South Africa

This disaster risk finance (DRF) diagnostic was prepared as part of a broader engagement between the World Bank and the Government of South Africa (GoSA) on strengthening national and municipal resilience.

This report explores the potential for CRAs to be used as a tool for assessing adaptation effectiveness, expanding on the implications of designing or updating CRAs and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems for NAP processes.

Floods threaten tourism infrastructure, given their destructive nature. This study maps and evaluates flooding hotspots in 19 South African national parks and assesses flood occurrence and their impact on tourism.

This report anticipates that higher-than-average temperatures predicted for the Limpopo Basin from June to November 2023 will have a negative impact on maize yields in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

This study investigated whether DRR is adequately funded within SADC member states in light of the high stakes in human life, infrastructure, and economic losses and the potential savings involved.

Increasingly, city governments are having to deal with climate change repercussions alongside those of other disasters, all while addressing its implications for both daily life and future sustainability.

The report assess the priorities, resource needs and current resource flows for adaptation in South Africa, and the nature of current gaps and barriers to access at subnational level.

This paper summarizes the immediate outputs and outcomes of a multi-stakeholder dialogue process that was initiated in 2020 and supported by a hydro-economic analysis. It focused on improving understanding of the economic implications of water resources.