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El manual se estructura en nueve apartados en los que se identifican en los objetivos, los fundamentos teóricos y la metodología empleada y se describen las buenas prácticas de identificación del riesgo y cómo reducirlo: del 1 al 3, destinados a los objetivos, a los fundamentos teóricos, y la metodología empleada; del 4 al 7, a describir la…
Un comunicado de la salvadoreña Dirección General de Protección Civil (DGPC) señaló que con la Sistema Mesoamericano de Información se tiene la capacidad de 'almacenar, procesar y diseminar información regional territorial para la reducción del riesgo de desastres naturales' según Terra.
In some areas around Acajutla, El Salvador, mangrove forests have been severely reduced—replaced by fill and the simple homes of some of the country's poorest residents.
We are sitting in a dusty park at the edge of an estuary in Barra de Santiago in the Ahuachapán Department of El Salvador. On the far side, a bank of mangroves marches into the water,…
Yesterday, Vice President Harris announced that the United States is providing $310 million in increased assistance to the Northern Triangle, including $255 million in assistance to meet immediate and urgent humanitarian needs for people in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, refugees, other displaced people, and vulnerable migrants in the region. The…
Por Edgardo Ayala
La ciudad de San Salvador se levantó a los pies del volcán del mismo nombre, y el riesgo de deslizamientos que causan tragedias está siempre presente, como el ocurrido en septiembre de 1982, en el que murieron unas 500 personas en la capital de El Salvador. Convertirla en una ciudad esponja es la nueva iniciativa para reducir el impac…
Five years of recurring droughts have destroyed maize and bean harvests, leaving poor subsistence farmers in the so-called Dry Corridor that runs through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua struggling to feed their families
By Anastasia Moloney
BOGOTA — Poor harvests and prolonged drought are driving rural families in parts of Central…
By Jessica Troni
For World Cities Day on 31st October, we follow the story of how the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is working with San Salvador city and its surrounding coffee farms to create a ‘natural’ defence against floods.
In June 2020, Tropical Storm Amanda descended on El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador. Gale-forc…
Engaging in local, national, and global advocacy is vital to improving the lives of the most vulnerable. The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance funds strategic advocacy programming that complements our resilience-building interventions. Our latest learning report, produced by ISET-International in collaboration with several Alliance partners, features exa…
This factsheet presents findings from an analysis of 14 Latin American countries (Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay) to document their National Public Investment Systems' (SNIP) response to the pandemic, as well as to draw recommendations and les…
The strenghtening of the Campaign 'Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready!' in El Salvador is an activity for the promotion, reflection and training aspects of disaster risk reduction in urban areas that are part of the objectives of the Global Campaign, in close coordination with the Presidential Secretariat on Vulnerability Affairs and Gen…
PANAMA, 7 May 2013 - A senior official from the Philippines town of San Francisco, which won the 2011 Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction, has spent the last five days journeying across Central America to exchange information with local authorities on best practice to make urban settings safer from natural hazards.
Alfredo Arquillano, the Vice-M…
This book covers 6 main themes (language; maths; science, health and environment; social studies; art; sport). No mention is made of disaster risk reduction.
El Foro Consultivo es un espacio de consulta y diálogo, no constituye una estructura orgánica ni sustituye a organismos que ya existen como parte del Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana.
La coordinación y dirección del Foro Consultivo estará bajo la responsabilidad de la Presidencia Pro Tempore del CEPREDENAC, con apoyo de su Secretaria Ejecutiva…
La CRGR y Organismos del SICA, Agencias de Cooperación y Actores relevantes (Autoridades, Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil, Líderes y Lideresas municipales y comunitarios), se reunen para compartir visiones y procesos en la región centroamericana.
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…