Regional Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM): strategy and results framework 2014-2024 - Summary

This document presents a summary of the Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) strategy, which promotes an integrated risk management approach to building resilience and safeguarding lives and livelihoods against multiple risk scenarios in the Caribbean region for the period 2014-2024.

It is founded on lessons learned from past strategies and emerging priorities from the regional and international context and is intended to be a guide for continued progress in disaster risk management in the region, ensuring that the lives, property and livelihoods of Caribbean people are safeguarded. It seeks to ensure greater penetration and integration of CDM into new sectors and greater involvement of communities.