A National Strategic Investment Framework for Flood Risk Reduction in Ethiopia
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Ethiopia experiences a wide range of environmental hazards, including landslides, pests, earthquakes, urban and forest fires, as well as droughts. Within this context of multiple hazards, flooding is Ethiopia’s second most significant hazard (next to drought) and affects an estimated quarter of a million people annually, causing USD200 million in damages to building stock and USD3.5million in crop damage (WBG, 2019).
Ethiopia has limited flood protection infrastructure. Floods can be devasting, bringing about different social, economic, and environmental impacts. Both fluvial (riverine) and pluvial flooding (surface water from short duration rainfall) are important hazards leading significant flood damage in recent years in:
Oromia and Afar (along the upper, middle, and down-stream plains of the Awash River); Somali (along the Wabi Shebelle, Genale and Dawa Rivers)
Gambella (along the Baro, Gilo, Alwero and Akobo Rivers)
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR - along the Omo and Bilate Rivers)
Lake Tana (in the surrounding and extensive floodplains)
Amhara (along the banks of Gumera, Rib and Megech Rivers).
To help manage the flood risks in the short and long term, the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) requested technical and financial support from the World Bank. In response the Bank is supporting the GoE in preparing an investment programme - the Ethiopia Integrated Disaster Risk Management Project (IDRMP) – which aims to strengthen Ethiopia’s institutional capacity for disaster risk management, and flood risk management in selected basins. Sayers and Partners an JBA worked on this assignment seeks to develop a strategic investment framework to inform the dialogue between World Bank and GoE and to help prioritise investments in physical flood risk reduction infrastructure.
Our supporting tool developed as part of an earlier UKSA funded programme was also extended - the Awash Future Flood Explorer see here
Ethiopia has limited flood protection infrastructure. Floods can be devasting, bringing about different social, economic, and environmental impacts. Both fluvial (riverine) and pluvial flooding (surface water from short duration rainfall) are important hazards leading significant flood damage in recent years in:
Oromia and Afar (along the upper, middle, and down-stream plains of the Awash River); Somali (along the Wabi Shebelle, Genale and Dawa Rivers)
Gambella (along the Baro, Gilo, Alwero and Akobo Rivers)
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR - along the Omo and Bilate Rivers)
Lake Tana (in the surrounding and extensive floodplains)
Amhara (along the banks of Gumera, Rib and Megech Rivers).
To help manage the flood risks in the short and long term, the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) requested technical and financial support from the World Bank. In response the Bank is supporting the GoE in preparing an investment programme - the Ethiopia Integrated Disaster Risk Management Project (IDRMP) – which aims to strengthen Ethiopia’s institutional capacity for disaster risk management, and flood risk management in selected basins. Sayers and Partners an JBA worked on this assignment seeks to develop a strategic investment framework to inform the dialogue between World Bank and GoE and to help prioritise investments in physical flood risk reduction infrastructure.
Our supporting tool developed as part of an earlier UKSA funded programme was also extended - the Awash Future Flood Explorer see here