Hello Everybody and special thanks to Dr Bernadia for promoting cities. My comments are as follows; - motivate Local Government leaders to invest in DRR and resilience - By intereacting with the Local Government Leaders actively thro' some donor funded projects and Institutionalise the DRR activities in cities. City of Colombo has it's own Disaster Management Committee to work towards DRR. - encourage national actions to improve DRR implementation at local level - Develop mechanisms to Improve and strengthen the relationship between national and local governments. - enhance collaboration between citizen groups and local governments for effective risk reduction - Develop mechanisms to strengthen the relationship between citizen groups and local governments, For ex. Invite citizen groups to the Disaster Management Committee led by the Mayor.