The Cities Cluster on Disaster and Risk Reduction & Mitigation in Resilient Cities offers a space for knowledge sharing and collaboration between cities partners of the global South on how to create and implement measures to enhance disaster resilience at the local level.
Disaster risk reduction is an important component for achieving sustainable development of cities, when the world is steadily becoming more urban. By 2050, over 60% of the world’s population will be living in urban areas, making urban resilience vital for accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals and achieving other global frameworks (UNDRR, 2020a). Fast-growing cities and urban areas of the world, mostly located in the global South, increase disaster risk due to economic growth and fast population expansion.