The Cape Town case highlights how disaster planning for slow-onset city-wide shocks will be become increasingly important to safeguard equity and sustainability across African cities . It demonstrates the importance of integrating state and non-state responses to climate change in municipal adaptation and disaster planning , particularly for responses with unintended consequences. Further, water tariff models need to be flexible enough and have built- in redundancies in order to prioritise the needs of the urban poor and ensure climate responses do not disproportionately affect low- income groups and deepen existing inequalities . Systems and relationships of mutual accountability can also build more effective water management between spheres of government and enhance horizontal collaboration between municipal departments and non-state entities .
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