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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 Photo 1 4.19” x 10.31” Position x: 8.74”, y: .18” 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 Photo 1 4.19” x 10.31” Position x: 8.74”, y: .18” 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) Photo 1 4.19” x 10.31” Position x: 8.74”, y: .18” 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 Photo 1 4.19” x 10.31” Position x: 8.74”, y: .18” 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 continued… • 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