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The Jamaican Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has created the National Disaster Risk Management Volunteers’ Programme (NDRMVP). The program seeks to bring under one umbrella, volunteers from various institutions and organizations with capacity to mobilize people and equipment across the island to render service in the pre- and post-impact phases of a disaster...
The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) reports that funds have gone to implement 1,600 projects in four parishes under the European Union-funded Poverty Reduction Programme (PRP) - projects that are helping to attain the outcomes of the country's long-term National Development Plan, Vision 2030 Jamaica, including sustainable management and use of environmental and natural resources; and hazard risk reduction and adaption to climate change...
The 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 'is a wake-up call for countries to increase their commitment to invest in smart solutions to strengthen resilience to disasters,' said Margareta Wahlström, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's Special Representative on Disaster Risk Reduction, whose office prepared the report...
The project, the first adaptation programme implemented by the IDB under the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience of the Climate Investment Funds, will help Jamaica mainstream climate change into its development planning, reports the Jamaica Observer...
More than CA$95,000 to aid Jamaica in implementing disaster risk reduction projects has been set aside, reports the Jamaica Observer. The projects aim to strengthen the capacity of communities to mitigate the effects of disasters, such as mangrove husbandry and protection to reduce vulnerability to storm surge...
'Climate-smart agriculture employs an ecological approach. Everyone has to survive in this changing environment, so we need to know how to adapt,' said IICA consultant on climate-smart agriculture, Steve Maximay in an interview with Jamaica Observer...
'We will continue to introduce the appropriate technologies and programmes to protect against damages from earthquakes… The Ministry remains committed to advancing the efforts of building a Jamaica that is resilient to disasters in general and certainly for earthquakes,' said a Ministry of Local Government representative...
'Generally speaking, many experts say if we are prepared well we can minimise the economic loss,' she said, adding that his advice would also be that regional countries should seek to allocate a percentage of their national budget towards disaster risk reduction...
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