MCR2030 CityScorecard - UNDRR PDF

Making Cities Resilient 2030 and Disaster Resilience
Scorecard for Cities

Online Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction, Risk-informed Governance,
Finance Mechanisms and Innovative Solutions for Local Resilience | Session 1
– Understanding disaster risk and planning for resilience at global,
national and local levels
11 April 2023
© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

With the support of
Key focus
• Making Cities Resilience 2030 (MCR2030)

• Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities
• Exercise
• Case examples from other cities
• Quiz
Making Cities Resilient 2030
• 10-year global partnership from January 2021 to
December 2030 to accelerate local resilience
• Provides a clear 3-stage Resilience Roadmap guiding

cities and municipalities towards taking a long-term and
continuous approach to resilience investments, from
awareness raising to enhanced strategic planning and
taking a whole-of-society approach to implementation
• Connects cities with expert organizations, pool of

resource and knowledge through online dashboard
• Platform to support national urban resilience programme

MCR2030 Strategic Objectives
Strategic objectives:
1. Improve cities’ understanding of risk and secure their commitment to local disaster risk
reduction & resilience [Know Better]
2. Strengthen cities’ capacity to develop local strategies/plans to enhance resilience [Plan better]
3. Support cities to implement local strategies/plans to enhance resilience [Implement better]
Cross cutting objectives include:

▪ strengthening vertical links between local government with the national governments and
national associations of local governments
▪ strengthening horizontal links amongst local partners to ensure sustainability
▪ connecting cities with cities, to learn and share

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Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)
IMPACT:
cities improve
Resilience
Roadmap
(MCR2030
Pathway) resilience and are
cities KNOW better cities PLAN better cities IMPLEMENT better on sustainability
pathways to
deliver SDG 11
City assessments and self-identification of entry points
Entry
City’s engagement
Stage A cities Stage B cities Stage C cities DRR/

Resilience
Mainstreaming:
Commitment
Commitment to move towards

Commitment to move along a Commitment to implement and mainstream Horizontal and vertical
development of a DRR and resilience
pathway to develop and implement DRR and resilience across all sectors and integration of resilience
strategy and ensure development
a DRR and resilience strategy to share experiences and sustainability in urban
plans are risk-informed development, across
municipal agencies/
departments and within
membership)
(Benefits of
Outcome
Awareness & Advocacy Diagnostic & Planning Support city functions

MCR2030
Implementation Support
Activities along a continuum Activities along a continuum

Integration across activities to ensure coordination/comprehensive and systematic responses, strategies and action: A multi-sectoral approach with multiple partnerships
Improving 1. Cities and their

(Thematic areas of MCR2030 offer)
Improving Increasing Ensuring Adopting

Awareness raising on risk
diagnostic access to resilient nature- commitments
skills for finance based
DRR and resilience analysis infrastructure
planning solutions 2. Partners and their
Activity Areas
Improving strategies Integrating climate risks Ensuring service provision

and plans into strategies and plans Inclusion
3. Collaborate and
Enabling national-local linkages take actions
Strengthening partnerships within the city
Promoting city-to-city learning
Moving along the Resilience Journey
▪ MCR2030 allows cities to demonstrate progress

▪ Self-service through sharing insights on the MCR2030 dashboard
▪ Easy for cities to decide where they start, and how they proceed
Stage A: Know better Stage B: Plan better Stage C: Implement better
• Mainstream and institutionalize DRR

• Conduct an awareness • Complete a disaster
Critical milestones (required steps)
and resilience strategies and activities

event or publicity risk reduction and
across all sectors of the city
outside the government resilience strategy
and development • Implement, deliver, and sustain longer
plan term and specific actions on DRR and
• Conduct an orientation
workshop with staff resilience across city departments
and city council • Get government
endorsement of the • Develop a pipeline of bankable projects
strategy by a to ensure sustained disaster resilience
• Establish a multi-
sectoral committee on governing body ready
• Act as a mentor and sharing
resilience-building for implementation
experiences with Stage A and B cities

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Partners
▪ MCR2030 is an initiative co-owned and co-delivered by Core Partners
▪ Development agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs)/civil society
organizations (CSOs), academia and research institutions, media, and others, are
encouraged to join
▪ Service providers can offer fee based technical support and advice to cities
▪ Includes - services to cities including risk assessments, capacity to update building
codes and land use plans, climate change scenarios for the city, bond rating (and
issuance) service for municipal finance, city ranking indices, research and others.
▪ Decentralized functions in five regions - Dashboard

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National Governments and Associations of Municipalities
▪ National governments need to guide and support development of DRR and resilience
strategies at the local government, by providing guidance and tools, expertise, capacity
development, and resources. This may be in the form of a national level program for
promoting DRR and resilience at the local level, embedded in the urban development related
ministries (e.g., those in charge of DRR, climate agenda, local government and
decentralization). National governments should also play an active role in creating a network
of MCR2030 cities within a country to foster city-to-city exchanges and learning.
▪ The national associations of municipalities and other networks/coalitions at the national

and regional levels will play a key role in supporting local governments and scaling up
impact of MCR2030

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MCR2030 snapshot (31 March 2023)
1,520
474,087,449
675
358
487
305
28
National Government Agencies
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Source: MCR2030 Dashboard, March 2023
MCR2030 Resilience Hubs
As of March 2023

MCR2030 in action
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Amazonian municipalities, Brazil

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Santo André, Brazil
WUF11, Katowice, Poland

International Disaster Resilience Local Leaders Forum, Incheon Global Platform for DRR, Bali, Indonesia
Learning and exchange

MCR2030 dashboard
• A closed online platform allowing cities to record and monitor progress along the resilience
roadmap and share insights and lessons learned with others regionally and globally
• A marketplace/registry for cities to

find potential service providers who
can support implementation of
actions; and for partners to list their
services and get connected with cities
• Joining MCR2030 = access to the

dashboard
https://mcr2030dashboard.undrr.org
Who can join MCR2030 and access the dashboard?
▪ City or local government: Administrative unit which
are sub national, such as, but not limited to, cities,
municipalities, towns, villages, districts, provinces,
states, etc.
▪ Participating entity: Another name for partner, any

entity with specific knowledge and expertise that
can support cities to progress along the resilience
roadmap e.g., national government, national
association of municipality, development agency,
non-governmental organizations (NGO)/civil
society organizations (CSO), academia and
research institution, private sector organization, 14
UN entity or organization, networks, etc.
Sample services available for MCR2030 cities
City Stage A: Awareness Raising on disaster risk reduction and resilience

Agency name Service name Type of Agency
Greater Manchester The IGNITION Project: research and tools for nature-based Resilient Hub
solutions to climate change
The Australian National University research, training and technical assistance on Disaster, Special Service
University Risk Reduction and Disaster Solutions Provider
Impact Initiatives Area-based risk assessment (ABRA) Supporting entity
International Federation Road Map to Community Resilience through the Enhanced Core partner
of Red Cross and Red Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment
Crescent Societies
United Cities and Local Online course: "Fundamentals of Resilient Governance" Supporting entity
Governments
Global Covenant of Cities Race to Resilience Supporting entity
Mayors for Climate and
Energy

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City Stage B: Improve Risk Analysis

Exclusive workshop on improving risk analysis and better
Special Service
DHI planning for disaster risk reduction and climate change
Provider
adaptation
Impact Initiatives Area-based risk assessment (ABRA) Supporting entity
Milan Introduction to the Preliminary Resilience Assessment Resilient Hub
United Cities and Local
Online course: "Fundamentals of Resilient Governance" Core partner
Governments
Disaster and Emergency
Local DRR Planning National Government
Management Presidency of Turkey
ICLEI ICLEI Urban Resilience Planning Cycle Core partner
NCSR Demokritos Climate Resilience Infrastructures Supporting entity
JICA Technical Cooperation Core partner
• Training on Making cities resilient: Developing local
UNDRR GETI disaster risk reduction and resilience strategies
Core partner
• Quick Risk Estimation tool and training 16
City Stage C: Increasing Access to Finance

The IGNITION Project: research and tools for nature-based
Greater Manchester Resilient Hub
solutions to climate change
Global Covenant of
Mayors for Climate and The City Climate Finance Gap Fund Supporting entity
Energy
ICLEI - Local Government
Transformative Actions Program (TAP) Core partner
for Sustainability
City Resilience Program Private Capital Mobilization Advisory Core partner
and many more……..

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How to join MCR2030
MCR2030 sign-up steps:
Take the stage

Create a Create an MCR2030
assessment & Complete your city
PreventionWeb dashboard account
prepare a letter of detailed profile
account for your city
commitment
Tips:
Visit the MCR2030 dashboard and guides ➢ Complete all steps! Cities are encouraged to
at: https://mcr2030dashboard.undrr.org/ complete both the city profile basics and details to
https://mcr2030.undrr.org/dashboard-guide maximize the benefits from the dashboard access.
This will allow you to discover participating entities
and services matching to your city’s needs.

Disaster Resilience
Scorecard for Cities
Overall approach
Concept Tools Analysis Strategy/Plan Implementation
Understand
the 10 Understand
Essentials risks & use
for Making the Scorecard Identify gaps
Cities (Indicators) that need to Implement
Resilient to assess the Develop
be addressed the plan &
progress and the DRR
& prioritize reduce
status of Strategy &
actions to disaster
resilience Action Plan
increase risks
building resilience
Paving ways towards disaster risk reduction and disaster resilience building at the local level
– supporting MCR2030 Resilience Roadmap

The Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient
– the Guiding Principles
Learn more about the 10 Essentials at:

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction https://mcr2030.undrr.org/ten-essentials-making-cities-resilient
The Disaster Resilient Scorecard for Cities (Scorecard)
A tool to support disaster risk reduction and resilience planning - to

understand the cities’ status on resilience building (baseline snapshot), to
identify priority areas and actions for DRR and to create dialogue and help to
engage multi-stakeholders in the process
https://mcr2030.undrr.org/disaster-resilience-scorecard-cities
❖ A set of assessments that allow cities to assess their disaster resilience, structured around the 10
Essentials for Making Cities Resilient
❖ Developed by IBM, AECOM, and UNDRR with the support from the European Commission and USAID, and
launched in May 2017 at the Global Platform for DRR in Cancun.
❖ Local government authorities should take the lead in the assessments. A multi-stakeholder dialogue and
approach between key city stakeholders will be necessary to complete the Scorecard and is essential in
pushing the cities towards higher resilience.

PDF Version Excel Tool
Printable with detailed explanation and references. Interactive showing analysis results

Online Version
- Facilitates live collaboration between all members

of the Scorecard assessment team
- Interactive, showing live results
- Printable report and visualization for decision

making
- Cities can publish the assessment for public

viewing
For actual assessment

→ https://scorecard.undrr.org/
For training/practice
→ https://scorecard-training.undrr.org/
*Launched at GPDRR2022 in Bali in May 2022 FAQ about the Online Scorecard
→ https://mcr2030.undrr.org/online-disaster-
resilience-scorecard-cities
Reset all data
Start – go to Go to Result Page Go to About page

information page
Go to Essential 1
Excel Tool
Sample Indicator and Scoring
Essential 1. Plan making
Does the city master plan (or relevant strategy/plan) include and implement disaster risk reduction
approaches in line with Sendai Framework?
3 - Fully integrated DRR plan, full Sendai Framework compliance and coverage across all the Ten
Essentials.
2 - Stand-alone DRR plan complying with Sendai Framework and addressing all of the Ten Essentials.
1 - Plans offering partial compliance with Sendai Framework and covering some of the Ten Essentials.
0 - No plans.

Using the Scorecard Excel Tool
1
2
3 4 5
Scorecard is designed to be used flexibly in the way best suits the need of the city. Cities can
decide on their own ‘evidence’ to support the assessment. Document them in the ‘Provide
means of verification (explanation and evidence).
Analyzing Results – Overall Score
Go to
‘Results’ Tab
Maximum possible score

(reflected in the grey area* in the web diagram)
*Each essentials has different numbers of indicators, therefore the maximum possible scores for each
essential will be different. For example, Essential 1 has 3 indicators. The maximum score for each
indicator is 3. So, the maximum possible score for Essential 1 is 9. Similarly, as Essential 10 has 2
indicators, the maximum possible score for Essential 10 is 6.

Analyzing Results – Overall Score
Grey – Maximum possible score

Blue – Actual score
How is this city doing?

Analyzing Results – by essentials

Reports

Example: Template for DRR Action Plan
Action Plan for Calendar Year ________ – ________
City/Local Government Name

Country
Name:
Focal Point Details
Contact Info:
Title of existing local disaster risk reduction strategy
Timeframe of existing strategy or plan
Strategic Area/Goal 1: e.g. Strengthen disaster risk governance

INDICATORS RESPONSIBILITY
TIMEFRAME
# OBJECTIVES PLANNED ACTION(s) (Specific, measurable, (+Support) AGENCIES Budget
(Timebound)
attainable, realistic) (Assignable)

Application process…
Set up the working group
1. Determine
objectives
2. Identify Add awareness raising /

stakeholders orientation workshop
3. Carry out
initial
Think of the end results research
– how do you want to
use the scorecard 4. Set up Endorsement by
workshop
results? Will the Municipality council, etc.
scorecard results be
5. Carry out
informing any workshop
plan/policy of the city?
Should the process be 6. Sign-off on
aligned with the city outcomes
development/DRR
7. Start
planning process?
resilience
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Benefits
The benefits of completing the scorecard extend far beyond reporting Fostering growth
– the conversations the process can generate may even be more mind-set!
important than the score.
If completed in a collaborative way, cities can:

• Establish a baseline measurement of their current level of disaster resilience
• Increase awareness and understanding of resilience challenges
• Enable dialogue between key city stakeholders who may otherwise not collaborate regularly
• Enable discussion of priorities for investment and action, based on a shared understanding
of the current situation
• Enable the development of a city resilience strategy / action plan
• Ultimately lead to actions and implementable projects that will deliver increased resilience
for the city over time.

Ideas for application
▪ Running preliminary assessment to create entry points

▪ Running detailed assessment to deep dive into any topic of interests
▪ Using specific essentials to engage with specific sector
▪ Using the Scorecard addendum to engage cities with specific interests
▪ Etc.

Tools for Urban Resilience: Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities
Preliminary Assessment Detailed Assessment
Launched 2017 2017

# of indicators
47 117
(criteria)
Scoring 0-3 0-5
Methodology Use in a 1 or 2 day city multi- Multi-stakeholder exercise which
stakeholder workshop could take 1-4 months.
Use case Initial assessment helping to open up Create an in-depth review, forming a
multi-stakeholder dialogue on basis for a detailed city resilience
disaster resilience (recommend for all action plan (possible to opt out some
questions to be scored) non-relevant criteria)

Tools for Urban Resilience: Thematic Scorecard Addenda
Public Health System Resilience Food System Resilience Annex for Inclusion of Persons with
Cultural Heritage Addendum
Addendum Addendum Disability
Launched 2018 2022 2022 2022
# of indicators
23 29 44 19
(criteria)
Scoring 0-5 0-5 0-3 0-3
Methodology Use in a 1 day city multi- Use in a 1 day city multi- Use simultaneously with Use in a half day city multi-
stakeholder workshop stakeholder workshop Scorecard stakeholder workshop
Use case Help to amplify Essential 8 on Structured in sections around Supports the development of Includes specific criteria on
hospitals and food the Ten Essentials and the culture-based and people- inclusion of persons with
distribution parts, aiming to issues that affect resilience in centered disaster risk disabilities for each of the Ten
enhance integration of public the “system-of-systems”, reduction and resilience Essentials and supports the
health issues in disaster risk including food production, strategies integrated with formulation of more inclusive
reduction. supplies, transport and cultural heritage and local strategies and plans
services. development policies promoting meaningful
participation and accessibility
https://mcr2030.undrr.org/public-health- https://mcr2030.undrr.org/food-system- https://mcr2030.undrr.org/cultural-heritage- https://mcr2030.undrr.org/disability-inclusion-

Link
system-resilience-scorecard resilience-scorecard scorecard scorecard
Exercise
Join at slido.com
#17403286
ⓘ Start presenting to display the joining instructions on this slide.

Which country are you from?
ⓘ Start
© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Riskpresenting
Reduction to display the poll results on this slide.
Which city are you from?
ⓘ Start
1.2 Organization, coordination and participation - Is there a multi-
agency/sectoral mechanism with appropriate authority and
resources to address disaster risk reduction?
ⓘ Start
2.4 Cascading impacts - Is there a collective understanding of
potentially cascading failures between different city and
infrastructure systems, under different scenarios?
ⓘ Start
3.1 The city / lead agencies understand all sources of funding and
the “resilience dividends”, are well connected, understand all
available routes to attract external funding and are actively
pursuing funds for major resilience investments.
ⓘ Start
4.4 Application of zoning, building codes and standards - Are
zoning rules, building codes and standards widely applied, properly
enforced and verified?
ⓘ Start
5.3 Is the city aware of ecosystem services being provided to the
city from natural capital beyond its administrative borders? Are
agreements in place with neighbouring administrations to support
the protection and management of these assets?
ⓘ Start
6.4 Training delivery - Are there training courses covering risk and
resilience issues offered to all sectors of the city including
government, business, NGOs and community?
ⓘ Start
7.4 Citizen engagement techniques - How effective is the city at
citizen engagement and communications in relation to DRR?
ⓘ Start
8.7 Health care - Would there be sufficient acute healthcare
capabilities to deal with expected major injuries in worst case
scenario?
ⓘ Start
9.1 Early warning - Does the city have a plan or standard operating
procedure to act on early warnings and forecasts? What proportion
of the population is reachable by early warning system?
ⓘ Start presenting to display the poll results on this slide.

10.2 Lessons learnt / learning loops - Do post-event assessment
processes incorporate failure analyses and the ability to capture
lessons learned that then feed into design and delivery of rebuilding
projects?
ⓘ Start presenting to display the poll results on this slide.

Application process…
Set up the working group
1. Determine
objectives
2. Identify Add awareness raising /

stakeholders orientation workshop
3. Carry out
initial
Think of the end results research
– how do you want to
use the scorecard 4. Set up Endorsement by
workshop
results? Will the Municipality council, etc.
scorecard results be
5. Carry out
informing any workshop
plan/policy of the city?
Should the process be 6. Sign-off on
aligned with the city outcomes
development/DRR
7. Start
planning process?
resilience
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Lessons learned
▪ The Scorecard ...

▪ is user-friendly, flexible and adaptable.
▪ is a good entry point to start engaging with cities and various stakeholders on DRR.
▪ has a strong convening power can help to engage non-traditional DRR actors.
▪ provides immediate results to understand the baselines which allowed identification
of actions and coordination of DRR efforts among stakeholders to be simplified.
▪ The workshop approach ...

▪ increases participants, awareness and shared understanding of disaster resilience to
agree to multi-sector actions for mainstreaming into city budgets and plans.
▪ allows for multi stakeholders’ discussion around DRR and resilience. https://www.unisdr.org/campaign/resili
entcities/toolkit/article/lessons-learned-
▪ ... but limits discussions to the experience and resources in the room from-the-disaster-resilience-
scorecard-assessment-and-disaster-
risk-reduction-drr-action-planning
More reflections from cities: https://www.unisdr.org/campaign/resilientcities/home/article/reflections-and-experience-sharing-from-cities

Key Resources
▪ Disaster Risk Reduction Terminology: http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/terminology/
▪ Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, UN: http://www.preventionweb.net/drr-framework/sendai-framework
▪ Making Cities Resilient 2030 Website: https://mcr2030.undrr.org
▪ A Handbook For Local Government Leaders [2017 Edition]: https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/how-make-cities-more-

resilient-handbook-local-government-leaders-0
▪ 10 Essentials for Making Cities Resilient: https://mcr2030.undrr.org/ten-essentials-making-cities-resilient
▪ Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Framework, WHO :

https://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/preparedness/health-emergency-and-disaster-risk-management-framework-
eng.pdf?ua=1
▪ Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities:

https://mcr2030.undrr.org/disaster-resilience-scorecard-cities
▪ Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities - Public Health System Resilience Addendum:
https://mcr2030.undrr.org/public-health-system-resilience-scorecard
▪ Reflections and experience sharing from cities on the use of Scorecard:

https://www.unisdr.org/campaign/resilientcities/home/article/reflections-and-experience-sharing-from-cities
Thank You
UNDRR
Global Education and Training Institute (GETI)
4F Songdo G-Tower,
175 Art Center-daero,
Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Republic of Korea
undrr-incheon@un.org

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Making Cities Resilient 2030 and Disaster Resilience

Scorecard for Cities

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

• Making Cities Resilience 2030 (MCR2030)

• Provides a clear 3-stage Resilience Roadmap guiding

• Connects cities with expert organizations, pool of

• Platform to support national urban resilience programme

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Cross cutting objectives include:

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Stage A cities Stage B cities Stage C cities DRR/

Commitment to move towards

Awareness & Advocacy Diagnostic & Planning Support city functions

Activities along a continuum Activities along a continuum

Improving 1. Cities and their

Improving Increasing Ensuring Adopting

Improving strategies Integrating climate risks Ensuring service provision

▪ MCR2030 allows cities to demonstrate progress

Stage A: Know better Stage B: Plan better Stage C: Implement better

• Mainstream and institutionalize DRR

and resilience strategies and activities

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

▪ The national associations of municipalities and other networks/coalitions at the national

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Amazonian municipalities, Brazil

WUF11, Katowice, Poland

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

• A marketplace/registry for cities to

• Joining MCR2030 = access to the

▪ Participating entity: Another name for partner, any

City Stage A: Awareness Raising on disaster risk reduction and resilience

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

City Stage B: Improve Risk Analysis

City Stage C: Increasing Access to Finance

and many more……..

MCR2030 sign-up steps:

Take the stage

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Concept Tools Analysis Strategy/Plan Implementation

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Learn more about the 10 Essentials at:

A tool to support disaster risk reduction and resilience planning - to

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

© UNDRR – United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

- Facilitates live collaboration between all members

- Interactive, showing live results

- Printable report and visualization for decision

- Cities can publish the assessment for public

For actual assessment

Start – go to Go to Result Page Go to About page

Essential 1. Plan making

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Maximum possible score

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Grey – Maximum possible score

How is this city doing?

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Action Plan for Calendar Year ________ – ________

City/Local Government Name

Action Plan for Calendar Year –