An €80 million package of funds from the European Union to support disaster risk management across Sub-saharan Africa has been unveiled, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has said. “This is a really excellent initiative. It’s quite unique, and I really hope that we will see many more like it,” said Margareta Wahlstràm, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction.
This is a strategic longterm investment in building resilience in Africa. It will help to reduce mortality and economic losses by improving preparedness, early warning systems and putting in place systems for understanding how disaster losses are generated in order to avoid them in the future, Wahlstràm added.
The five-year Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities programme will be financed as part of the European Union’s cooperation with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries. The programme’s five areas include enhanced regional coordination and disaster risk reduction monitoring as well as enhanced capacity of regional economic communities for coordination and planning.
The remaining three are: improved capacity of regional climate centres for weather and climate services and real-time early warning systems, improved risk knowledge for future risk modeling and enhanced financial strategies for informed decision-making.
No comments:
Post a Comment