Final Workshop of Urban Community Resilience Assessment (UCRA) in Semarang City

Semarang City has several documents to support the realization of Resilience City. One of these documents is the City Resilience Strategy Document. The contents of the document is the list of initiatives of Semarang City in 6 pillars. 30% of these initiatives have been entered into the RPJMD of Semarang City period 2016-2020.In addition to the City Resilience Strategy Document, Semarang City also calculate the City Resilience Index of Semarang City by the CRO Semarang City team which cooperation with ARUP and Government of Semarang City. In addition to these efforts, Semarang City also needs to make the Urban Community Resilience Assessment (UCREA) in Semarang City. The Initiative for Urban Climate Change and Environment (IUCCE) on cooperation with the World Resource Institute(WRI), the 100RC Semarang team, and the Government of Semarang City together make arrangements for the Urban Community Resilience Assessment (UCRA) in Semarang City, especially for communities located in the Tanjung Mas Village,Kaligawe Village , and Sukorejo Village.

The preparation of Urban Community Resilience Assessment (UCRA) in Semarang City is began from September 2017 -February 2018. The activity is started with kick off meeting, and continued by the Forum Group Discussion and survey to distributing questionnaires to the community with some indicators. The purposed of the final workshop of Urban Community Resilience Assessment (UCRA) in Semarang City is present the result of Urban Community Resilience Assessment ( UCRA ) and  discuss more specific about disaster and housing in Kaligawe Village, Sukorejo Village, and Tanjungmas Village.

Final Workshop of Urban Community Resilience Assessment (UCRA), attended by a few government of Semarang City and the community of Kaligawe Village, Sukorejo Village, and Tanjungmas Village. The event started with the opening by Mr. M Luthfi Eko Nugroho from BAPPEDA of Semarang City, and continued by introduction related to100RC Semarang program by Mr. Purnomo Dwi Sasongko. After the opening, the next event is presentation about Urban Community Resilience Assessment (UCRA) by Ms.Retno Wihanesta from World Resource Institute (WRI) and continued by more specific presentation by Mr. Jawoto Sih Setyono from Department of Urban and Regional Planning UNDIP related to Assessment of Urban Community Resilience in Sukorejo Village, Tanjungmas Village, and Kaligawe Village Semarang City. The purposed of the presentation is inform to the community of Kaligawe Village, Sukorejo Village, Tanjungmas Village, and the government of Semarang City related to the result obtained through a series of Urban Community Resilience Assessment (UCRA) activities in Kota Semarang.

After presentation by all speakers, continued with discussion by workshop participants related to disaster and housing topics. The discussion in this workshop is expected to provide input and solution to the workshop participants as the government and the community related to the problems in Sukorejo, Kaligawe, and Tanjungmas.

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