East African Community
PRESS RELEASE
EAC AT THE 6TH AFRICA REGIONAL PLATFORM AND 5TH HIGH LEVEL MINISTERIAL MEETING ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION IN MAURITIUS
East African Community Headquarters, Arusha, Tanzania, November 28th, 2016:
The 6th
Africa Regional Platform (AfRP) on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
concluded over the weekend in Mauritius. It was organized by the African
Union and United
Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction and
co-hosted by the SADC and the Government of Mauritius. The East African
Community was represented both at the Experts segment and in the High
Level Ministerial Session by Mr. Jean Baptiste Havugimana,
the Director for Productive Sectors.
The
AfRP is a biennial forum that brings together African Member States,
intergovernmental organizations and development partners to review
progress in the implementation
of the continental and global disaster risk reduction frameworks.
The
6th AfRP on DRR is the first continental meeting on DRR organized after
the adoption of the Sendai framework on DRR by UN member states in
Sendai, Japan in
March 2015. The Framework provides a critical strategy for building
resilience and addressing the impact of disasters representing a serious
threat to millions of people in Africa and across the world. The 6th AfRP was a concrete opportunity for
Africa to set up a functional path to alleviate the suffering of the most vulnerable communities in Africa.
The
Platform also enabled delegates sharing of good practices, success
stories and lessons learnt with a view to enhancing coordination,
increasing awareness,
and mobilizing commitments to disaster risk reduction across Africa.
The outcome of the 6th
Africa Platform on DRR is an Africa Statement of DRR, the Mauritius
Declaration on continental commitment and a revised Programme
of Action on DRR for Africa.
During
the Experts segment, Mr. Jean Baptiste Havugimana was a panelist under
the theme: “Risk governance to showcase the status of EAC in
implementing the Sendai
Framework and the role of the DRR Act in achieving priority two of the
Sendai Framework - Enhancing Risk governance”. Mr. Havugimana further
presented during the Ministerial Session the EAC Position Paper and
Commitment in the implementation of the Sendai
Framework. The Statement was a summary of discussions held by all EAC
delegations during their session as a REC.
Attached is the East African Community Statement.
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