Results of Disaster Risk Reduction (DDR) initiatives in South Africa
Abstract
South Africa is a developing country in the southern part of Africa. The country embraced disaster risk reduction (DRR) as its new disaster risk management (DRM) approach although that was being implemented differently in specific countries. Methods: An in-depth and extensive review of relevant literature was carried out. After that, findings were validated through discussions and circulation of results to appropriate authoritative citizens of relevant countries for comments which were subsequently incorporated to this paper. Results: The study revealed that, South Africa has a different DRR implementation levels that other countries. The approaches were customised to suit specific country’s prevailing political and administrative systems that resultantly, their DRR challenges and successes also varied.
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