-
- About the Hyogo Framework for Action
- HFA Progress Reports
- HFA Monitoring & Review
- Post-2015 Framework
- Global Assessment Report
- Millennium Development Goals
- ISDR Partnership
- Global Platform
- Regional Platforms & DRR Strategies
- National Platforms
- Key Documents
- Countries & Regions
-
- Capacity Development
- Civil Society/NGOs
- Climate Change
- Community-based DRR
- Complex Emergency
- Critical Infrastructure
- Disaster Risk Management
- Early Warning
- Economics of DRR
- Education & School Safety
- Environment
- Food Security & Agriculture
- Gender
- GIS & Mapping
- Governance
- Health & Health Facilities
- Indigenous Knowledge
- Information Management
- Insurance & Risk Transfer
- Media
- Public-private Partnerships
- Recovery
- Risk Identification & Assessment
- Social Impacts & Resilience
- Space Technology
- Structural Safety
- Urban Risk & Planning
- Vulnerable Populations
- Water
-
- Avalanche
- Cold Wave
- Cyclone
- Drought
- Earthquake
- Epidemic & Pandemic
- Flood
- Heat Wave
- Insect Infestation
- Land Slide
- NBC - Nuclear, Biological, Chemical
- Storm Surge
- Technical Disaster
- Tornado
- Tsunami
- Volcano
- Wild Fire
- Organization Contacts
- Networks & Communities
- Training & Events
- Academic Programmes
- Educational Materials
- Jobs
- Terminology
- Documents & Publications
- Policy, Plans & Statements
- News & Announcements
- Multimedia
- Maps
- Disaster Data & Statistics
- UN Resolutions & Reports
Colombia
Droughts, the ‘most devastating’ disasters, set to increase, warn climate change experts
22 May 2013, UN-DPI
Every one-degree rise in temperature means a 20-fold increase in global conflicts, Wadid Erian, a specialist in arid zones and dry lands, told a meeting on drought resilience this morning. He and other speakers warned that, with droughts set to become even more frequent and intense, food shortages, water shortages and conflicts will also increase...
National Platform
- National Platform Focal Point:
Dirección de Gestión del Riesgo (DGR) - Website:http://www.sigpad.gov.co
- Contact:Director
- Phone:+571 375-0888
- HFA Focal Point:
Dirección de Gestión del Riesgo (DGR) - Website:http://www.sigpad.gov.co
- Contact:Director
- Phone:+571 375-0888
Hyogo Framework for Action
- National Policy & Plans
- Colombia: Estrategia para consolidar la ejecución del Plan Nacional para la Prevención y Atención de Desastres (PNPAD) en el corto y mediano plazo2001, Colombia - gov
- Colombia: National progress report on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (2011-2013) 2012, Sistema Nacional de Prevencion y Atencion de Desastres, Colombia - gov
- Official Statements & Presentations
- Other Development Reports
- Colombia: Review of current and planned adaptation action2011, Adaptation Partnership
- Colombia: Common country assessment - CCA (2006)2006, UNDG
Top 5 Natural Disaster reported
| Disaster | Date | Affected | (no. of people) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flood | 2010 | 2,217,518 |  |
| Earthquake* | 1999 | 1,205,933 | |
| Flood | 2008 | 1,200,091 | |
| Flood | 2007 | 1,162,135 | |
| Flood | 2005 | 474,607 | |
|
Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database Data version: v11.08 *: Including tsunami Data displayed does not imply national endorsement. |
|||
- Msc. Gestion del Riesgo y DesarrolloEscuela de Ing Militares, Colombia (Bogotá)
Tsunami alert levels for the Caribbean except for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands2011, NOAA, United States of America - gov
- Cantarin: el arroyo feliz2004, Ministerio del Interior y de Justicia, Colombia - gov; Sistema Nacional de Prevencion y Atencion de Desastres, Colombia - gov
Climate resilience and disaster risk management2013, CDKN; NRDC; ODI; Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre; UG
ENSO South America2013, IRD; IGBP; CIIFEN; WCRP
External Online Resources
- Biblioteca virtual andina para la prevención y atención de desastres (BiVa-PaD)
- Con los pies en la tierra: a DPAE educational resource on earthquake in Bogotá (in Spanish)
- Corporación (OSSO)
- Desinventar: Inventory system of the effects of disasters
- UNFCCC: Non-Annex I national communications
- UNISDR Las Américas: HFA-pedia - Colombia (in Spanish)
- UNISDR The Americas: HFA-pedia - Colombia
Neighbouring Countries
Create your own view of country national HFA progress by selecting, sorting and comparing the data and information you wish to see. View it online or download a spreadsheet.
Officially declared national coordinating multi-sectoral and inter-disciplinary mechanisms for advocacy, coordination, analysis and advice on disaster risk reduction.