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African Regional Implementation Workshop on Hazards and Disasters Dakar, Senegal

African Regional Implementation Workshop on Hazards and Disasters Dakar, Senegal 26-27 September, 2012. Overview of Implementation Activities of ICSU ROA’s Hazards and Disasters Science Plan. By Dr. R.L.K.Glover Programme Specialist: Biological Sciences ICSU ROA. INTRODUCTION (1).

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African Regional Implementation Workshop on Hazards and Disasters Dakar, Senegal

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  1. AfricanRegional Implementation Workshop on Hazards and Disasters • Dakar, Senegal • 26-27 September, 2012

  2. Overview of Implementation Activities of ICSU ROA’s Hazards and Disasters Science Plan By Dr. R.L.K.Glover Programme Specialist: Biological Sciences ICSU ROA

  3. INTRODUCTION (1) • Sub-Saharan Africa prone to many types of natural and human-induced hazards and disasters, most commonly: • Geological • Hydro-meteorological

  4. Earthquake

  5. Volcano

  6. Tsunami

  7. Drought

  8. Drought

  9. Floods in Northern Ghana

  10. Cyclone Bingiza in Madagascar

  11. Huge Wildfire in South Africa

  12. Hailstorm in Klerksdorp, Johannesburg, South Africa

  13. Dust storm often occurs in South Africa

  14. Storm at sea J’burg’sThunder/Lightning Storms famous in SA Summer

  15. Windstorm

  16. A landslide in Kenya

  17. Woman cries for her 4 children lost in landslide, Bududa, Uganda

  18. Landslide in Taiwan

  19. Soil Erosion in Kenya

  20. Coastal Erosion in Gran Canarias Island

  21. Erosion in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  22. INTRODUCTION (2) • These events may occur naturally; but some triggered or exacerbated by human activity

  23. INTRODUCTION (3) • ICSU ROA Science Plan on Hazards and Disasters • prepared and published in September 2007 • to revitalize efforts for addressing impact of these hazards and disasters on African communities • through a framework of research projects for better understanding of the problem • and developing strategies to mitigate them and improve resilience of vulnerable communities

  24. IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES (1) • Task teams of scientists from Africa and African scientists in the diaspora established to develop research projects in the two common hazard and disaster groupings- Geo- and Hydro-meteorological • Project HD01 on Geo-hazards aims at: • assessing and mitigating earthquake hazards, • characterising Africa’s active volcanoes for appropriate hazard monitoring • Project HD02 on Hydro-meteorological hazards and disasters in Africa: vulnerability and resilience is focused on: • research on drought events and floods, and • the resilience of communities to these events

  25. IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES (2) • Proposals sent by ICSU ROA to a number of funders but none received funding • Scoping workshop in March, 2012 • merged and transformed task teams of two groups into a consolidated research consortium to: • integrate research on disaster risk • recast research proposals -- to focus on key challenges in Science Plan, e.g. adequately address vulnerability, resilience, mitigation and disaster management issues

  26. IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES (3) -- achieve multi-/transdisciplinarity by involving social scientists and engineers -- ensure participation by civil society, public sector, national members and scientific unions, municipalities, private sector and NGOs • refine scope, with realistic budgets, depending on funders • identify and submit proposals to potential funders (UNDERWAY???) • Book on Hazards and Disasters in sub-Saharan Africa being developed for publication with sponsorship from the African Institute of South Africa (AISA)

  27. Thank You

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