Maputo Adapting Sanitation Systems to Climate Change
2012/07/11
On the 10 July 2012, Lucinda Fairhurst, Manager: Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction, headed up a team of consultants and researchers to carry out a consultative participatory workshop with key stakeholders representing researchers from climate and disaster risk focus areas at the ‘Universidad Eduardo Mondlane’, Maputo. Municipal decision makers, community based organisations and various ministries in Mozambique were also involved. The workshop’s focus was to take previous participatory engagements within the City of Maputo forward, in efforts to identify and develop locally appropriate adaptation actions and strategies.
The workshop was also used as a platform to further demonstrate the use of the ‘African City Adapt Tool’, which is due to be launched and will go live on the internet early in August 2012.
The workshop was well attended with around 35 high-level influential decision makers who engaged over topics associated with locally projected climate change impacts and local infrastructural sectors that provide much needed basic services; such as water and sanitation to local communities within the jurisdiction of the City of Maputo.
The workshop results and discussions will be used for the finalisation of the ‘Maputo Climate Resilience Handbook’ which shall be made publicly available in August 2012. The handbook, as a deliverable within ICLEI’s 5 City Adaptation Network funded by the IDRC and DFID through the CCAA program, will outline the impacts and risks associated with climate projections developed within a southern African downscaled model and provides and number of locally appropriate adaptation options that have been selected and prioritised by local decision makers.
