Purpose of Session: Discuss gaps, blind spots, and things We Wish We’d Have Known Sooner
Profile
Aniessa Delima Sari
Aniessa Delima Sari is Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) programme manager at Mercy Corps Indonesia. With more than five years experiences in urban resilience work, Aniessa leads partnerships with the Association of the Indonesian Municipalities (APEKSI), National Government and private sector companies, with the aim of assisting and facilitating cities in Indonesia to develop resilience plan, implement resilience actions, and share knowledge for advocacy purposes.
Outline
(5 minutes context on Engaging the Right City Stakeholders) Building urban resilience requires inclusiveness and collaboration.
Who’s the right people/organization to engage to accelerate the efforts of building city resilience? Some normal on the roles of stakeholders may include, the role of city government as regulatory body (develop policy), the role of academia to do research, the role of local NGO to assist communities and the role of communities to receive benefits and ideally taking part in the implementation of resilience actions (intervention projects).
Is there any surprises (good or bad) in the role that they play as an organization in building resilience? Any specific organizations/people that turns out to have a significant role to accelerate the efforts of building resilience?
Different cities might have different ways in making sure that urban resilience efforts is inclusive. Say, mainstream the concept of urban resilience to the city mid-term plans, making sure
vulnerable groups is involved in the design and implementation of projects, to involving wide range of stakeholders in resilience actions. But how do we ensure/what is the mechanism in place to ensure that urban resilience efforts remains inclusive?
On Collaboration
One of the challenges is to involve business sector. (insert facts)
Just like the other entities in the city, they also impacted by any shocks and stress that the city are facing. And just like everyone, they can contribute to the efforts of building resilience Drawing from your experiences and success in partnering with business sector, we will learn from each other;
