Consultant-A curriculum for SADC Emergency Response Team

Updated: April 17, 2024 02:19 PM GMT

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC

Maputo

Organizational Context

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) faces recurring challenges from natural and human-induced hazards, with droughts, floods, storms among other disasters claiming lives, as well as, severely impacting lives and livelihoods. The region has experienced unprecedented events, including a historic El Niño-induced drought in 2016 and Tropical Cyclones; Idai and Kenneth in 2019, further exacerbating the situation and causing widespread destruction, impoverishing multiple SADC Member States. More recently, in February and March 2023, Tropical Cyclone Freddy, the third-deadliest tropical cyclone recorded in the Southern Hemisphere following 2019's Cyclone Idai and the 1973 Flores cyclone affected an estimated 2.7 million people, resulting in 876 deaths and displacing 916,000 people. In this regard, the region urgently, needs to build resilience to protect lives and development gains for sustainable development.

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