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Reseña sobre experiencias recopiladas en las actuaciones del sistema nacional de emergencias de Uruguay

This document provides historical overview of Uruguay’s disasters and discusses country’s capacity to respond and the achievements and challenges of the national emergency system.

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World Bank/Uruguay: Improvements in sanitation and risk management will benefit population

In order to mitigate risks of floods and droughts, this World Bank supported project will promote greater reliability in the water supply and sanitation systems through improvements in the efficiency and management capacity of the company responsible for delivering water and sanitation services in Uruguay...
World Bank, the
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Adaptation Fund Board approves $50.7 million in grant funding, including one direct access project in Jamaica

The AFB supported programme will introduce measures to protect livelihoods and food security in Jamaican communities that are particularly vulnerable to the ill effects of climate change...
Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat
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Ecuador: Taller regional de planificación de la Red para la reducción de desastres

En el taller se elaboró la estrategia y plan de acción de la Red al 2015 con miras a cumplirse el periodo del Marco de Acción de Hyogo...
Redes de Gestión de Riesgos y Adaptación al Cambio climático
Photo by arditpg Ardiansyah Michwan CC BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/arditpg/2528001272
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Embajadores de Grulac proponen una red de gestión de desastres con Japón

Los embajadores en Japón del Grupo de Países Latinoamericanos y del Caribe propusieron, hoy en Sendai, crear una red de cooperación en la gestión de desastres entre municipios de Japón y América Latina, informó a Efe una fuente diplomática...
El Nuevo Diario - Nicaragua
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Review of current and planned adaptation action: South America

This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in South America, covering the following 12 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. The review first

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Uruguay: Review of current and planned adaptation action

This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications

by Flick user GustavoBuriola / Gustavo, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/catambu/155207594/in/photostream/
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Uruguay: Manejo de riesgos ante catástrofes naturales

El Acontecer informó que el Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA) y el Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA) lanzaron una Guía Técnica que permitirá el acceso de los agricultores más pobres a los servicios financieros que les permitirán afrontar mejor el impacto de los desastres naturales....
El Acontecer

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