Thursday, June 24th from 13:00—14:00 (GMT+2)
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Cyclone Idai and community resilience in the Buzi, Pungwe and Save river basins of
Mozambique and Zimbabwe

The presentation is based on the findings of the USAID funded Resilient Waters Program project assessing the impacts of Cyclone Idai  in Mozambique and Zimbabwe and possibilities to strengthen community resilience.  It discusses the impacts of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique and Zimbabwe with particular reference to the BuPuSa transboundary river basins. It first discusses the impacts of the cyclone, and then reviews relief and mitigation measures before concluding with key issues for strengthening preparedness, particularly at the community level.
Presenter: Dr Jaap Arntzen (Director: Centre for Applied Research, Gaborone, Botswana)
Discussants: Rika Preiser (CST)

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A picture containing person, person, wall, posing Description automatically generatedJaap Arntzen is an environmental economist and sustainable rural development expert, and is the director of the Centre for Applied Research, Gaborone, Botswana. He was the team leader of a USAID funded Resilient Waters Program project on the impacts of Cyclone Idai  in Mozambique and Zimbabwe and  possibilities to strengthen community resilience. He has forty years of work experience in Botswana and southern Africa.  He worked previously at the University of Botswana (Dep. Of Environmental Science & National Institute for Research) and the Free University, Amsterdam (Institute for Environmental Studies). He worked on transboundary river basins, particularly the Cubango Okavango River Basin and the Buzi, Pungwe and Save (BuPuSa) basins. His PhD in Environmental Economics dealt with ‘Environmental Pressure and Adaptation in Rural Botswana’.