Assessment report on mainstreaming and implementing disaster risk reduction in Togo

Abstract

There is a rise in the number, frequency and seriousness of disasters in Africa. This is reflected in heightened risks of such phenomena as drought and floods. In the coming years, these risks may be exacerbated as a result of climate change and the associated disasters that it brings in its wake. In Togo, the situation is characterized by the major risks of flooding, bush fires, high winds, storms, coastal erosion, epidemics, rock-slides and landslides. Between 2007 and 2011, large-scale repeated flooding, bush fires and violent winds causing damage and destruction were recorded. In view of projections that climate change will have disproportionate repercussions in the country, climate change adaptation should be integrated into risk reduction measures and actions. The present report on mainstreaming and implementing disaster risk reduction in Togo was produced within the framework of the United Nations development account project on strengthening the capacity of African policymakers to mainstream natural disaster risk reduction into national and sub-regional development policies and strategies in Africa.