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  • Leading Organization:
    GIZ
    Implementing Agency:
    GTZ
    Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    Sofala province government, the committee for the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) and the National Disaster Management Institute (INGC)
    Summary:

    Integrating adaptation to climate change within disaster risk management systems in the Búzi river catchment area and other regions of Southern Africa In 2001 the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH started a programme of reconstruction, which now forms part of the broader Programme for Rural Development of Mozambique - (PRODER).

    Within this framework, the People- oriented inter-district early warning system for the catchment area of the Rio Búzi (SIDPABB) was developed as a pilot project.

    The system was based upon a thorough participatory risk analysis. It identified a third of the district’s population, living in nine communities plus the capital Búzi, as being especially disaster-prone. Detailed maps now depict highrisk areas as well as elevated ground for emergency evacuation. Complemented by simple but effective regulations for cyclone-proof building, they also form the basis for the construction of new settlements for some of the families worst affected by the flood.

    Families may continue to farm the fertile grounds along the riverside, but crucially their family and property are safe. A series of field workshops and community meetings were then conducted, many of them by local experts from Costa Rica and Honduras who had developed disaster risk management programmes in their own communities.

    Project Components:

    Seven monitoring stations on the upper course of the Búzi and its affluents have been set up. Rainfall and the river level are measured daily using simple and robust equipment. These data are directly transmitted via a direct radio frequency to Búzi, where they are analysed. The District Administrator has ultimate authority to instruct the GRCs via radio about the necessary steps to be taken. He has since become an expert on the issue, and has taken the lead with regard to the integration of disaster management in the development plan of his district.

    Contacts:

    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

    GmbH Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5 65760, Eschborn, Germany

    T: +49 6196 79-0

    F: +49 6196 79-11 15

    Email: GIZ - Contact

    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    GIZ
    Cofinancing Total:
    n/a
    Resources:
    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit Website
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    File(s):
    GIZ Factsheet • Adaptation to Climate Change in Mozambique: Early Warning and Education
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