Makati City Skyline. Photo by Randy Lemoine

Makati City gets award for city-to-city cooperation

ICLEI Member Makati City in the Philippines has scooped an award for an innovative city-to-city learning partnership between Quito, the capital of Ecuador, and the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.

Kathmandu and Quito, both ICLEI Members, benchmarked Makati City on emergency management systems and community-based disaster management.

In turn, Quito's 'Atlas of Natural Hazards and Risks' was benchmarked by Makati and Kathmandu, while Quito and Makati learnt from Kathmandu's experience with private sector organizations in disaster risk management and public awareness campaigns.

The City-to-City Cooperation award was presented this week during the 25th anniversary meeting of CITYNET, the Asia-Pacific local authority network, in Surabaya, Indonesia.

Accepting the award on behalf of Makati City, senior adviser and ICLEI Resilient Cities programme committee member Violeta Seva, said, "We are honoured to be recognised along with Quito and Kathmandu for raising awareness for strategies to reduce disaster risks. We are now ready to share this model with cities around the world."

The aim of the City-to-City Cooperation Awards is to highlight the best examples of cooperation amongst cities and local government.

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