4. Governance and cross-sector leadership. Establish mutual aid agreements, streamline interagency coordination and align resilience strategies with local priorities to improve operational efficiency and ensure cohesive disaster response and recovery. 5. Civic engagement. Launch public awareness campaigns, engage community-based organizations and promote household-level preparedness to build trust, strengthen social cohesion and empower communities to act. Performance measurement and accountability. Implement resilience scorecards, conduct risk modeling and integrate performance metrics into planning and budgeting to support evidencebased decision-making and demonstrate return on investment. 1. Risk-informed design. Adopt and enforce hazardresistant building codes, improve access to risk data and incentivize compliance to reduce structural vulnerability and long-term recovery costs. 2. Infrastructure and pre-disaster mitigation. Modernize infrastructure using resilient design principles and nature-based solutions and integrate resilience into capital improvement planning to minimize service disruptions and reduce response costs. Every dollar invested in mitigation can save an average of $6 in future disaster costs, according to the report. 3. Economic continuity and diversification. Support small business resilience and contingency planning, expand insurance coverage, invest in workforce development and strengthen supply chains to enhance economic stability and accelerate recovery. 14 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 13, ISSUE 02
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