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Mar 10, 2014 News
In Guyana, the concept of integrated coastal management and risk reduction is a national effort that has seen the European Union (EU) playing a major role.
In fact, the EU has been Guyana’s partner in sea defence and climate change adaptation even before the word became popular dating back to the end of 1990.
This assertion was made by Benedikt Madl, Head of Bilateral Section at the Ministry of Agriculture’s workshop/ presentation of the “Managing Flood Risk in Guyana” report on Friday at Regency Suites, Hadfield Street.
The EU in its 2014 to 2020 strategy will be complementing their work on sea defences, conservancies and the risk of flooding in the hinterland, he said. The challenge will be coordination within Government since the Ministry of Public Works is responsible for sea defences and the Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for conservancies.
Madl stated that Boxing Day 2004 tsunami was probably a big wakeup call at the time for the international community. This event led to the international framework on disaster prevention: the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 to 2015.
He said it in this bigger framework that the EU is working in and the ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Programme is also a child of this initiative.
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