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Colombia
Bamboo houses to the rescue
6 Jul 2010, Miller-McCune Inc.
Elisabeth Best highlights the advantages of constructing with bamboo, a material particularly resistant to natural hazards and reflects on why the material is not more widely used...
National Platform
- National Platform Focal Point:
Dirección Prevención y Atención de Desastres (DPAD) - Website:http://www.dgpad.gov.co/
- Contact:Director of Risk Management of the Ministry of Interior of Colombia
- Phone:+571 3750934 +571 3750842
- HFA Focal Point:
Dirección Prevención y Atención de Desastres (DPAD) - Website:http://www.dgpad.gov.co/
- Contact:Director of Risk Management of the Ministry of Interior of Colombia
- Phone:+571 3750934 +571 3750842
Hyogo Framework for Action
- National Policy & Plans
- Colombia: Systematizing institutional, legal and technical aspects of risk management (2006)2006, Colombia - gov
- Colombia: National progress report on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (2007-2009)2009, Ministerio del Interior y de Justicia
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Human Exposure
| Hazard type | Population exposed |
Percentage of population  |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Cyclone | 1,459 |      |
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| Drought | 2,187,430 |  |
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| Flood | 149,876 |  |
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| Landslide | 30,624 |  |
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| Earthquake | 1,969,946 |     |
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| Tsunami | 19,715 |  |
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Source of data: 2009 Global Assessment Report |
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Top 5 Natural Disaster reported
| Disaster | Date | Affected | (no. of people) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthquake* | 1999 | 1,205,933 |  |
| Flood | 2008 | 1,200,091 | |
| Flood | 2007 | 1,162,135 | |
| Flood | 2005 | 474,607 | |
| Flood | 2007 | 443,173 | |
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Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database Data version: v11.08 *: Including tsunami Data displayed does not imply national endorsement. |
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- ACS 18th meeting of the Special Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction09-10 Sep 2010, Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo)
- Cantarin: el arroyo feliz2004, Ministerio del Interior y de Justicia; Sistema Nacional de Prevencion y Atencion de Desastres, Colombia - gov
- El bosque de las luciérnagas2002, Ministerio del Interior y de Justicia; Sistema Nacional de Prevencion y Atencion de Desastres, Colombia - gov
- Cómo elaborar un plan escolar de prevencion de desastres1989, Sistema Nacional de Prevencion y Atencion de Desastres, Colombia - gov
From ISDR System and other DRR actors
- DIPECHO project: learning and adapting to tsunamis in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile2010, ECHO; IOC; UNESCO
- Integrating the green and brown agendas in a climate change context2010, UN-HABITAT
- Technical guide for the implementation of a regional climate information system applied to the agricultural risk management in the Andean countries2009, CIIFEN
- Project manager - disaster response (Latin America/Carribean)Costa Rica (San Jose), HFHI
- Community development specialist - HaitiHaiti (Port Au Prince), HFHI
- Director, Haiti emergency (early warning)Haiti (Port-au-Prince), Save the Children U.S.
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)
- UNFCCC: Non-Annex I national communications
- UNISDR Las Américas: HFA-pedia - Columbia (in Spanish)
- UNISDR The Americas: HFA-pedia - Columbia
Neighbouring Countries
Officially declared national coordinating multi-sectoral and inter-disciplinary mechanisms for advocacy, coordination, analysis and advice on disaster risk reduction.