ACP steps in to rescue Africa from climate change impacts
By Jeffrey Moyo
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With the Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) assisting to combat climate change impacts in Africa, in Southern Africa’s mountain kingdom, last year the Lesotho Disaster Management Agency (DMA) instituted the first systematic analysis of Lesotho’s water management system to assess its vulnerability to climate change.
With funding from the ACP-EU, Lesotho’s Disaster Management Agency then, through technical support from the World Bank and the World Food Programme (WFP), established and installed the physical infrastructure for an Early Warning System (EWS) in 2015.
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“A number of developments meant to help the kingdom to defeat climate change impacts have been instituted by organisations such as ACP and this has seen slight improvements especially in the agricultural sector over the past three years,” [Litsitso Motsephe, a climate change expert in Lesotho,] told IDN.
Not only Lesotho has stood to benefit from measures introduced by ACP. Even other poor African countries like Swaziland have had their fair share of help from ACP, thanks to the organization’s initiative of supporting disaster risk management and climate change adaptation activities in ACP countries through technical assistance and capacity building.
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