THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT SELF ASSESSMENT TOOL(LG-SAT)

Some known facts

• By 2020, it is projected that there will be 527 cities with a population of more than 1 million, while the average size of the world’s 100 largest cities will have reached 8.5 million

• Urban areas, with their high concentration of population, industries and infrastructure, are likely to face the most severe impacts of Disaster.

• When a disaster strikes not just it affects poor but too the economy of State & Nation.

• Sustainable development can not be achieved without taking into account the risk of natural hazards

• Impacts of disaster are most immediately and intensely felt at the local level

Natural and human-made disasters have been on the rise worldwide since the 1950s, coinciding with the rise in world urban population, today  worlds majority are

living in Cities Governs by Local Government

Urbanization : DisasterUrbanization : Disaster

Source: UNHABITAT, 2011

Why a local government review?

• Provides a feedback mechanism for local governments and facilitate the understanding of gaps and challenges in disaster risk reduction at the local level which is currently missing.

• Complements the national HFA monitoring and multi-stakeholder engagement process by providing information and an assessment of the situation from the local level.

• To establish a continuous feedback mechanism for development planning processes both at national and local level.

• Present a “baseline” and a status report for cities and municipalities that have committed to the Making Cities Resilient Campaign – and share this information with other cities participating ( or planning to) in the campaign.

Who does the local HFA review?

Governments at local level

The local HFA review process is intended to be a multi-stakeholder review process led by the local governments4 at the local level. The main actors of this multi- stakeholder local HFA review process are local government authorities, civil society organizations, community based organizations and so forth. The involvement of civil society organizations and community based organizations is essential to the success of the review process and thus all local authorities are highly encouraged to ensure adequate participation of civil society and community based organizations in the consultations.

The local government sub-sector consists of local governments that are separate institutional units plus those which are controlled and mainly financed by local governments.  In principle, local government units are institutional units whose fiscal, legislative and executive authority extends over the smallest geographical areas distinguished for administrative and political purposes. 

Local feedback loop

National, Regional and

global level

Sub/ regional HFA review processRegional/ sub regional synthesis and review of trans-boundary issues

Global analysis and synthesis process

Contributing to the larger process

National HFA progress review processSelf- assessment of countries to review their own progress, gaps and challenges

in Disaster Risk Reduction efforts

Local level

What is the LG -SAT

Alike the National process, the local HFA review is not a monitoring process of UNISDR. The purpose is to provide tools and guidelines to local governments that will assist them in initiating discussion on risk reduction issues and presumably enhance understanding of gaps and challenges in reducing risk. The review process and participation of the local governments is purely voluntary in nature.

Local HFA review - Indicators

• 43 key questions aligned to• 5 HFA priority of action• 5 level of progress

• Prepared in consultation with local government representatives, civil society network and partners

• Derived from the ‘HFA Indicators of Progress’

• Complements the “ Making Cities Resilient Campaign”

A few indicators…• Are financial services (e.g. saving and credit

schemes, macro and micro-insurance) available to vulnerable and marginalised households for pre- and/or post-disaster times?

• Does the local government have access to adequate financial resources to carry out risk reduction activities in your city/municipality?

• Has the city / municipality conducted thorough disaster risk assessments for various development sectors in your city/municipality?

• Does the local government have emergency plans in place to deal with possible mass casualty needs?

• and so on…

Begin

Interim

Mar – Aug 2012

Interim

Jul 2012 – Nov 2012

Oct 2011 – May 2012

Interim

Dec 2012 – Mar2013

Final

Final

Final

HOW would the review take place

• Review process will be carried out through a web based on-line system as well as a paper based template

• LGs call for multi-stakeholder consultation

• Self assessment to assess the progress/status through local context specific indicators

• Share the status with all local departments and entities and report the progress on the online tool (LG-SAT)

Roll out and status of the Local HFA review process

• The Local HFA review process as a pilot was rolled out by December 2010 for selected local authorities globally. In order to demonstrate the complementarity between the local, national and city monitoring process, UNISDR in partnership with DG ECHO and the Global Network of Civil Societies for Disaster Risk Reduction conducted five pilot in Armenia, Indonesia, Mozambique, Nepal and Peru. The main aim of the pilot initiative will be to facilitate the multi-stakeholder engagement process involving local authorities, civil society organizations and the national government; and to draw lessons and gather feedback on the indicators, tools and methodology at the same time.

• Following the pilots 26 LGs were identified (also part of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign) namely to conduct the first

• From the above 26 LGs 16 ( from the region) are currently conducting their local review and a consultation has been organized based on the review at UNISDR – GETI in October 2011;

• Starting October 2011 the Local Government Self Assessment Tool would be made available for all globally.

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