Cuba

This collection of case studies looks at practices that support the meaningful participation of women in resilience initiatives while also addressing structural inequalities.

Oxfam defines resilience as ‘the ability of women and men to realize their

Throughout the world, countries have been developing and implementing Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) policies that address the three CSS pillars: safer learning facilities (pillar 1), school disaster management (pillar 2), and risk reduction and

This case study explores how high hurricane and flooding risk and incomplete knowledge about disaster risk reduction (DRR) in communities led Cuba to incorporate DRR into the national curriculum.

La eficiencia y resultados de trabajo del Sistema de Alerta Temprana (SAT) de Cuba sitúan a la Isla en el rol de país asesor en el proyecto regional "Fortalecimiento del Sistema de Alerta Temprana para una reducción más eficiente del riesgo de desastres

This case study explores how high hurricane and flooding risk and incomplete knowledge about disaster risk reduction (DRR) in communities led Cuba to incorporate DRR into the national curriculum and develop community DRR programmes with children.

This edition of the Cred Crunch newsletter focuses on tropical cyclones in North America, with estimations of lives affected and lost and economic damages from the hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria placed in the historic context of all hurricanes since

This document charts the initial formation of Hurricane Irma in the Atlantic Ocean in late August 2017 and tracks its development as the storm moved towards the Caribbean in September. 

It presents the exposed values for the affected countries, including

This regional assessment document discusses ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) and its linkages with biodiversity in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. It highlights key opportunities to catalyse actions for Eco-DRR that embrace the importance