Integrating security risks in local adaptation to disaster risks and climate change in the Sahel region: the Badolo LocalMultiriskAdapation model

Abstract

In the Sahel region, the impacts of security risks on economic sectors, basic social services and development dynamics have profoundly modified the local resilience challenges. They modify contextual vulnerabilities to disaster risks and climate change, increase resilience needs and alter local resilience course and capacities. The consequences of security risks could include significant local resilience to climate change regressions. For local governments, a relevant and efficient response to these consequences of security risks could be the adoption of integrated local adaptation plans. In this article, the methodological tools and resilience approach of the ClimResilience Scientific Framework are used to develop the Badolo LocalMultiriskAdapation model. It is a scientific tool to strengthen the capacities of local governments to elaborate and implement multirisk, multidimensional integrated responses to disaster risks, climate change and security risks. Specifically, it is, for local governments, an efficient scientific tool to characterize and achieve successive progress related to adaptation to disaster risks, climate change and security risks, taking into account local specificities and capacities.In practice, the implementation of the Model that we propose requires scientific partnerships and local governance of adaptation which is participatory, inclusive, fundamentally characterized by integrated management of disaster risks, climate change and security risks.