مشاريع منفذه

About

Tomorrow’s Cities works internationally, to reduce disaster risk for the poor and most marginalized in future development. It facilitates a transition from reactive crisis management to proactive risk-informed, people-centred, and pro-poor urban planning of future development in 10 cities worldwide, including Nablus City in Palestine.

Tomorrow’s Cities is a peer-led initiative managed by University College London and the University of Edinburgh. Initially funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) as one of 12 Hubs under the UKRI GCRF Hubs initiative, this project aligns with the UK AID strategy, placing research at the heart of efforts to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The project supports risk sensitive urban planning through the following:

• Generating Action Plans to improve institutional capability, taking proactive steps to mitigate risks associated with urban growth. 
• Conducting multi-hazard risk and climate change analyses for future development using state-of-the-art science and the best available data.  
• Assessing the future consequences of urban development decisions, including various possible impacts from natural hazards.
• Supporting an integrated approach to urban planning by bringing together local actors and policymakers from across different agencies/sectors. 
• Raising public awareness and engagement in the decisions and trade-offs between urban growth, planning, risk, and resilience. 
• Strengthening technical capacity within local, city, and national agencies to sustain lessons learned towards the future.  
• Web-based, open-access visualisation and analysis tools are available without specific software or technical knowledge.

An-Najah University leads the project implementation in Nablus City in collaboration with several local partners:

•  Municipality of Nablus
•  Municipality of Sarra
•  Ministry of Local Governance (MoLG)
•  Municipal Development and Lending Fund (MDLF)
•  National Center Disaster Risk Management (NDRRMC)
•  North Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCO)

The international project has a wide global network of partners led by:

• University College London (UCL), UK
• University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Outcomes

The deployment of Tomorrow’s Cities in Nablus opened the path to transform the city’s planning, embedding a future-focused, multi-hazard strategy into its core. By uniting local authorities, national stakeholders, and marginalised communities, it has built lasting technical capacity and shared responsibility, positioning Nablus as a model of resilience against climate change and seismic threats. For more details about the impacts of the Tomorrow Cities project, see Nablus Impact Story: 

https://tomorrowscities.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Nablus-Impact-Story-1.pdf

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نبذة عن المشروع

بتمويل من البنك الدولي وبإدارة صندوق تطوير وإقراض الهيئات المحلية، يقوم المركز الوطني لإدارة مخاطر الكوارث بتنفيذ المشروع المذكور من خلال التعاقد مع فريق استشاري وفني من مركز التخطيط الحضري والتخفيف من مخاطر الكوارث التابع لجامعة النجاح الوطنية، وقد بوشر في تنفيذ المشروع في السابع من شهر كانون أول 2021.

أهداف المشروع

•  اجراء تقييم للأخطار المتعددة وللمخاطر الناتجة عنها ورسم الخرائط
•  تطوير مبادئ توجيهية حول التخطيط للقدرة على الصمود على المستوى المحلي.
•  صياغة خطط القدرة على الصمود للحكومات المحلية (لعينة تجريبية تشمل الضفة الغربية وغزة).
•  صياغة معايير القدرة على الصمود للبنية التحتية الحيوية.
•  بناء قدرات المركز الوطني لإدارة مخاطر الكوارث NDRMC
• وتتضمن مهمة المشروع كذلك:
• تحديد الثغرات والقدرات الموجودة بين المؤسسات الوطنية؛
• - تقديم إرشادات حول كيفية بناء هذه القدرات من خلال تحديد الإجراءات الرئيسية التي يمكن دمجها في الاستراتيجية الوطنية لإدارة مخاطر الكوارث.

الشركاء

• UPDRRC/ ANNU
• Partnership with
• PalDRM

مخرجات المشروع

About

 The Civil Protection Knowledge Network Partnership Platform – Middle East (HEUREKA) will bridge across knowledge holders relevant to disaster management and humanitarian aid actors, to enhance coordination, cooperation, compatibility and complementarity between capacities and will improve the competence of experts; it will be a bridge between the different actors in our field of work at a crucial moment - between the European Union and its Southern Neighborhood, specifically the Middle East, and will also create synergies between humanitarian and civil protection actors. At the same time, the network will support the introduction of an organizational approach in fostering and transferring of knowledge in civil protection, so that organizations and communities can make use of the enhanced knowledge provided

Main Objectives
The Civil Protection (CP) Knowledge Network Partnership Platform – Middle East (HEUREKA) will bridge across knowledge holders relevant to disaster management and humanitarian aid actors to enhance coordination, cooperation, compatibility, and complementarity between capacities and will improve the competence of experts; it will be a bridge between the different actors in the field of CP and DRM at a crucial moment - between the European Union and its Southern Neighborhood, specifically the Middle East. 

Partners

• UPDRRC/ ANNU
• Partnership with
• EU and region Partners

Outcomes

•  A global Civil Protection picture on Middle East developed.
• Overview of the CP situation in the selected countries (Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine,) as a report in English. Specific focus on key topics mentioned above.

About

The work of the Project is split into eight operative tasks, which operate within the framework of a Web-Based Platform (WBP) (task G) for seismic risk mitigation. The WBP integrates a database (DB) to collect vulnerability data on buildings (task B), self-assessment tools to allow practitioners to understand potentially unsafe situations (task F), and how to mitigate the risk related to critical situations (task C). Training played a fundamental role in the project activities, and the target groups are students, practitioners, and stakeholders (task D). for more details and information see the project website 
www.sasparm2.najah.edu
 

Objectivrs

The project goal is to create a web portal where different users (students, citizens, practitioners, GO and NGO stakeholders) will be able to input and manage data on buildings, with increasing levels of detail, and obtain information about the corresponding seismic risk.

The project main targets can be summarized to the following:

• Increase of risk perception by citizens and the development of the citizens’ science
• Capacity building of local practitioners and building contractors
• Engagement of local stakeholders and policy makers leading them to establish
• prevention plans in the development of urban resilience strategies.

Partners

• CENTRO EUROPEO DI FORMAZIONE E RICERCA IN INGEGNERIA
• SISMICA- EUCENTRE/ Italy
• Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia –IUSS/ Italy

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Description

This Project aims to reinforce the cooperation with Europe's neighbors in the context of the European Research Area. The ANNU coordinated the proposal, supported by the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE) and the Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia (IUSS) in Italy. The supporting action of EUCENTRE led ANNU to become a globally competitive and experienced research center in the field of seismic risk mitigation and disaster management. EUCENTRE collaborated with ANNU to devise a research strategy capable of increasing the scope and visibility of ANNU at the national and international levels. The supporting action of IUSS was fundamental for the training activities for students and young researchers. The long experience of IUSS in earthquake engineering and engineering seismology post-graduate courses represented a distinguishing feature of the international vocation of the SASPARM activities.

For more details about the main outcomes of the Project, see the project website:

http://sasparm.najah.edu/

Objectives

This project aims to reinforce the cooperation with Europe’s neighbours in the context of the European Research Area. The An-Najah National University (NNU) in the Palestinian-administered Areas (PS) will coordinate the project, supported by the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE) and the Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia (IUSS) in Italy.

Partners

• CENTRO EUROPEO DI FORMAZIONE E RICERCA IN INGEGNERIA
• SISMICA- EUCENTRE/ Italy
• Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia –IUSS/ Italy

The main outcomes of the Project were:

• Increased awareness of seismic risk by the actors involved in the Project: students, citizens, practitioners, GO and NGO stakeholders;
• A shared database including a large number of vulnerability data;
• A Web-Based Platform that integrates the data above through vulnerability models developed for the Palestinian building typologies and to evaluate seismic risk;
• Guidelines on the implementation of measures to reduce vulnerability and hence mitigate seismic risk; https://sasparm2.najah.edu/

Overall Goal and Objectives

The overall objective of UNDRR and the project initiative: "Making Cities Sustainable and Resilient" was to build more sustainable and resilient cities by strengthening the capacity of essential public, private and civil society stakeholders to assess and address the risk to ensure that public and private investments are risk-informed and that early interventions in crisis-prone cities are linked to longer-term development.

Description

In order to implement the SF several guiding principles were prepared and adopted. Part of them refers to the need for mutual responsibility, engagement,t, and cooperation between all stakeholders.

The implementation of the project "by UPDRRC" was done by following and adopting the above principles, through integrating as many stakeholders as possible. The team of stakeholders included the following:  all concerned departments in  Nablus Municipality,  the public governmental sectors (education, health, transportation, public works and housing, environment, planning, telecommunication, economics, statistics, etc), academia, the private sector community including the insurance, the telecommunication, and electricity,  Community groups including the youth, professional groups like engineer's association, Civil society and non-governmental organizations, as well as international organizations (OCHA). EU and UNDRR.

Partners

• UPDRRC
•  ANNU