Reducing Earthquake Risk in Greater Amman Municipality, Jordan
EMI’s mission of reducing disaster risks in cities and major metropolises is now gaining ground in one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world—Amman, Jordan.
The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) has partnered with EMI to develop a Disaster Risk Management Master Plan (DRMMP) that will guide local authorities in understanding and reducing the City’s risks to earthquake hazards.
The project is carried out under the auspices of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Country Office in Jordan.
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 01:57 |
The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) has approved the tender request for a city-wide social structure survey in relation to EMI's Megacities Indicators Project in Istanbul, Turkey. The tender was approved on January 19, 2009 with a budget of US$400,000 allocated for the survey.
The survey will be used to derive data for the customized application of EMI's Megacity Indicators System (MIS, also called MEGA-Index) in Istanbul. Specifically, it covers the following indicators: Dependency, Economic Deprivation, Mobility, Healthcare Services, Risk Mitigation (structural, non-structural, financial), Risk Awareness, Social Networks/Solidarity.
The survey was developed based on a 30-point questionnaire prepared by the MIS Core Group headed by Dr. Bijan Khazai from the EMI side, and vetted in an internal workshop with IMM staff, which included social scientists from IMM strategic planning department. The first of its kind in Istanbul, the survey aims to cover 36,500 households within 170 days. |
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Thursday, 08 January 2009 06:37 |
EMI approaches the final leg of its Cross-Cutting Capacity Development (3cd) Program in Amman, Jordan as its team of experts heads off to the city on 10-14 January 2009 for the third and final field investigation.Technical staff and researchers from Greater Amman Municipality, General Directorate of Civil Defense, Yarmouk University and EMI will come together in a multi-stakeholder and participatory platform to:
- Engage key government agencies in a focused consultation process to discuss and validate the draft DRMMP Framework of Amman;
- Collect feedback and comments on the Draft Amman DRMMP from various sectors and stakeholders of GAM;
- Consolidate recommendations based on inputs from stakeholders and integrate these in the final draft of the Amman DRMMP Framework; and
- Conduct consultations on the scope for following work in order to complete the DRMMP process.
Dr. Fouad Bendimerad, EMI Chairman, leads the team with Dr. Marqueza Reyes (Project Manager and Urban Disaster Risk Reduction Specialist), Atty. Violeta Seva (Legal and Institutional Expert), Dr. Bijan Kazai (Geotechnical and Spatial Analysis Expert/Seismic Risk Analyst), and Jeannette Fernandez (DRMMP Advisor).
The 3cd Program in Amman, Jordan aims to develop a Disaster Risk Management Master Plan (DRMMP) that will guide local authorities in understanding and reducing Amman’s risks to earthquake hazards.
See detailed agenda of the trip here. |
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UNDP - Earthquake Risk Reduction in Amman, Jordan
