Mark Pluke, also from the City of Cape Town, too stressed the importance of having signed MoUs with humanitarian agencies. Finally, Mark Harvey stressed the importance of linking together new arrivals to the city, the weather office and the policy makers.

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Amy Davison (Head: Climate Change – Environmental Management Department, Spatial Planning and Environment Directorate ) described the process of drafting a new Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan. The plan she refers to addresses a plethora issues, including weather hazards, cyber attacks, the private sector, power outages, land attacks and finally, the festive season.

Amy Davidson described how the City of Cape Town is drafting a new Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan. Emmanuel Ntale from Uganda Red Cross (URCS) underlined that working in an urban context is often fragmented. URCS aims to engage partnerships through the Urban Working Group, by signed MoUs to deal with the unique challenges with working in the urban context.