A Consultation Workshop was held in Makati, Philippines on May 13-14, 2008 by the World Bank, International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (ISDR), and CityNet to discuss the findings and recommendations from the draft final version of the Primer with city representatives and obtain their suggestions. The World Bank Country Director for the Philippines, the Regional Coordinator for ISDR, the Secretary General for CityNet (see CityNet's newsletter -pdf- featuring the Primer), and the Mayor of Makati City provided opening remarks.

Over 50 participants from 15 cities across the region attended the Workshop and provided comments that were incorporated into the final version of the Primer. Break-out groups provided feedback on five themes—overall value added of the Primer; usability; applicability of case studies; usefulness of the "hot spot" analysis; and the links between climate change and disaster risk management in the Primer. Materials from the workshop can be found below, including the agenda, presentations, and related documents.

Agenda (326kb pdf)

Plenary Presentations:

• A Primer on Climate Change Impacts and Disaster Risk Management in Urban Areas of East Asia, Zoe Trohanis and Ravi Sinha, WB (287kb pdf)
• Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts and Related Natural Disasters in East Asia, Jerry Velasquez, UN/ISDR (5.26mb pdf)
• Climate Change and Urban Risk: Challenges and Potentials, Rajib Shaw, Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies (823kb pdf)
• Surabaya, Eko Kurniawan Purnomo, Surabaya City, Indonesia (1.54mb pdf)
• Mumbai, Vilas V. Vaidya, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, India(2.20mb pdf)
• Chiang Mai, Rongrong Duriyapunt, Chiang Mai Municipality, Thailand (10.5mb pdf)
• Dagupan, Dr. Leonard Carbonell, Dagupan City, Philippines (4.11mb pdf)
• Banda Aceh, Mr. Bahagia, Banda Aceh, Indonesia (6.88mb pdf)
• Kuala Lumpur, Abdul Kadir, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (397kb pdf)

Break Out Groups:

• Break-Out Group 1: Evaluating the Case Studies in the Primer (150kb pdf)
• Break-Out Group 2: Improving the Hot Spots Analysis in the Primer (152kb pdf)
• Break-Out Group 3: Increasing the Usability of the Primer (43kb pdf)
• Break-Out Group 4: Strengthening the Link Between Climate Change and DRM in the Primer (46kb pdf)
• Break-Out Group 5: What is the Value Addition of the Primer? (36kb pdf)

Other Workshop-related Documents:

• Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation - Avoiding the Unmanageable, Managing the Unavoidable (167kb pdf)
• Summary of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (Hyogo Framework) (56kb pdf)
• Sub-paragraphs 1(c) (ii, iii) of the Bali Action Plan: Background and Options for Reducing Disaster Risks (140kb pdf)