Risk-Informed Policy Making for Sustainable Development, Climate Change Adaptation and the Environment

With climate change intensifying the magnitude, frequency, duration, and severity of climate-related hazards across the African continent it remains necessary to create sustainable solutions that will address these disaster losses, and the setbacks in development that they in turn create. The fragmented approach of many African governmental bodies often results in duplicated efforts, inconsistent and poorly informed policymaking, and inefficient use of limited resources. Through this thematic session, participants will foster a common understanding and benefit of comprehensive and harmonized systemic risk assessment, policy coherence. Effective risk assessment and management, particularly in the context of climate change, requires a comprehensive, harmonized, and systemic approach, and this session aims to promote the creation and implementation of such comprehensive and harmonized approaches.

Stakeholders will exchange their different views and experiences with cross-sectoral policy making and engage in dialogues that promote cross-ministerial collaboration. These discussions will help to safeguard development gains, reduce risks from and to development initiatives as well as to avoid maladaptation through the creation and implementation of coherent policy development.