Making Cities Resilient: from awareness to implementation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) campaign on Making Cities Resilient. Design/methodology/approach An opinion piece written by the Director a.i. of UNISDR and the Editors of the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment . Findings The campaign will continue and the focus will shift to more implementation support, city‐to‐city learning and cooperation, local action planning and monitoring of progress in cities. Originality/value Continued advocacy will seek to commit more cities and increase the support by national governments to support city resilience and local capacities.