Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is included in the Comoros Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and is also institutionalized into the policies of the Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications and Tourism; Ministry of Health, Solidarity and Gender; Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Industry, Craft and Environment; Ministry of National Education, Research, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports; and the Ministry of Land-Use Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and Energy. Natural Risk and...
In 2002, the Comoros submitted an initial National Communication entitled ‘Convention-cadre des nations-unies sur les changements climatiques: Communication nationale initiale’ to the UNFCCC. This was followed in 2006 by the submission of a National Action Programme of Adaptation to Climate Change (NAPA) to the UNFCCC.
The current and possible impacts of climate change are likely to undermine several decades of efforts made against poverty and economic precariousness, which still...
Delegates from the Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, La Reunion and Comoros gathered in Mauritius this week with airlines serving the region now called the “Vanilla Islands,” to take stock of the situation on hand and to discuss the way forward.
The meeting was co-chaired by the Mauritian Minister for Tourism&Leisure, Mr. Nandcoomar Bodha and the President of the Region–La Reunion, Mr. Didier Robert, and assisted by Dr. Karl Mootoosamy, the Director of the MTPA of...