This programme is financed by the European Union in support of the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States and aims at enabling African countries to operationalize the African Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction and its Plan of Action.

Speakers at the event repeatedly emphasized the importance of resilience in Angola’s development path. The United Nations Resident, Paolo Balladelli, said: “The loss of lives and livelihoods due to natural hazards significantly affects the economic growth of Angola. It is extremely important to boost the resilience of the population, ensuring that disaster risk and climate change impact do not compromise efforts of countries in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Angola.”

During the workshop, UNISDR and CIMA Research Foundation presented a multi-hazard probabilistic risk profile for Angola, with special focus on floods and drought. CIMA representative, Dr. Massabo, presented the country profile of Angola as a comprehensive overview of hazards, risk and the exposure of assets to floods and droughts in Angola, with some consideration on the changing climate trends and the socio-economic context, over the next 50 years.

The risk profile will enable the country to set a plan of action for cost-benefit analysis towards reducing disaster risk and climate change. It reveals an estimate of future economic losses under the current and future climate conditions, in different sectors of the economy.

In his concluding remarks, Mr. Félix, praised the paramount importance of the Sendai Framework for Action 2015-2030.

He stated: “We [are] the first of sixteen countries in the context of the programme. We shall therefore adopt a more interventional and proactive consideration for prevention, mitigation and preparation in the face of natural hazards.

The combination of the country profile with local knowledge will inform effectively the decision-making process in the Provinces”.

Date:

3 Sep 2018

Sources:

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa (UNISDR AF)

Themes:

Capacity Development, Risk Identification & Assessment, Disaster Risk Management

Countries:

Angola