EMI expert and local stakeholders examine resilience of Mumba is basic services to disaster risks
Mr. Farouk Tebbal is off to Mumbai to conduct a “Shelter and Disaster Risk Resiliency Workshop” with the officials from the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), the State of Maharashtra, and representatives from civil society organizations on 7 November 2009 at MCGM, Mumbai, India. Mr. Tebbal will assist MCGM officials and other local stakeholders assess the social and institutional vulnerability of Mumbai’s basic services to disasters. These include building repair, water and sanitation, health, education, power, and transportation.
Mr. Tebbal is EMI’s expert on housing, urban policy, and urban development for the Disaster Risk Reduction in Mumbai, a two-year collaborative undertaking of EMI and MCGM to develop a disaster risk management master plan and a competent DRM focal office within the city government.
The workshop will be divided into three parts. The first part will look into the ways in which disasters affect the delivery of basic services. In the second part, the participants will propose some recommendations on how to mainstream disaster risk reduction into Mumbai’s basic sectors. The third part will focus on organizing a Focus Group for shelter and disaster risk resiliency. This Focus Group will be composed of government offices and city departments such as Western Railway, Civil Defense, MCGM departments on water, sanitation, health, education, power, and transportation, Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, water and sanitation unit of the Government of Maharashtra, and civil society organizations.
Outputs from the workshop will serve as inputs to analyzing Mumbai’s overall risk to disasters—a critical component to the development of a comprehensive disaster risk management master plan for Mumbai.
For more information about the Disaster Risk Reduction in Mumbai, visit the project’s webpage: http://www.emi-megacities.org/projects/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=11&Itemid=126.
Mr. Tebbal is EMI’s expert on housing, urban policy, and urban development for the Disaster Risk Reduction in Mumbai, a two-year collaborative undertaking of EMI and MCGM to develop a disaster risk management master plan and a competent DRM focal office within the city government.
The workshop will be divided into three parts. The first part will look into the ways in which disasters affect the delivery of basic services. In the second part, the participants will propose some recommendations on how to mainstream disaster risk reduction into Mumbai’s basic sectors. The third part will focus on organizing a Focus Group for shelter and disaster risk resiliency. This Focus Group will be composed of government offices and city departments such as Western Railway, Civil Defense, MCGM departments on water, sanitation, health, education, power, and transportation, Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, water and sanitation unit of the Government of Maharashtra, and civil society organizations.
Outputs from the workshop will serve as inputs to analyzing Mumbai’s overall risk to disasters—a critical component to the development of a comprehensive disaster risk management master plan for Mumbai.
For more information about the Disaster Risk Reduction in Mumbai, visit the project’s webpage: http://www.emi-megacities.org/projects/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=11&Itemid=126.
