SFVC Umbrella Initiatives: Driving collective action for a resilient future

The SFVC Umbrella Initiatives represent comprehensive programs, agreements, and plans that bring together a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve shared objectives. By fostering collaboration and partnership across sectors, these initiatives offer a joint approach to addressing common challenges and driving sustainable progress.

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With a broad vision and mission, each umbrella initiative extends its scope to include a wide network of partners, aligning their efforts towards common goals. Whether you are a local government, private sector entity, or civil society organization, you can contribute to and benefit from these coordinated efforts to create impactful, lasting change.

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"Making Cities Resilient 2030" Umbrella Initiative related Commitments

Group of local authorities and community members standing in a burnt landscape after a bushfire in Wompou, Guidimakha, Mauritania.
National (or local) - Mauritania
New
Community Mechanism for NbS and Eco-DRR in Guidimakha, Mauritania
This commitment strengthens climate and disaster resilience in Guidimakha, Mauritania through community-led Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and eco-DRR, addressing floods, drought, heatwaves and wildfires, with a replication and learning window for Nouakchott’s coastal/littoral resilience (2026–2028).
Retrofitting Workshop at Chandragiri ward 7, Kathmandu
National (or local) - Nepal
New
Completed
Resilient Nepal: Earthquake Retrofitting and Disaster Risk Reduction in Kathmandu
Youth for Good - Nepal conducted retrofitting workshops to enhance earthquake resilience in Nepal, focusing on using sustainable materials. Over 300 participants from Kathmandu district were trained, improving local capacity in disaster risk reduction and structural safety, aligning with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Brochure
Regional - Africa
New
Enhancing Disaster Risk Reduction in African Cities (DRR4Africa project)
The DRR4Africa project seeks to improve the resilience of three African cities from climate-induced disasters by collaboratively identifying the biggest disaster threats, and developing solutions packages tailored to these cities.
National (or local) - Japan, Mongolia
Active
City-to-city learning between Sendai and Ulaanbaatar
The workshop aims to contribute to urban resilience efforts in Mongolia and Japan by facilitating information exchange and peer learning.
National (or local) - Portugal
Active
Risk Reduction Awareness Program in the Municipality of Amadora
The development of awareness-raising programs to reduce risk is essential for the mobilization and participation of citizens in prevention and mitigation strategies, in order to increase public awareness of the risks existing in the municipality.
National (or local) - Japan
New
Matsuyama City method of disaster prevention “Developing disaster prevention leaders for all generations – seamlessly from elementary school students to the elderly”
The ``Establishment of the Matsuyama City Disaster Prevention Education Promotion Council'' started in May 2019, and it is continuing to work on developing and fostering disaster prevention leaders in Matsuyama City, including within industry, government, academia, and citizens.
National (or local) - Portugal
Active
Senior Academy for Civil Protection: the active role of the elderly in DRR
This project is aimed for senior population who want to collaborate with Amadora Civil Protection. In this project, all the volunteers are trained to acquire disaster risk reduction skills and knowledge to implement and strength a safety culture in the city.
National (or local) - Philippines
Progress not updated
Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Land Use Planning in Quezon City
The project aims to enhance the competencies of the Quezon City Technical Working Group by conducting Risk-Sensitive Land Use Planning training and mentoring sessions to build on the previous collaboration with the QC government on the development of their Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan
National (or local) - Italy
Deliverable update needed
Progress not updated
Strengthening inclusive Resilience to Disasters boosting Sustainable Development
Re-assessment, monitoring and reviewing the level of Resilience of the Province of Potenza's 100 Municipalities’ network by means of a city-to-city peer review based on a multistakeholders and holistic approach to DRR
Regional - Asia, Oceania
Progress not updated
Promoting the Making Cities Resilient and Sustainable Campaign in Asia Pacific
The programme contributes to the increase in the number of Local Governments (LGs) that sign the Making Cities Resilient (MCR) Campaign. It fosters the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction at the local level and supports city DRR action plans to meet Target E.

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When submitting your Voluntary Commitment (VC), you have the option to specify whether your initiative is aligned with or in support of an existing umbrella initiative. These include global and regional frameworks like Making Cities Resilient (MCR), the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE), and Sendai Gender Action Plan, all of which exemplify the power of collective action in addressing resilience, climate change, and sustainable development.

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