Urban development is deeply concerned with creating not only a livable but also smart, green and sustainable community for its residents and addressing the poor's exposure to vulnerabilities. Makati City has been Metro Manila's financial and central business district (CBD) since the 1970s. Nonetheless, efforts to recognize risks as well as mitigate and prevent natural hazards no longer suffice given that there are more than 7,000 informal settler households in Makati, with Barangay Rizal proving to be the most susceptible to disasters. Makati City's vulnerable informal settlers urgently need urban policymaking and disaster risk reduction strategies to cope with the smart city development scheme. A smart city has been significantly described using the following attributes: (i) the capability to restore degraded environmental quality and to be resilient on improving the quality of life; (ii) the utilization of advanced digitalization technology in information and communication; and (Hi) the promotion and protection of cultural and human capital resource and the awareness, intelligence, well-being, participation, effectiveness and
competitiveness of the city's community. These attributes, when converged with two resilient approaches such as hard and soft infrastructure, would explicitly and implicitly result in benefits for cities pursuing the smart resilient city concept.
The results of the analysis have remarkably shown that there are four thematic areas such as socio-economic, built environment, technology, and institutions that need to be examined before establishing the smart resilient city development scheme. Each thematic area varies with different factors for examining results. The implementing strategies for a smart resilient Makati City follow a 9-step process to effectively mainstream disaster risk reduction and management-climate change adaptation (DRRM-CCA) into all plans, especially for the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) and Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP). The monitoring, evaluating, and assessing framework would follow the four thematic areas, with each theme composed of the Smart Resilient Performing Indicators (SRPI), which are broken down into parameters and variables followed by action plans, agencies and resources. The essential tools for the monitoring and implementation of smart resilient Makati City are the Community Disaster Resilience Index and SRPIs for benchmarking purposes. It is recommended that the smart resilient development scheme be carried out in different dimensions such as prevention, preparedness, response, as well as recovery and
rehabilitation for each thematic area. Further, it needs to be mainstreamed into local plans such as the CDP, CLUP, pre-DRRM plan, DRRM plan; as wel as Crisis Management Framework and Emergency plan of Barangay Rizal.