Enhancing city-to-city sharing and social participation in disaster risk reduction

This proceedings report documents the presentation highlights, discussions and policy lessons from the Americas Megacities Forum held on 19-21 September 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico. It contains an Executive Summary and session reports on four thematic areas, namely:
(1) Progress in Disaster Risk Mitigation in Mexico,
(2) Approaches and Tools in Disaster Risk Mitigation,
(3) Enhancing City-to-City Sharing in the Americas Cluster, and
(4) Social Participation in Risk Mitigation Programs.

It also includes a short description of the Share Fair, an interactive peer-to-peer sharing and learning activity where participating cities discuss disaster risk reduction sound practices and experience with each other.