Smart ways to mobilise more efficient and effective long-term investment in city regions

The report presents suggestions of how new tools, including risk assessment and resilience, can be used to harness investment to finance urban development at household, municipal, national and global level. It highlights that investment, particularly in basic service infrastructures, is an essential condition for sustainable urban development.

Given the dependency of urban development on effective disaster risk reduction, the report highlights the importance of using a more integrated approach to support the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and the sustainable development and climate change international framework agreements. In addition, the report explains the critical role of the HFA in strengthening and guiding international cooperation efforts and in generating the political momentum necessary to ensure that disaster risk reduction be used as a foundation for sound national and international development agendas.