UD-RASP is a pilot and demonstration project focusing on urban resilience to disasters.
The UD-RASP project aims at enhancing urban multi-hazard disaster prevention and resilience in Tunisia, using the city of Monastir as a pilot case. Funded by the European Commission Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO), the project will develop a standardized procedure to provide reliable data and information on urban growth and disaster risk trends in this pilot area. This will be achieved by integrating geospatial data derived from high-resolution satellite imagery, available socioeconomic data, and information obtained from expert interviews into a multi-hazard risk assessment. The project will provide a methodology for resilient cities through the integration of risk information into urban disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies in accordance with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030), applicable to urban environments in Tunisia and further North African countries.
Under the lead of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mhb (IABG), the project consortium consists of two further partners, including United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and the Municipality of Monastir.
The project consists of six inter-twined work packages and covers stakeholder engagement, baseline documentation, retrospective analysis, multi-hazard risk assessment, future risk scenario, implementation of an online information system and capacity building
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KEY FACTS
| Subject: | Urban Resilience to Disasters |
| Contracting Authority: | European Commission DG ECHO – European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Unit A4 - Civil Protection Policy L86 04/40 BE-1049 Brussels/Belgium |
| Area of Activity: | Tunisia |
| Start Date: | 2017-01-01 |
| End Date: | 2018-06-30 |
| Project Status: | Ongoing |
| Project Type: | EC - DG Echo - Prevention Priority |
| Project Manager: | Felicitas Bellert (IABG) |
| Coordinator: | IABG, Einsteinstraße 20, 85521 Ottobrunn, Germany www.iabg.de |
| Partner Germany: | United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) – UN Campus, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1, 53113 Bonn, Germany www.ehs.unu.edu |
| Partner Tunisia: | Municipality of Monastir, Avenue Habib Bourguiba 5019 Monastir, Tunisia www.monastirweb.org |
WEBLINKS
NEWS
The final workshop took place on October 4th 2018 in Monastir/Tunisia
Annual Conference of TRIALOG 2018 / Dortmund/Germany / June 2018
AUM2018 - Allpied Urban Modelling / Cambridge/Great Britain / June 2018
Basic training in GIS - March 2018 - completed, Participants: Team Monastir, Monastir - Tunisia
GIS advanced training - 18-22 June 2018 - completed, Participants: Team Monastir, Dresden - Germany
Internal Workshop "Risk Assessment - Results" - 3 October 2018 - completed, Participants: Team Monastir
Interviews with stakeholder have been executed in Monastir. By means of an extensive questionnaire, information was collected in several parts.
