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- Summary:
- This document outlines the various components of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation’s (GTZ) Programme for Rural Development in Central Mozambique (PRODER), which integrates disaster risk management (DRM) into the regions development planning. Mozambique is a country plagued by a number of natural hazards, from droughts to tropical storms, staggering poverty, and a history of social strife. After major floods and four cyclones devastated the country in the spring of 2000, killing nearly 800 people and affecting 4.5 million, GTZ became active in helping the country move towards sustainable development by integrating DRM components into its reconstruction programs. GTZ’s PRODER combines bottom-up and top-down approaches to DRM. It sought to engage stakeholders at the community, national, and district levels in implementing DRM initiatives. Communities in areas vulnerable to floods, droughts, and cyclones were introduced to disaster preparedness and prevention measures. GTZ utilized strategies gleaned from successful programs integrating DRM into development planning in Central America to train (workshops, seminars, and work meetings) district members on how to build cyclone resistance housing and implement early warning systems. In addition, GTZ added a new measure to its formula, reducing community exposure to hazards through relocation. Those at the national, district, and community levels were informed that given the region’s susceptibility to heavy rainfall there was need to construct new settlements on higher ground away from Búzi River. The document provides tables and diagrams of the process through which Mozambique improved its implementation of DRR measures, placing the country’s progress in the context of international DRR initiatives, particularly those attached to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). This document continues the discourse acknowledging that poverty reduction, DRM, and sustainable development are interdependent and mutually reinforcing processes. Though its focus is primarily community-based DRM, greater delineation of the role that national and regional governments have in facilitating local DRM would have added depth. To some extent, it seems to isolate local DRM from national DRM initiatives, rather than discussing how one provides context for the success of the other. ( , )
- Subject:
- General Risk Management
- Citation/Reference:
- Ferguson, J. (2005). Mozambique—disaster risk management along the Rio Búzi: case study on the background, concept and implementation of disaster risk management in the context of the GTZ-Programme for Rural Development (PRODER). Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit/German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ).
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- Source Institution:
- Florida International University
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- Refer to main document/publisher for use rights.
- Resource Identifier:
- FI13042644
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