Disaster Risk Management in Africa with a focus on averting Conflict over Water Resources.

AfriCan Geopardy

Disaster risk management entails introducing disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk, manage residual risk, and strengthen resilience and reduce disaster losses. With a focus on averting conflict over water resources, we discuss disaster risk management in Africa with Thandie Mwape Villadsen. Thandie is the Humanitarian Diplomacy Coordinator for the Africa Region at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) as Humanitarian Diplomacy Coordinator for Africa. Thandie is a Zambian National, a trained journalist and former UN Diplomat with 20 years of international experience in the United Nations in Africa, Asia, Geneva and New York. In her previous job, Thandie worked as global Policy Advisor at the Netherlands Red Cross society/Partners for Resilience Alliance on Climate Change and Ecosystems and advancing disaster risk reduction and community resilience. In this discussion, Thandie outlines some of the issues relating to disaster risk management on the continent, the work done by IFRC and recommendations on what the continent can do differently.