Extent of Resilience to Climate Change in Secondary Cities of Rwanda (Energy Land Use and Natural Environment): Case Study of Rusizi District

Abstract

This paper titled Extent of resilience to climate change in secondary cities of Rwanda: Case study of Rusizi District. The author Evaluated the current climate related hazards and their impacts on urban livelihoods in Rusizi secondary city community. The author adopted a mixed method approach. The location quotient formula allows researcher to calculate whether a region is employing enough workers in each sector as put up against a national economy. LQ is augmented by two other pieces of information. Size of industry/cluster/occupation in terms of job and percentage of changes in LQ over period of time. A high LQ industry with a small number of jobs may be an export oriented industry otherwise, a large high LQ-industry with declining LQ over time is endangering the regional economy. The result findings revealed that Location Quotient for total employment is below 1 for manufacturing (0.99), accommodation food (0.92), public sector (0.65) primary (0.21) as well as other activities (0.87). The findings also revealed that there is a limited attention in infrastructure development and inadequate commitment in building resilience of vulnerable community to natural shocks. Recommendations include addressing infrastructure development that are resilient to climate change effects in formal and informal settlements and supporting livelihood improvement program in secondary cities and to put in place Formalized collection and recycling systems, and sanitary landfills, requiring investment in equipment, landfill development and skills of US$4-8 million by 2030 by also adopting new planning process to incorporate Green growth climate resilience principles as adopted by the GoR in 2018, by mainstreaming climate change resilience and preparedness to disaster risk management into the planning process.