Cabo Verde organizado pela ONU-Habitat Cabo Verde

Objectivo é a troca de experiências entre os municípios de Praia, Sal e Santa Catarina do Fogo Abril 2017 - O seminário nacional da ferramenta CityRAP foi realizado na cidade da Praia, em Cabo Verde no mês de março. As primeiras cidades a implementarem a ferramenta foram Praia, Sal e Santa Cat...