Local Contribution to Union Disaster Resilience Goals

The EU had adopted Sendai FWA and Agenda 2030 in 2015 including its transformative concepts like the MCR 2030 campaign, which helped cities to contribute to global disaster resilience goals. An important question that remained unsolved was the contribution of the local “community level”, which is most affected by the occurrence of natural disasters.
In its own interest EU has now amended its legislation to develop Union Disaster Resilience Goals (DRG) using its Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), which is, like the MCR2030 Campaign, mentioned in the EU Sendai Action Plan as a key driver for local level implementation of the Sendai priority to ‘strengthen disaster risk governance to manage disaster risks’. The document also proclaims the need to develop inclusive local and national disaster risk reduction strategies, with active engagement of local actors - authorities, communities and civil society.
This is precisely how the local level and RESILOC can contribute to the Union Disaster Resilience Goals.
The contribution to the UDRGs needs to start with local resilience assessments that are based on community-specific scenarios, resilience Indicators and local targets, all of which will be defined in a co-creative manner involving local experts and key stakeholders from the community. The output would be a Community Resilience Action Plan/Strategy that is based on local needs as a contribution from the local level “Community” to the EU Level. At the same time it the local level needs support from the EU level in form of information from science and experts to be able to integrate global scenarios and best practices in their local transition from risk to resilience thinking.