Lokoja, the Kogi State capital is one of the ten cities selected by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat for its City Resilience Profiling Programme CRPP. The announcement was made last week in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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Working thu partnerships with stakeholders including international agencies such as United Nations Office for Disaster Risk reduction UNISDR, academic and research institutes, private sector actors, and non-governmental organisations, NGOs, the CRPP will develop a comprehensive and integrated urban planning and management approach for profiling and monitoring the resilience of any city, to all plausible hazards.
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A release by d global habitat group explained that the tools and guidelines developed under the Programme will be tested and refined in: Balangoda (Sri Lanka), Barcelona (Spain), Beirut (Lebanon), Dagupan (Philippines).