Equatorial Guinea: Risk-sensitive Budget Review UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UNDRR Country Reports on Public Investment Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies on public investment planning for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in cooperation with Member States. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Country Reports do not represent the official views of UNDRR or of its member countries. The opinions expressed and arguments employed are those of the author(s). Country Reports describe preliminary results or research in progress by the author(s) and are published to stimulate discussion on a broad range of issues on DRR. Front cover photo credit: UNDP Equatorial Guinea. Page i Table of contents List of figures ..........................................................................................................................................................ii List of tables ...........................................................................................................................................................iii List of boxes ...........................................................................................................................................................iii List of acronyms and abbreviations .................................................................................................................iv Currency equivalents ............................................................................................................................................iv Acknowledgements................................................................................................................................................v Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................1 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................2 2. Equatorial Guinea at a glance ........................................................................................................................3 3. Disaster risk reduction in Equatorial Guinea .............................................................................................5 3.1. Past disasters and losses .........................................................................................................................5 3.2. Disaster risk governance ..........................................................................................................................5 4. Risk-sensitive budget review .........................................................................................................................6 4.1. Methodology ..............................................................................................................................................6 4.2. Scope of the analysis.................................................................................................................................8 4.3. Principal and significant DRR marked budgets ................................................................................. 10 4.4. DRR marked budget by categories of the DRM cycle ...................................................................... 14 5. Conclusion and recommendations ............................................................................................................ 19 References ............................................................................................................................................................ 21 Annex 1: Risk-sensitive budget review methodology ................................................................................ 23 Annex 2: Government ministries, and principal and significant DRM investment ............................. 26 Page ii List of figures Figure 1: Scoring decision rule for the OECD DAC DRR policy marker and Rio marking system ...........7 Figure 2: Principal and significant DRR budget.............................................................................................. 10 Figure 3: Principal DRR investment by sector ................................................................................................ 10 Figure 4: Significant DRR investment by sector ............................................................................................ 11 Figure 5: Principal DRR investment by ministry ............................................................................................. 12 Figure 6: Significant DRR investment by ministry ......................................................................................... 14 Figure 7: Allocation of humanitarian ODA, 2015–2017................................................................................ 18 Page iii List of tables Table 1: Recorded losses from disaster, 2010–2017 ......................................................................................5 Table 2: Scope of the RSBR ..................................................................................................................................8 Table 3: Ministries with project activities with a DRR element ......................................................................9 Table 4: Principal DRR investment by sector .................................................................................................. 11 Table 5: Significant DRR investment by sector .............................................................................................. 12 Table 6: Principal DRR investment by ministry and sector .......................................................................... 13 Table 7: Significant DRR investment by ministry and sector ...................................................................... 14 Table 8: Principal DRR investment across DRM categories ....................................................................... 15 Table 9: Principal DRM investment across the disaster cycle .................................................................... 15 Table 10: Principal DRR investment across DRM categories .................................................................... 16 Table 11: Significant DRR investment across DRM categories ................................................................ 16 Table 12: Significant DRR investment across the DRM cycle ..................................................................... 17 Table 13: Significant DRR investment across DRM categories by ministry ............................................. 17 Table A1: UNDRR’s RSBR: an overview ............................................................................................................ 25 Table A2: Government ministries in Equatorial Guinea ................................................................................ 26 Table A3: Project activities marked as principal DRR by ministry .............................................................. 27 Table A4: Project activities marked as significant DRR by ministry ........................................................... 28 List of boxes Box 1: Official development assistance by DRR category ........................................................................... 18 Page iv List of acronyms and abbreviations BEAC Bank of Central African States (Banque des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale) DRM Disaster risk management DRR Disaster risk reduction FCFA CFA francs GDP Gross domestic product MDAs Ministries, departments and agencies ODA Official development assistance OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development PIB Public investment budget RSBR Risk-sensitive budget review UNDRR United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Currency equivalents Year US$1 to FCFA 2016 545.63 2017 621.94 2018 572.17 Authors’ calculation based on BEAC’s Annual Report 2017; 2018 exchange rate sourced from https://www.xe.com as at 31 December 2018. Page v Acknowledgements UNDRR wishes to express its profound appreciation for the support provided by the national authorities for disaster risk reduction/disaster risk management and by the United Nations Country Teams in the respective countries. Coordinators: : Jean-Marc Malambwe Kilolo (Economist) and Roberto Schiano Lomoriello (Associate Expert DRR Economics). Under the overall supervision of Katarina Mouakkid Soltesova (Risk Knowledge Programme Officer) and Luca Rossi (Deputy Chief of the Regional Office for Africa). Analysts (authors): Belinda Kaimuri (Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia (The), Ghana, Kenya, São Tomé and Príncipe), Brais Álvarez Pereira and Tatiana Martinez Zavala (Angola, Guinea-Bissau), Elvis Mtonga (Botswana, Cameroon, Eswatini (The Kingdom of), Namibia, Zambia), Jean-Claude Koya (Côte d’Ivoire). UNDRR particularly thanks the country experts and DRR specialists for their comments on and review of two draft versions of the analysis, specifically: Edson Fernando (Angola), Nkosiyabo Moyo (Botswana), Mariatou Yap and Celestin Kegne (Cameroon), Dr. Touré Kader and Paul Kaman (Côte d’Ivoire), Gabriel Ngua Ayecaba (Equatorial Guinea), Russell Dlamini (Eswatini (The Kingdom of)), Hortense Togo (Gabon), Sanna Dahaba and Kawsu Barrow (Gambia (The)), Koranteng Abrokwah (Ghana), Alsau Sambu, Elisio Gomes Sá, Justino Fernandes and Domingos Gomes da Costa (Guinea-Bissau), Charles Owino (Kenya),