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Jamaica: ODPEM says time is right to build resilience

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Acting Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Richard Thompson, says the time is right for building resilience across the country.

Speaking at the launch of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change (DRMCC) Education Programme Poster Competition on May 2 at The Knutsford Court Hotel in St Andrew, Thompson cited the World Bank's 'Advancing Disaster Risk Finance in Jamaica' 2019 report, which states that Jamaica would need $16 billion annually to recover from disaster events.

He said the cost shows “a nexus between disaster risk management and economic growth and development”.

“In Jamaica, when we look at the decades, in terms of disaster risk reduction, we used to have losses of between 2.2 and 2.7 per cent of GDP. As a small island developing state (SID) like ours… you have to put measures in place to ensure that we are not having those losses,” he said.

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Themes Economics of DRR Disaster risk management Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
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