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Advocates

  Javier E. González Müller
Uruguay
Advocate of the Making Cities Resilient campaign.
 
 

Professional Profile

Javier is an Economist, graduated from the University of the Republic (UdelaR - Montevideo - Uruguay), Specialist in Risk Reduction and Sustainable Local Development of the DELNET Program of the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization - ILO / UN

He is a consultant to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for the technical strengthening of the National Emergency System (SI.NA.E.) in Uruguay, working specifically on the Economic Dimensioning of the Impact of Damage and Loss due to adverse events.

He has developed his activity as an independent management advisor through consulting, technical assistance, research and training, focused on local development within the country, with an emphasis on Micro, Small and Medium-sized businesses. He is Director and teacher of Non-Formal Education at the Institute of Management, Development and Clean and Sustainable Businesses, providing training and developing business plans for companies nationwide specifically focused on new projects that prioritize the reduction of environmental impacts.

In regards to Formal Education, he is currently teaching Economics and has taught classes in Economic and Social Studies in Secondary Education, and has also trained teachers of Economics at the national level for the National Administration of Public Education.
    
 
 

Knowledge of the territorial reality inside my country, in particular the reality of micro and small entrepreneurs in developing their businesses as sustainable and environmentally friendly, as well as the knowledge gained from formal teaching and non-formal training, has inspired the need to work in risk management, which I consider a powerful tool for understanding, inter alia, the impacts of climate change on economic activity and, therefore, social reality. The need to benefit society in the development of clean and sustainable ventures, the creation of green jobs, as well as the promotion of sustainable local development makes this activity, in my opinion, of paramount importance. 

Integrated Risk Management as a process with a Local Development perspective must be incorporated in the public and private agenda for society as a whole to benefit from its holistic approach, which emphasizes strategic planning in the environment that we share as a society, whether at the urban or rural level. 
The activity as Advocate of the Global Campaign “Making Resilient Cities: My City is Getting Ready” will not only contribute to but enhance and deepen the vision of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to succeed in establishing in the territories at various scales in the planet, to start to address and discuss local and national issues with a Risk Management perspective at  different levels of government, regardless of the approach taken to address them (corrective, reactive, prospective or a combination).

Succeeding in naturally addressing the theme, as an unavoidable chapter, when discussing issues such as land use planning, strategic plans of local boards, councils, municipalities, departments, provinces, among others, as well as at a curricular level in education starting with primary education, in addition to inclusion in the business plans of the companies, is a specific purpose of this promotional activity, and this is what it would mean to succeed in this venture that we have initiated in Uruguay.