This conference is to be immediately followed by a workshop, Good Governance - Building Resilient Cities (29-30 June 2007), conducted by ASCI to reinforce lessons learned and to demonstrate, document, and disseminate good urban governance practices. GUGSA project papers will inform and enrich the content of the workshop. The objectives of the workshop are to equip participants with the understanding and appreciation of the need and rationale for planning for resilient cities; to define the components of planning; and to offer tools for prevention and preparedness, capacity building and good governance. This initiative falls within the mandate of ASCI to further the urban reform agenda and to strengthen the capacities of urban local bodies through information exchange and peer-to-peer learning. ASCI intends to establish an Asian Regional Network of Cities as a way to further support urban local bodies.