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Disaster risk management and climate change adaptation issues are not well coordinated across city departments in Addis Ababa and there is no collaboration or support from the federal level. Ethiopia is recognized as an emerging leader within Africa on systematically advancing climate adaptation and DRM and a new National Policy and Strategy on Disaster Risk Management was adopted in July 2013. The new NPS-DRM introduces a bold paradigm shift from a system that mainly focused on drought response and emergency relief assistance toward a modern DRM system. To operationalize its new DRM policy, the GOE prepared a Disaster Risk Management Strategic Programme and Investment Framework, which provides a basis for the prioritization and planning of investments that will drive Ethiopia’s DRM system. However, the new DRM policy, which focuses primarily on rural areas, does not include Addis Ababa. MUDHCo is responsible for urban DRM, but mainly has a focus on secondary cities