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President Mauricio Funes, along with the presidents of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, Porfirio Lobo of Honduras, Daniel Ortega from Nicaragua and delegates from Belize, Costa Rica and Panama gathered together in the XXXVII Meeting of Heads of State and
A declaration of the Leaders of APEC, gathered in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, October 24-26, 2010, during the "XII Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno del Mecanismo de Dialogo y Concertacion de Tuxtla", in which they "emphasise the importan
This assessment provides estimates of the impacts of floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in El Salvador in 2009, and the estimated costs of reconstruction and recovery.
El Salvador general regulation on civil protection, prevention and mitigation of disaster submitted in support of the El Salvordor 2008 report on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action.
Submitted in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
The Law aims to adopt mechanisms of prevention, mitigation and immediate response to natural and anthropogenic disasters (inclusive of climate change related disasters), designating a public service of civil protection to operate in these eventualities.
The purpose of this decree is to prevent, mitigate and effectively address natural and man-made disasters in the country and also to deploy, in the event of such disasters.
This legislation establishes the prevention and counteracting of the effects caused by phenomena such as earthquakes, tropical storms, hurricanes, floods, droughts. For this reason, the Civil Protection, Prevention and Disaster Mitigation Fund is created.
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.