The ISRM Global Urban Resilience / Major City Management program has attracted world-wide support since its launch at the start of 2024.
Based on work done previously in partnership with the UK National Preparedness Commission, International Federation of Red Cross / Red Crescent Societies and the EU Erasmus-funded BUiLD programme (Building Universities for Leading in Disaster Resilience) as well as multiple other academic, research and policy institutions, the second stage of the programme was launched in June 2024 with the initiation of the Management Award in Global Urban Resilience and Major City Management.
Attracting a global audience of academics, practitioners and policy makers, it established the programme as a significant voice in the global urban resilience dialogue.
In order to offer a platform to the global community involved in all aspects of urban resilience in its widest terms, the ISRM, together with partner organisations, has instigated a series of monthly programmes that will explore different aspects of global resilience from a multi-stranded and multi-level perspective.
Each month’s programme will cover its own theme and will offer both sector experts and those with wider, non-specific interests to be involved in a dialogue that will allow the sharing of cutting-edge academic work and existing best practices together with the exploration of future potential scenarios and opportunities.
Each monthly theme will offer participants the opportunity to contribute to an ISRM Special Edition Journal on that specific subject, which over the course of twelve months should build into a significant resource that can be used for further policy-orientated and action-orientated activities. As with all of our programmes, the ISRM welcomes participation and collaboration from anyone interested in these issues, and who feel that they have a contribution to make.
