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Displaying 120 of about 306 resultsThe aim of the Enabling Gender-Responsive Disaster Recovery, Climate and Environmental Resilience in the Caribbean (EnGenDER) Project is to identify and address any gaps to ensure equal access to disaster risk resilience, climate change and environment solutions for women, men, boys and girls in nine beneficiary Caribbean countries, including Antigua an…
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The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB or the Bank) is seeking to recruit an experienced professional to perform the role of Knowledge Management/Public Education (KM/PE) Specialist for its Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funded Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (CDRRF) Project. The successful candidate will be based at…
Introduction
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB or the Bank) is seeking to recruit an experienced professional to perform the role of Project Manager (PM), for its Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funded Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (CDRRF). The successful candidate will be based at CDB’s office in St. Michael, Barbados.
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Mitigation and Preparedness Specialist, CDEMA Coordinating Unit. The CDEMA Coordinating Unit (CU) is inviting applications for the post of Mitigation and Preparedness Specialist. The Mitigation and Preparedness Specialist (MPS) will focus on strengthening of the national programmes in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and climate change issues…
Guinea-Bissau is thus exposed to the negative effects of climate changes in almost all productive sectors of national life, particularly as when it comes to its population and natural ecosystems. Among the foreseen consequences, the nation singles out a fall in agricultural, forest and grazing production, loss of human lives arising from malnutrit…
This study provides an in-depth analysis of advancing climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction with a specific focus on how integrated regulatory instruments across different sectors can enhance effective and consistent action. Among the most affected small island Caribbean states, the Commonwealth of Dominica is fast becoming a global…
In the face of multiple global crises, debt-for-climate swaps are being widely discussed as an instrument to manage mounting public debts, climate change challenges and Covid-19 recovery. Belize is a small island developing state in the Caribbean region facing these challenges. The Government of Belize has requested the Commonwealth Secretariat to provi…
This publication presents a Climate & Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) -supported project, aimed to inform decision-makers by assessing the vulnerability of Belize's tourism sector to climate change. It further proposes solutions to climate-related threats, involving communities, tourism businesses, and the government.
Key messages include:…
This brief is part of a series highlighting the World Bank's achievements in disaster risk management initiatives. The brief reports on the efforts of the Government of Belize's efforts to respond to increasing incidence of climate-related disasters - the new National Climate Resilience Investment Plan (NCRIP) cuts across all sectors of the economy to i…
This study aims to contribute to the development of a flood management plan in the Union of Comoros. It follows a transversal, descriptive and analytic methodology to obtain information on flood management in the country, including visits to the disaster management structures and communities affected by the floods, and mapping of the areas vulnerable to…
Aligning with the priorities outlined in the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, this plan responds to the need to develop a longer-term strategic approach that helps articulate funding and program priorities to allow for comprehensive disaster programming that reduces future humanitaria…
This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in West Africa. For the purpose of this review, West Africa is defined as including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. The review first provides an over…
This paper critically reviews the ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) to climate change in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS), focusing on the need to integrate local and external knowledge. An analysis of current EbA in the Caribbean is undertaken alongside a review of methodologies used to integrate local and external expertise for EbA. F…
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El Comité Oceanográfico Nacional (CON) de Cuba y la Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencias del Mar (ALICMAR), han decido organizar, de manera conjunta, el VIII Congreso de Ciencias del Mar y el XIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencias del Mar, denominado ColacMarCuba’2009.
Se dará prioridad a las contribuciones de cualquier campo específ…
Disaster displacement and environmental migration are among the most serious humanitarian challenges facing the Caribbean. As a subregion of small island developing States (SIDS) which are vulnerable and prone to extreme weather events and the impacts of climate change, the Caribbean is constantly faced with population displacement resulting from these…