Disaster Risk Profile Analysis for Better Decision on Climate Financing Instrument in Mauritania

Abstract

Climate change impact increasingly led to humanitarian assistance increase and needed. To better address climate change impacts mitigation, a suitable financing instrument is essential to facilitate government, humanitarian, and other stakeholders finance mobilization. However, few studies are done on disaster risk profiling to guide decision makers in their chois. Disaster risk profile analysis has been conducted in Mauritania to facilitate financial resources mobilization and climate finance instrument chois by identifying Historical drought and flood events. To do so, published papers; and some international institution website dealing with climate hazard events such as Reliefweb, Hazard/risk, climate information services, Relief Web; CRED- EM-DAT; World Bank Climate Knowledge Portal, World Bank- UNDRR -ThinkHazard, WFP ARC/GeoNode/VAM/DataViz addressing Mauritania country have been assimilated for evidence accumulation and synthesis and presented in a database. Furthermore, national statistics and national reports on hazards have been also being reviewed. Before starting the reading exercise, a reading/analytical framework has been elaborated. Thirteen (13) drought events have been occurred between 1965 t0 2020; in Mauritania and the most exposed regions of drought are Brakna , Gorgol and Assaba. while from year 1984 to 2020; fifteen 15 floods year events have been occurred in Mauritania and the most regions impacts are Tangant, Trarza and Inchiri.Time return period of identified hazards has been estimated and compared to identify the suitable climate disaster risk financing instrument for flood and for drought. Drought events are less frequent than flood events, however, drought event affect more population than flood. Also, the yearly response cost for drought event is US D million 192.984 with an average US 204.37 cost per affected population. For the flood event the yearly response cost is US D 1 428 707 With USD 90. 45 per affected population. Macro-insurance and CAT bonds are more suitable and recommended to better address drought events while Anticipatory action and government contingence fund are more suitable to better address flood events in Mauritania.