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Lesotho
Strengthening Africans' ability to adapt to climate change: seven projects receive Canadian funding
25 Nov 2011, CNW
Canada's Environment Minister, the Honourable Peter Kent, and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) today announced seven winning projects from across Africa that will support important and innovative initiatives to better equip the African continent to deal with the effects of climate change...
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Disaster Management Authority (DMA) - Website:
- Contact:Deputy Chief Executive
- Phone:+266 22327944 +266 58870242
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- Lesotho: Statement made at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (2011)2011, Lesotho - gov
- Lesotho: Statement made at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (2009)2009, Prime Minister's Office, Lesotho - gov
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- Lesotho: Common country assessment - CCA (2000)2000, UNDG
- Lesotho: Poverty reduction strategy paper - PRSP (2006)2006, IMF; Lesotho - gov; WB
Human Exposure
| Hazard type | Population exposed |
Percentage of population  |
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| Cyclone |  |
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| Drought | 282,093 |  |
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| Flood | 1,797 |  |
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| Landslide | 24 |  |
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Source of data: 2009 Global Assessment Report |
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Top 5 Natural Disaster reported
| Disaster | Date | Affected | (no. of people) |
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| Drought | 1983 | 500,000 |  |
| Drought | 2002 | 500,000 | |
| Drought | 2007 | 475,000 | |
| Drought | 1992 | 331,500 | |
| Flood | 1987 | 100,000 | |
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Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database Data version: v11.08 *: Including tsunami Data displayed does not imply national endorsement. |
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- Disaster reduction and recovery specialist, P3Niger (Niamey), BCPR-UNDP
- Natural resources management and climate change advisorEthiopia (Addis Ababa), Save the Children U.S.
- Technical specialists - Resilience in the Limpopo river basinMozambique , ARD
Neighbouring Countries
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