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Displaying 15 of about 20 resultsOn September 18, 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Dominica, bringing intense rainfall which caused flashfloods and landslides. Hurricane Maria was one of the most rapidly intensifying storms in recent history, intensifying to a category 5 hurricane.
The impacts of Hurricane Maria were severe for both the country’s economy as well as the human development of…
More than 400 professionals from 48 countries attended this meeting to identify lessons learned with regard to the preparedness for and response to two of the most devastating hurricanes of the last decades: Georges and Mitch. The recommendations in this document were drafted in 20 working group sessions that were coordinated by one or several of the co…
This study to undertake a macro-economic and social assessment of the effects of Hurricane Ivan on the performance of the Grenadian economy in the short, medium and long term, was initiated as a result of a visit by the Director General of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, to the Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Keith Mitchell, on 10 September -…
This Rapid Damage and Impact Assessment report was prepared by the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica following the devastating impacts of Tropical Storm Erika on August 27, 2015. It was undertaken jointly with technical support from the World Bank in close conjunction with other development partners and international organizations. …
This fact sheet presents a project that supports local population in planning and implementing reconstruction in the aftermath of heavy rain in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
On September 6, 2017, Hurricane Irma hit the Islands of Barbuda and Antigua with catastrophic effects. Hurricane Irma made landfall as a category 5 storm (Saffir-Simpson scale). Compounding the situation, on September 18, Hurricane Maria (also a category 5 storm) affected the island of Antigua. Although Hurricane Maria did not make landfall, Antigua was…
This Results in Resilience story describes how the Africa Caribbean Pacific-European Union Natural Disaster Risk Reduction (ACP-EU NDRR) Program has supported Dominica following Hurricane Maria in September 2017, through a first project to conduct a Post-Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNA) and another project which aims to improve the application and upta…
In this report, the Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth resolves to:
(a) develop inventories of the advance warning resources and systems available in each of the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific Ocean regions; and through this, to
(b) identify aspects of these systems which need strengthening, including the human and institutional capacity and informa…
The assessment analysed and computed the direct and indirect effects of Emily on the economy. This allowed the team to project the impact of the damages on overall macro economic performance and to identify recommendations as the basis to guide the continued rehabilitation and recovery of the economic, social and environmental sectors. Every attempt was…
This paper explains the excess rainfall parametric insurance product of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and Swiss Re Excess Rainfall (XSR), which helps to mitigate the short-term cash flow problems small developing economies suffer after major natural disasters. The product is aimed primarily at extreme high rainfall events of…
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This paper explains the parametric insurance system of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) in the event of a hurricane or an earthquake. The paper explains the differences between parametric insurance systems and indemnity-based systems, how payments are calculated, and the CCRIB catastrophe model.…
This report seeks to analyse the strengths and gaps of the legal and policy frameworks related to disaster recovery in The Bahamas, particularly within the context of the ongoing recovery efforts from Hurricane Dorian, as well as examining the provisions of the new Disaster Risk Management Act, 2022. Like other Caribbean countries, The Bahamas had…
This desk review recognizes the importance of evidence-based approaches to disaster risk management (DRM), and aims at evaluating gender-responsive disaster preparedness and recovery efforts in the nine CFR Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname. T…
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El Presidente de la República Dominicana, Danilo Medina, aprobó mediante el Decreto No. 275-13 el “Plan Nacional de Gestión Integral del Riesgo de Desastres en la República Dominicana”, cuyo propósito es definir los lineamientos de política y principios básicos que deben desarrollar las instituciones de los sectores público y privado, así c…
The PDNA of the 2014 Pico do Fogo volcanic eruption aims at providing the country of Cabo Verde with an assessment based on an internationally accepted methodology for resource and partnership mobilization in order to effectively recover and reconstruct after a disaster event. It is the result of efforts made by the Government of Cabo Verde and its inte…