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Displaying 45 of about 242 resultsThis briefing paper addresses the governance of funding for climate change adaptation in developing countries at the global and country level in order for the needs of the most vulnerable to be met. It particularly considers country-level ownership of adaptation finance and advocates for climate funding to prioritize and clearly provide resource allocat…
Good practice in action:
This publication outlines good practices, providing practical case studies of successful disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation and mitigation projects implemented by ACT members or their partners around the world. The guide includes 14 case studies, which describe local projects that range from renewable energy…
Bogota – Central America’s years of neglect of agriculture, poor water management and lack of planning to help farmers cope with climate change are worsening food shortages caused by a widespread drought, aid agencies say.
At least 2.5 million people in four countries – Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras - are struggling to feed themselves…
2.2 million people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua have lost their crops due to rainfall and drought; 1.4 million urgently need food assistance
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that prolonged droughts and heavy rain have destroyed more than half of the maize and…
By Nelson Renteria
Ishuatan, El Salvador – In this small town, deep in the hills of El Salvador, farmers have become increasingly worried over the last five years as they see their crops of corn, beans and vegetables affected by heavy storms, droughts and hot spells.
To ease the problem, they are going back to school, to learn how to use indigenous ag…
Towards a regional platform for their financial and institutional sustainability:
This report describes the background for the flood early warning systems (Flood EWS) in the Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic, commenced in 1995, and highlights the need for a harmonized methodology for designing and implementing the systems. It reco…
On October 25, 1998, Hurricane Mitch, the fourth most intense Atlantic Ocean hurricane on record, slammed into the Central American coastline. This report compiled by the USGS compiles a wide variety of data and information in El Salvador including detailed maps, aerial photographs of key areas, damage inventories, and continued assessment of potential…
This document is the result of a participatory process developed from April to December 2003, through national workshops and forums of analysis and proposals in the different countries of the Central American region. These processes ended with the Mitch+5 Regional Forum, which took place in December in the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The forum brough…
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…
El Salvador’s schools and universities have begun teaching students how to deal with the risks of extreme weather and climate change in an effort to make communities more resilient to disasters, reports Nelson Rentería for AlertNet. "It seems very good to me, because we will learn something new. Not only will we be taught that two plus two is four, but…
A database launched yesterday by Central American officials is intended to predict natural hazards and reduce the potential impact of climate change, reports AFP. 'The challenge of climate change is how we prepare the region to better address this problem to reduce the risks,' said El Salvador's Environmental Minister Herman Rosa Chavez.
El avance en un modelo de gestión estratégica para riesgos de desastres es el principal resultado de la colaboración de científicos cubanos con países de Centroamérica como Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala, informó Prensa Latina.
Dijo el doctor Fernando Guasch Hechavarría que se ha ido transformando el esquema emergente, que iba del antes,…
San Vicente, El Salvador - Five international UN Volunteers from Brazil are in El Salvador working on the implementation of the 'Escuelas Vivas' (Living Schools) project in the country. The project is an initiative of the Government of Brazil, as part of its international actions to fight hunger, and the Government of El Salvador, in collaboration with…
In the last 500 years, Central America has suffered more than 50 large-scale tsunamis that have affected the Pacific and Caribbean coasts and left behind a legacy of death and destruction. The increase of coastal population in recent decades led to higher total exposure to tsunamis, and economic and institutional dysfunctions have added vulnerability, l…
The report presents the main findings from case studies about resilience assessments that were carried out in five countries through workshops: El Salvador, Bolivia, Haiti, Palestine, and Cambodia. It capitalizes on local knowledge and experience and provides important insights not only on how those most at risk build resilience, but also on how they st…