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PDC assessment and exercise aid Bahamas hurricane season preparedness and DRR

The Bahamas and its new Prime Minister have entered this year’s hurricane season better equipped for an above-normal hurricane forecast in addition to the ongoing challenges posed by climate change in the region.
Pacific Disaster Center
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Documents and publications
2022

Economic Consequences Assessment Model (ECAM): A tool & methodology for measuring indirect economic effects

The contributing paper explains how indirect economic impacts are computed, the necessary input data, and includes example applications for a hypothetical multi-dam breach, a hypothetical earthquake, and a hypothetical hurricane in the Caribbean.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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Documents and publications
2021

Health and climate change: country profile 2021: the Bahamas

This country profile for the Bahamas provides a summary of available evidence on climate hazards, health vulnerabilities, health impacts and progress to date in health sector efforts to realize a climate-resilient health system.
World Health Organization Pan American Health Organization United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Educational materials
2021

Hurricane watch

This is a comic for youth and adults to raise awareness on the importance of leaving no one behind in times of COVID-19 during hurricane season. This comic has been designed for the Caribbean, but can be used in other parts of the world.
French Red Cross
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Documents and publications
2021

Climate risk profile: Eastern and Southern Caribbean 2021

This profile documents the projected climate impacts in the Eastern and Southern Caribbean (ESC) region. The high vulnerability to climate impacts in the region often drive direct integration of climate risk management into planning processes.
United States Agency for International Development
Documents and publications
2021

Program to support the health system strengthening of the Bahamas

This report refers to an operation that aims to support the strengthening of The Bahamas health system to meet the health needs of the population by (i) integrating primary and secondary care services that DPH, PHA and NHIA deliver; (ii) improving access

Inter-American Development Bank
Documents and publications
2021

Advancing gender equality in environmental migration and disaster displacement in the Caribbean

Disaster displacement and environmental migration are among the most serious humanitarian challenges facing the Caribbean. As a subregion of small island developing States (SIDS) which are vulnerable and prone to extreme weather events and the impacts of climate change
International Organization for Migration Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
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UNICEF and CDEMA partner to protect Caribbean children in disasters and emergencies

UNICEF's Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office and CDEMA signed a MoU to co-operate on the development of more resilient communities.
United Nations Children's Fund - The Americas and Caribbean Regional Office
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Cash-short Caribbean confronts hurricane fears after COVID blow

Climate-vulnerable Caribbean states had been facing "three monsters", the pandemic, climate disasters, and an economic recession.
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
Documents and publications
2020

Displacement in paradise: Hurricane Dorian slams the Bahamas

Hurricane Dorian, the strongest hurricane on record to hit the Bahamas, made landfall on Elbow Cay, east of Grand Abaco, on 1 September 2019. For three days, the category 5 storm battered Abaco and Grand Bahama, causing catastrophic damage and destroying

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre