1. Local Government Climate Change Support Program 2016
Draft Waterberg DM Climate Change Response Plan

2. Presentation Contents
Climate change plan development
Activities to date
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Results
Draft Climate Change Response Actions

3. Climate Change Plan Development
Developed through the Local Government Climate Change Support Program (LGCCS)
First Step - Conducting a climate change vulnerability assessment
Second Step - Developing climate change responses
Draft plan in place for review

4. Progress to date Toolkit development
District level vulnerability assessments 17 May 2016
Draft municipal Climate Change Response Plans

5. Biodiversity and Environment

6. Waterberg Priority Indicators
Health impacts from increased storm events
Increased water borne and communicable diseases (typhoid fever, cholera & hepatitis)
Loss of industrial productivity
Increased impacts on strategic infrastructure
Increased isolation of rural communities
Increased migration to urban and peri-urban areas
Decreased income from tourism
Increased impacts of flooding from litter blocking sewer system

7. Priority Indicators: Biodiversity and Environment
Theme
Indicator Title
Biodiversity & Environment
Manage Health impacts from increased storm events
Manage increased waterborne and communicable diseases (typhoid fever, cholera & hepatitis)

8. Responses: Biodiversity and Environment
Project: Manage Health Impacts from increased storm events
Conduct an impact assessment of increased storm events on health
Identify communities that are vulnerable to impacts of increased storm events
Conduct workshops that advise communities on how to reduce the risk associated with the potential impacts of increased storm events
Establish adequate stockpiles of medications, medical supplies and other resources
Commission a reliable early warning system to alert communities and industries
Implement effective disaster management systems that will respond to the impacts of increased storm events.

9. Responses: Biodiversity and Environment
Project: Manage increased waterborne and communicable diseases (typhoid fever, cholera and hepatitis)
Strengthen information and knowledge of linkages between disease and CC
Identify communities that are vulnerable to the spread of waterborne and communicable diseases
Create awareness programmes on water borne and communicable diseases
Develop mechanisms that will enable vulnerable communities to respond to the spread of waterborne and communicable diseases
Establish adequate stockpiles of medications, medical supplies, assistive devices and other resources

10. Human Settlements

11. Priority Indicators: Human Settlements
Theme
Indicator Title
Human Settlements
Managing the Loss of industrial productivity
Manage the increased impacts on strategic infrastructure
Manage increased isolation of rural communities

12. Priority Indicators: Human Settlements (2)
Theme
Indicator Title
Human Settlements
Manage increased migration to urban and peri-urban areas
Manage the decreased income from tourism

13. Responses: Human Settlement
Project: Managing the Loss of industrial productivity
Identify and prioritise vulnerable industries and business
Commission a reliable early warning system to alert industries & businesses on the possible occurrences of emergencies
Conduct workshops to advise industries and business on how to reduce the risk associated with the potential impacts of CC
Promote the use of climate resilient technologies in industries and business

14. Responses: Human Settlement
Project: Manage the increased impacts on strategic infrastructure
Conduct risk and vulnerability assessment of CC on key transport infrastructure
Develop a framework that will equip the transport sector with responding to CC impacts
Conduct a routine assessment of transport infrastructure
Incorporate CC resilience when planning, designing and implementing transport infrastructure
Include CC resilience into tendering documents for transport infrastructure
Implement effective disaster management systems that will deal with increased number of extreme events

15. Responses: Human Settlement
Project: Manage increased isolation of rural communities
Identify alternative access routes to rural communities
Identify roads at risk of flooding and erosion and prioritise those for upgrading and maintenance
Identify local responses that will reduce isolation of rural communities
Build CC resilient road infrastructure that serves as a link for rural areas
Implement flooding drainage systems that will reduce impacts on rural roads
Develop economic nodes and improved service provision in rural areas to improve connectivity

16. Responses: Human Settlement
Project: Manage increased migration to urban and peri-urban areas
Assess drivers and dynamics of migration
Identify alternative basic service provision options for rural areas, such as water tanks, new sanitation services, etc
Develop and implement rural development programs to create economic opportunities
Promote behavioural change within communities that will contribute towards the building of economic nodes within rural areas

17. Responses: Human Settlement
Project: Manage the decreased income from tourism
Conduct CC impact assessment on tourism
Develop resilience programs for tourism assets
Investigate available alternative tourism and recreational opportunities
Develop and promote tourism opportunities that are CC robust
Develop disaster risk management plans that consider CC impacts on tourism assets

18. Water

19. Priority Indicators: Water
Theme
Indicator Title
Water
Manage the increased impacts of flooding from litter blocking sewer system

20. Responses: Water
Project: Manage the increased impacts of flooding from litter blocking sewer system
Conduct an impact assessment of CC induced litter and debris
Retrofit and modify existing water and sanitation using adaptive engineering approaches
Build CC resilient drainage infrastructure that will incorporate increased litter and debris
Commission a risk-averse approach to water quality protection by imposing stringent controls
Incorporate the possibility of extreme water-related CC events into the planning of the provision of basic services such as water
Develop a flooding early warning and response system

21. Local Government Climate Change Support Program 2016
Draft Waterberg DM Climate Change Response Plan