AMARE SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE
| Yes | No | I don't know | |
| 1. Has your city been involved in a city-wide hazard / risk assessment process |
| Yes | No | I don't know | |
| 2. Does your city have evacuation plans and evacuation exercises? |
| Yes, involving citizens and/or civil society organizations | Yes, but not involving citizens and/or civil society organizations | No | I don't know | |
| Do you regularly plan city wide drills? |
| Yes | No | I don't know | |
| 3. Are the financial priorities of your city for disaster resilience clearly set? |
| 0-5 % | 5 - 15 % | 15 - 30 % | Above said percentages | Not sure | |
| 4. What is the percentage of non-native residents who currently live in your city limits |
| Yes | No | I don't know | |
| 5. Does your city have a system of maintaining awareness about distribution of non-native communities in its territory? |
| Yes | No | I don't know | |
| 6. Is there a designated department within city administration dedicated to working with migrant communities? |
| Yes | No | I don't know | |
| 7. Has your city mapped and identified non-native community leaders and associations |
| Yes | No | I don't know | |
| 8. Are the evacuation plans used by your city available in any of the languages spoken by non-native communities that reside in the city? |
| Yes | No | I don't know | |
| 9. Are there explanations of the evacuation plans using images/graphic symbols? |
| Yes | No | I don't know | |
| 10. Does your city have an ongoing collaboration with a pool of linguistic and cultural mediators? |
| Yes | No | I don't know | |
| 11. Has your city a programme to integrate non-native population into the community’s emergency management / civil protection organisations? |
| Yes | No | I don't know | |
| 12. Does the civil protection personnel of your city have to take courses on inter-cultural competence in emergency response? |
13. Which
alert system does the municipality use to communicate risk to non-native
people?
| Yes | No | |
| Are Television & Radio used? | ||
| Are Social Media used | ||
| Are Megaphones / Phones used? | ||
| Other things? |
SUMMARY
Your Region/City:
Your position / role is:
Risk awareness
Your city is highly aware of the potential risks it is exposed to (both
natural and manmade) and has made significant steps in order to place an
infrastructure of information that will support this awareness.
For more ideas on improving integrative planning for disaster recovery, see the Lincoln Institute website.
Your city is aware to a certain extent of the potential risks it is exposed
to (both natural and manmade), and though steps have been taken to create an
infrastructure of awareness from which the city can begin to build its
resilience to such events, further steps are still necessary to develop it.
Your city has yet to develop the means to create an infrastructure of
awareness to the risks it is exposed to and the dangers this exposure brings
with it.
Understanding the need for such an infrastructure is an important first
step towards building the necessary awareness to endure exposure to risk. We
suggest starting your journey towards building resilience by visiting the 100-resilient-cities
experience. Websites and the following documents available through
the AMARE-EU on-line
library:
·
City
Resilience Profiling Tool
·
La
città resiliente. Strategie e azioni di resilienza urbana in Italia e nel mondo
Capacity for management of the presence of non-native residents
Your city demonstrates a high capacity to accommodate and manage the
presence of non-native residents, as part of a general agenda that places an
importance on diversity and inclusion for a wide variety of cultural origins.
On the AMARE-EU on-line
library you can find additional ideas ad instruments to further
improve your capacity to work with non-native communities, among which:
·
The
ECCAR Toolkit for Equality
·
Good
Ideas from Successful Cities: Municipal Leadership in Immigrant Integration
Your city shows a fair capacity to accommodate and manage the presence of
non-native residents. A stronger emphasis needs to be placed on furthering such
development as part of a general agenda of diversity and inclusion for
residents from a wide variety of cultural origins.
More information and ideas on these topics can be found in the AMARE-EU
on-line library:
·
The
Role of Cities in Immigrant Integration
·
Good
Ideas from Successful Cities: Municipal Leadership in Immigrant Integration
Tools and/or measures to better understand the scope or presence of
non-native communities within the city do not seem to be in place, so
progressing with an agenda of diversity and inclusion may be difficult at this
point. Beginning with a plan towards integration of all communities in city
limits is an important first step towards increasing resilience.
A visit to Intercultural cities website and to the AMARE-EU on-line library could be good way to increase awareness and to start working on these topics in an organic and effective way.
Capacity for fostering a culture of resilience
Your city has a high capacity to involve
and inform citizens of different origins on how to make their city a safer
place to live.
A further exploration of integrative tools on that can help inform both
citizens and city planners is available at this link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/research
In the AMARE-EU on-line library you could also find the following resources:
·
Community
Based Disaster Risk Reduction
·
Emergenze
e Intercultura – L’esperienza del sisma in Emilia-Romagna nel 2012
Your city has a fair capacity to involve and inform citizens of different origins
on how to make their city a safer place to live.
To continue on the path towards engaging all citizens in the process of
resilience and growth, we suggest visiting the Intercultural
cities website and the AMARE-EU on-line
library, where you
can find some useful case studies from recent international experiences.
Your city has currently a limited capacity to involve and inform citizens of
different origins on how to make their city a safer place to live was not a
priority for your city so far. A variety of strategies could be implemented to
modify this situation and better integrate non-native citizens in overall city
resilience and risk prevention strategies.
To begin understanding the level of
interculturalism present in your city, and engage in a process of integration,
we suggest looking at the
Intercultural
cities website and the AMARE-EU on-line
library, where you can also find examples of informative material on
different type of risks that can be used to start raising awareness among
non-native residents.
TO KNOW MORE:
In addition to the AMARE-EU on-line
library, our team of
experts are at your disposal through the affiliate organizations working in the
AMARE-EU project. List of our partners is available here: www.amareproject.eu/who-are-we/
On the subject of Risk Awareness, please consider PPI-Prepared
International. On the subject of Integration and multiculturalism, see Lai-Momo
and Groupe SOS Solidarités. For urban resilience experiences, can refet to the
City of Vejle.
From November 30, 2018 to January
31, 2019, you can also candidate your city to become one of the 4 Pilot Cities of the AMARE-EU project,
that will receive free training,
assistance and mentoring for implementing innovative and low-cost tools for the enhancement of urban resilience in
a multicultural and inclusive perspective.
