Transcript Amanda Bourne_VA Overview Part 2

Vulnerability
Assessment
• Aim: use available research and
resources to produce a useful
summary document and set of
communications materials that we and
our partners can use as a planning tool
• Determine level of threat and prioritise
sites and actions for most effective
response
• Look at:
- EXPOSURE
- SENSITIVITY
- ADAPTIVE CAPACITY
Vulnerability = E + S - AC
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VA Approach
• Make use of existing information
• Scientifically sound assessment of
climate change impacts as context
• Vulnerability as a starting point
• Vulnerability already exists and will
be exacerbated by climate change
• Focus on known current socioeconomic and ecosystem
vulnerability
• Integrate these with climate
vulnerability so that the climate
science is useful for policy makers
• Recommendations will focus on
increasing systemic resilience
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Key Sources
• Anton Du Plessis (Watees) Disaster Risk
Reduction and Hazard Mapping for the
Namakwa District Municipality
• Namakwa District Biodiversity Sector
Plan; Namakwa Bioregional Plan
• Critical Biodiversity Areas maps
• One World Sustainability Investments
Risk and Vulnerability Mapping for
Southern Africa
• SKEP technical reports
• Local, provincial, and national
government policy documents and
studies (e.g. IDPs, NPAES, NCCRS,
DSD report, EMF)
• SARVA and Stats SA
• Original research by CI, CSA and
Partners (e.g. climate science, climate
policy, rangeland management)
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Key Outcomes
- Data collected on current state
- Contextualise with climate data
- Rank key indicators according to
exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity
- Identify sites and activities for effective
EbA
- Only preliminary findings now (profiles)
• INSTITUTIONAL VULNERABILITY
• SOCIO-ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY
• ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY
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Institutional Profile
• SA = world leader in environmental policy
• Environmental management frameworks, plans, and
legislation is strong at all levels
• Namakwa District Municipality is particularly strong on
this:
- Only District with a Biodiversity Sector Plan and
Bioregional plan defining CBAs
(not yet gazetted – implications?)
- Recently launched EMF and SEMP
- Well researched, scientifically sound, quality documents
with a balance between conservation and livelihoods
targets
- SANParks has 4 large reserves, 1 focused particularly on
a CC corridor; several DENC reserves; focus area for
NPAES.
- Active WfW and AIS
Institutional Profile
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• Are challenges
- Designation of political boundaries in SA
- Budget allocations
- High costs of service delivery due to size and low PD
- Focus on traditional service delivery
- Competing development priorities
- Capacity and human resources limitations
• And opportunities
- experience responding to weather related extreme events
such as droughts and floods
- working towards a comprehensive DRR plan
- Land management and governance
- encouraging enabling environment