Dubai Municipality: ‘Creating an Excellent City that provides the Essence of Success and Comfort of Living’ Engr. Redha Salman Director, Public Health & Safety Department

Achievements Establishment of the National level and Emirate level Disaster Committees; Addressing disaster challenges and possible episodes based on unified risk matrix; Benchmarking response, rescue, preparedness with best practices, proven systems and state-of-the-art technology; Linking day-to-day work program (e.g. sanitation, public safety, drainage, etc.) with disaster risk reduction.

Added Value Finalization of DM Corporate Emergency Management System linked with the Campaign; Identified platform for sharing and collaboration; Open discussion of issues.

Gaps (or Opportunities) Agree on a priority list of actions and programs within the campaign; Standardize Disaster Reduction/Disaster Preparedness terminologies and terms; Establish quantitative/performance measurements for benchmarking; Provide a formal learning/educational platform for training and preparing different sectors and members of society to deal with disaster reduction.