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Displaying 75 of about 242 resultsIn 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…
El objetivo general de esta conferencia es facilitar un espacio de diálogo para actores relevantes del desarrollo sostenible de la región, en el que se presenten enfoques y experiencias en Gestión Integral del Riesgo, Cambio Climático y Mecanismos Financieros en América Central.
El camino inicial para reducir el riesgo sísmico es conocer la condición de las construcciones.
¿Cómo evaluamos la seguridad sísmica de gran cantidad de construcciones existentes? Se cuenta con varias prescripciones en reglamentos para la evaluación de edificaciones individuales. Pero es necesario avanzar en la evaluación de determinados edificios a ni…
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La presente legislación establece la prevención y contrarrestar los efectos causados por lo fenómenos tales como: terremotos, tormentas tropicales, huracanes, inundaciones, sequías. Por lo anterior se crea el Fondo de Protección Civil, Prevención y Mitigación de Desastres.
Project addresses catastrophic impacts of climate change by promoting improved land-use practices, while addressing poverty, hunger and migration.
The Government of El Salvador is stepping up efforts to protect vulnerable citizens from the clear and present risks of climate change.
With support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),…
Technical Notes IDB-TN-169:
This technical note presents the Indicators of Disaster Risk and Risk Management updated for: Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago. The Risk Indicators represent a contribution…
This document presents an overview on the impact of the Dry Corridor phenomenon in Central America, and the work the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - in collaboration with its partners - is doing to support countries to increase disaster resilience of households, communities and institutions.
Central America is one of the regions most vulner…
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Esta guía ha sido desarrollada como parte de la iniciativa DIPECHO IX “Proyecto regional: Protegiendo a grupos vulnerables de Centroamérica a través de la incorporación de principios humanitarios de protección en preparativos y respuesta”, con el objeto de brindar orientación y sugerir modalidades de acción para implementar de forma práctic…
This publication explores the different shocks and challenges affecting agriculture livelihoods, such as natural hazards, food chain and protracted crises. The report recmmoends the adoption of a multi-hazard and cross-sectoral approach, arguing that increasing the resilience of agriculture livelihoods to threats and crises can only be ac…
This document provides an estimate of the cost of the 2014 drought to economic sectors of considerable importance in the region, which are significantly affected by decreased precipitation. These include the agricultural sector, which generates a significant portion of production in rural areas, and in particular provides employment to the most economic…
The intention of this map is to give a quick overview for decision makers on a supra-regional or national/subnational level about the risk exposure of the population in landslide prone areas. The classification used here runs from yellow (few people exposed) to red (many people exposed). The class width of the yellow-to-red division has been chosen to f…
The intention of this map is to give a quick overview for decision makers on national or sub-national level about the risk exposure of the population in inundation prone areas.
The classification used here runs from yellow (few people exposed) to red (many people exposed). The class width of the yellow-to-red division has been chosen to facilitate the…
The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2009-11 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.
The progress report assesses current national strategic priorities with regard to the implementation of disaster risk reduction actions, and establi…
La movilidad humana asociada a, o derivada de los desastres y efectos adversos del cambio climático viene recibiendo un interés importante en los últimos años en Centroamérica. Este informe contribuye a un mayor conocimiento de la evidencia sobre la vinculación entre movilidad humana, medio ambiente, desastres y cambio climático mediante un mapeo realiz…
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Entre los días 13 y 14 de enero del 2014 se llevó a cabo la X Conferencia Municipal sobre Gestión de Riesgos, donde las autoridades locales que se dieron cita se comprometieron a una serie de acuerdos que fueron recogidos en la Declaratoria de Santa Tecla. Entre los acuerdos firmados podemos destacar el impulso y la creación de la Escuela…