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Displaying 15 of about 35 resultsThis report presents the results of the Sectoral Recovery Capacity Assessment (SRCA) undertaken in Grenada to assess the capacity of the country’s housing sector to plan, design, implement, monitor, and evaluate resilient and inclusive recovery projects. Housing was selected as the priority sector for the SRCA by the Government of Grenada due to its eco…
A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk reduction recognize the vulnerability Arab cities and towns to disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes,…
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La Facultad de Construcciones y el Departamento de Ingeniería Civil de la Universidad de Oriente, tienen el gusto de invitarlo a participar en Conferencia Internacional de Peligrosidad, Riesgo Geológico e Ingeniería Sísmica y de Desastres (SISMOS 2012) , que contará con el co-auspicio de Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Sismológicas (CENAI…
By Melanius Alphonse
Following hurricanes Erika and Maria’s devastation to Dominica, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit became a beacon of hope and rose to the challenge not only to ensure that more than 5,000 Dominicans will be able to relocate into new homes, but he also embarked on an ambitious goal to ensure that Dominica becomes the world’s first cl…
The importance of reducing exposure to disasters took on a personal hue for the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström.
The envoy had been due to present the Secretary-General's Report on the Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to the UN General Assembly in the first w…
The United Nations has completed a first-of-its-kind assessment of disaster risk reduction efforts in the Dominican Republic, recommending that the Caribbean nation strengthen building codes as part of its efforts to mitigate the impact of hurricanes and other hazards.
The assessment, carried out in May by the UN International Strategy for Disaster Red…
A UK-funded PAHO project will make safer and greener health facilities in Dominica, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and St. Lucia to deliver care in disasters.
Bridgetown, Barbados - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) selected 16 hospitals and health centers in seven Caribbean countries to make them safer,…
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, 21 August 2015 – A group of Cuban students has won an international prize awarded to budding architects who deploy their talents to reduce the risk of disasters.
The four-member team from the Central University Marta Abreu de las Villas won their award at the 7th i-Rec student competition in London, where the jury lauded their p…
The Caribbean island of Barbuda still bears the battle scars of its most brutal encounter with climate change. In 2017, Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 leviathan of unprecedented power, roared across its pristine turquoise waters.The island’s only storm shelter collapsed, with 300 people hiding inside. Around 95 per cent of Barbuda’s buildings were wrecked…
Los Talleres Internacionales de Ingeniería y Arquitectura para la Reducción de Desastres (TIARD), los que ya van a su Quinta Edición en el 2010, serán convocado por el Centro Nacional de Referencia para la Prevención y Mitigación de Desastres (PREMIDES).
En el marco de la 15 Convención Científica de Ingeniería y Arquitectura (CCIA 15), convoca desde el…
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 preparation for the 'Caribbean Cities Getting Ready' event taking place in Santo Domingo in August 2010, Oxfam is calling for papers on tools, lessons learned, and best practices in urban risk reduction and governance in the Caribbean region. The papers may cover one or several of the themes of the 10-point checklist: 'Essentials for making cities r…
The Caribbean Net News reports that islands have been requested by an Organisation of East Caribbean States (OECS) official to start preparing for the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which forecasters have predicted will be above average.
“Every country has to take responsibility. Then again the disaster preparedness offices, the NEMOS or the equivalen…
Channel 7 News Belize reports that a memorandum of understanding was signed between the United States Agency for International Development, USAID and the Government of Belize for the development of a national policy to prepare schools for disasters.
“It is all a part of this initiative of the Ministry to ensure that classroom and schools are more child…
Students from the ‘Marta Abreu’ Central University of Las Villas, won the first prize of the International Student Competition on Architecture for Disaster Reduction, reports the Cuban News Agency. The students' work, was based on a study carried out in the village in the north of Villa Clara frequently hit by hurricanes and tropical storms.
Jorge Luis…