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Managing Urban Risks and Building Resilience - World

Managing Urban Risks and Building Resilience Format Flood in Quang Binh, Vietnam. © UNDP Statement delivered by Asako Okai at the Development Dialogues Session on Urban Resilience- Managing Urban Risks and Building Resilience: An Old Challenge Has Gained New Urgency. Distinguished Panelists, participants, colleagues and friends, A warm welcome to all. In today’s discussion, we framed Urban resilience as ‘an old challenge gaining new urgency’. Although this imperative has been evident for long, it has become central to today’s development discourse. The impact of Covid-19 was predominantly ‘urban’, with nearly 90% of the people affected and major socio-economic disruption caused, in cities. It has exposed the ‘soft underbelly’ of our urban development, governance and risk management systems.

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