r the administration of t ry of Environment and U nder t Ministr Energy, the D e Division of Risk and Disast Managemen ter ement (DRDM) of Seychell is assigne les ed the responsibility o establishing y of ng and continually reviewi he capacities, cedures to enable t duction of disaster risk a nd ty in the context of the peop ple les, their security, health a ng and proc optimal re vulnerabilit of Seychell socio-econ nomic wellbeing. nd ies ere and its partners’ capaciti porative collaboration we elleng hit the Seychelles o s on 7 January 2013 bringing in ed cyclone Fe Sunday, 27 its wake h e heavy rains, and combin with high t h tide, caused devastati to coastlin on ne areas and widespre damage t ad e to infrastructure. T he nt responded rapidly and cts s housed swiftly displaced individuals and key infrastructur re such as major drains and roads on M n Mahé and La Digue pumped and cleared w floods. d within days of the dominantly normal place amidst a predo rainy season but the r e records show that rainfall for January 20 013 hit a historical high of 871 mm - twic ce as much as the monthly average of 4 00 mm. The three consecutive days du depression Felleng, uring the tropical had the highest rainfall ever recorded – a s Flash floods have h inundated houses, caused m mass movement, caused significant to property and e amounting to Officers of oof the het t Ministry inMistry of Land Land Use UUse e a and nda HaHbitat Habitat assessing damage Transferring a water pump in the TopTaz Topaz vesvsel vessel sel to transport trransport t to a L Digue island fr Digue island form Mahé La island from Aux Pins, Po ,Pointe Larue and Au Ca ‘disaster z in collaboration ollcaboration tion with with the the the Seychelles PeoPple’ e’s DDeeffence People’s Defence Forces o– ast C Guar t Guard and the – Coast the Disaster Risk Management – a matter of teamwork and improv ving capacities mechanism The TC Felleng disa ms he aster of 2013 took assessi DRDM a and corpo severely te ing sted when the tail of tropic mm. cal d significant 330 waa t w governmen declared th he three hardest-hit distric on the sou ter pump in utheast coast of Mahé (An blocked roads and c losses and damage other infrastructure a approximately US$8.6 m 6 million (Source: Seychelles DaLA 201 13 Floods). Some 400 households were a nse e affected, 17 farms Seychelles Fire and Rescue e Rescue Servic ap) ones’. It also activated t Emergency y Operations Centre a mobilised e he nd d emergency first responde Relief effo Services Agency rts were well executed, w and two police station ns were destroyed. In total 78 people w e were displaced. In addition to the declare ed ‘disaster zones’ other districts of Ma ahe island, Praslin and La Digue island w rs. ith d were also affected.
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