The ICLEI City Resilience Stories Webinar Series presents David Jácome Polit and Piero Pelizzaro, Chief Resilience Officers from Quito (Ecuador) and Milan (Italy) in the webinar “COVID-19: Coping, Learning & Building Urban Resilience”.

From Italy to Ecuador, the city Chief Resilience Officers's will be sharing experiences from their cities in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact and responses to the pandemic differ between prevention and reaction, as well as in terms of city size, institutional capacity, population affected, community engagement, and restrictions to public life.

The webinar will address issues related to disaster response, distribution of aid, vulnerable populations, multi-level governance, and jurisdiction competencies in the context of a sanitary crisis.

Speakers:
David Jácome Polit, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Quito
Piero Pelizzaro, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Milan

Moderators:
Vasileios Latinos, Officer, Sustainable Resources, Climate and Resilience, European Secretariat, ICLEI Europe
Victoria Vital Estrada, Officer, Resilient Development Programme, ICLEI 
Zoe Durruty, Assistant, Resilient Development Programme, ICLEI 

For more information and to register, click here.