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Building disaster resilience to natural hazards in Sub-Saharan Africa 2018 annual report

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African Development Bank
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the
African Union Commission
Publication Year
2019
Number of pages
66 p.

This is the second report for the Programme ‘Building Disaster Resilience to Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities’ (referred to throughout this report as “the Programme”). In 2018, the Programme continued the activities under the following Result Areas:

  • Result Area 1: Extended Programme of Action for the Implementation of the Africa Regional Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (PoA 2006-2015) operational, through the improved AUC's coordination and monitoring capacity
  • Result Area 2: African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have DRR coordination, planning and policy advisory capacities operational to support their respective member states and regional and sub-regional programmes
  • Result Area 3: Core capacities of the specialised national and Regional Climate Centres (RCCs) are improved, to meet the needs of DRM agencies Result 3 and socio-economic sectors for effective use of weather and climate services and community-focused and real-time early warning systems (EWS).
  • Result Area 4: Sub-Saharan African countries have improved knowledge of risks through, the compilation of historical disaster related data to inform the assessment and modelling of future risks.
  • Result Area 5: Multi-risk financing strategies are developed at regional, national and local levels to help African countries make informed decisions, to improve their financial response capacity post disaster and to mitigate the socio-economic, fiscal and financial impacts of disasters of African countries
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Result area 2 activity report 2016-2017 of the Building Disaster Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa Program
Building disaster resilience to natural hazards in Sub-Saharan African countries and communities 2014-2017 report
Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities programme brochure
Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities programme - Update 1
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Early Warning
Information Management
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