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Phase Three: Developing a Safe and Resilient City Action Plan 8. Define the plan’s vision, objectives and actions • Define the vision of the disaster risk reduction action plan and its mission. • Establish the principles that guide the plan. • Agree upon the plan’s strategic lines and objectives.
9. Programmes and projects • Identify programmes to be developed and implemented by the plan. • Select which projects—within each programme—will be carried out, based on the priorities established for the short-, medium- and long term.
10. Institutionalize and sustain the disaster risk reduction plan • Prepare a draft disaster risk reduction plan; convene stakeholders to validate it and integrate their observations. • Prepare a final plan in easy-to-understand language. • Give legal validity to the plan to ensure that it serves as the city’s guiding policy for disaster risk reduction. • Incorporate all elements of the disaster risk reduction plan into the city’s development plan. • Publish and widely disseminate the plan to ensure that the entire community is fully aware of its content.
Phase Four: Implementing the Plan 11. Implementation and ressource mobilization • Develop an implementation strategy for the plan with short-, medium- and long-term activities and priorities. • Define and clearly organize the structure, responsibilities and roles of all city agencies, actors and the community. • Establish the necessary mechanisms and promote the management and mobilization of resources and financing for implementation of the plan’s projects.
12. Ensure broad participation and ownership • Establish and guarantee the validity of formal and informal institutional mechanisms that will allow all actors to take ownership of the plan. • Establish partnerships and alliances at the local, national and international level for implementation of the plan. • Enlist the support of all sectors and actors city-wide in the preparation of the projects under each
the disaster risk reduction plan’s programmes.