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Displaying 15 of about 71 resultsGENEVA, 21 May 2013 - Senior government officials from developing small island states and climate change experts have warned of a massive increase in human, economic and material losses in these countries if risk reduction measures are not taken urgently to mitigate the impacts of major hazards and climate change.
The warning was issued by repres…
GENEVA, 13 August 2012 - A new study by UNICEF and UNESCO is a timely assessment of just how some countries are faring, or not, with the implementation of disaster risk reduction education seven years after such education was requested by the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA).
The HFA - the 10-year global disaster risk reduction action plan agreed upon…
The present systematization carried out by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) compiles Good Practices in Post-disaster Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the aim of spreading and highlighting the work and recovery processes that are coming taking place in different countries of the region. This systematization compiles some goo…
This declaration maintains the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) as a body for consultation, concerted action, co-operation while stressing the relevance of its work in the domains of trade, sustainable tourism, transport, disaster risk reduction, and therefore agrees that the best way to tackle this vulnerability is by incorporating comprehensive d…
This collection of case studies looks at practices that support the meaningful participation of women in resilience initiatives while also addressing structural inequalities.
Oxfam defines resilience as ‘the ability of women and men to realize their rights and improve their wellbeing despite shocks, stresses and uncertainty’. The Oxfam Framework for Re…
This brochure presents the products combining risk reduction and insurance for low income groups such as small-holding farmers and day labourers that will be designed and implemented by the Climate Risk Adaptation and Insurance in the Caribbean programme. It targets medium-level weather extremes (e.g. hurricanes and droughts) through five goals: (i) hel…
This book presents a global knowledge base of lessons learned from good practices in multi-hazard early warning systems. It documents seven good practices: (i) the tropical cyclone early warning system of Cuba; (ii) the Bangladesh cyclone preparedness program: a vital component of the nation's multi-hazard early warning system; (iii) the French vigilanc…
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…
El pasado 23 y 24 de febrero se realizó en Quito el taller regional de planificación de la Red Global de organizaciones de la sociedad civil para la reducción de desastres que contó con la participación de 22 representantes de América Latina y El Caribe (Perú, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brasil, Venezuela, Uruguay, Paraguay, El Salvador, Nicarag…
This report presents the findings of an assessment undertaken by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) during 2010-2011 which assessed the institutional and technical capacities and needs of the Caribbean region to support Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) and risk assessment. The findings provide the foundation for future capacity develo…
This draft report has been prepared by Environmental Resources Management on behalf of the Department for International Development. The objective of the report is to present a high-level, desk-based assessment of the economic costs of disasters, and of the costs and benefits of various approaches to managing the risks of natural disasters, normally kno…
Since its establishment, the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) has organized four Summits of Heads of State and Government, which took place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, in August 1995; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in April 1999; Margarita Island, Venezuela, in December 2001; and Panama City, Republic of Panama, in July 2005.
This y…
The event will discuss climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in the Carribean.
In 2009 the Government of the Republic of Colombia under the coordination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and supported by the Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation, (ACCION SOCIAL), and the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), started the Colombian Cooperation Strategy with the Caribbean Basin, initiative that ai…