Jamaica

The Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Act of 2021 amends Jamaica's earlier DRM law adopted in 2015. The law is intended to adequately implement and address measures to combat various calamitous events, including a pandemic; and for connected matters.

This desk review aims at evaluating gender-responsive disaster preparedness and recovery efforts in the nine CFR Caribbean countries.

The disaster risk reduction (DRR) - PFM (public financial management) review focuses on five key elements of the PFM system in Jamaica.

This report aims to provide an overview of the gender and climate resilience nexus in the Caribbean and provide gender-inclusive recommendations for climate resilience programmes in the region. This report has been developed within the context of the

This paper describes a modeling methodology that embeds climate damages from natural disasters and risk management strategies into a macroeconomic model for Jamaica. The modeled damages take the form of capital destruction, and the risk management

The Water Resources Authority was asked by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management to conduct a site visit to Shooter’s Hill St. Andrew to investigate the recent landslides and to advice on possible corrective or mitigative measures.

This study assesses the dollar benefit of a neighborhood approach intervention on disaster risk reduction in small-sized, densely populated, and hazard-prone informal settlements across Latin American and Caribbean countries. The authors use a life

With the example of Grenada, Jamaica, Mozambique and Tajikistan, this report of the Climate Investment Funds (CFI) is about how can PPCR support developing countries to upgrade and modernize their weather and climate information services (WCIS).

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