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Preparedness

The knowledge and capacities developed by governments, response and recovery organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to and recover from the impacts of likely, imminent or current disasters.

Preparedness action is carried out within the context of disaster risk management and aims to build the capacities needed to efficiently manage all types of emergencies.

This theme covers aspects related to preparedness, contingency planning, disaster response plans, prevention, anticipatory action.

What’s the difference between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster risk management (DRM)?

Latest Preparedness additions in the Knowledge Base

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Leslie John Walling, Coordinator of the Fund, described this new regional facility as 'responsive, results-based and community centred'...

Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency
Canadian International Development Agency
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Trabajos de infraestructura se aceleran en el país antes del inicio de las lluvias para evitar inundaciones...

El Telégrafo C.A.
Documents and publications

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction thematic platform for knowledge and education, consultation version, November 2008

Guidance document for school administrators, teachers, education authorities, school safety committees and similar

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Educational materials

A 14 minute DVD film showing what children have learned about earthquake dangers and how they respond to drills in Himachal Pradesh, India. In local language, but with English subtitles.

Sustainable Environmental and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS)
Documents and publications

All of society - the public and the private sector – ends up facing the consequences of disasters. It follows that all of society, the private sector included, has a role to play in reducing disaster risk. Natural hazards need not result automatically in

Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning
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Según el Diario Granma, representantes de 21 países iberoamericanos reunidos hoy en Isla Margarita, Venezuela, instaron a la responsabilidad compartida de los estados, organizaciones y sectores públicos y privados en la administración de los desastres...

Diario Granma
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Disaster management practitioners and experts from across the region and beyond will meet in Barbados in December for the 3rd Caribbean Conference on Disaster Management the annual disaster management forum...

Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency
Educational materials

The video shows how school children in Central America have been affected by the impact of natural hazards. Their education suffers when schools are turned into temporary shelters, often for an extended period of time. Education in disaster preparedness

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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