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The Plan of Action of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), agreed upon at the 5th Summit of the Heads of State and/or Government of the Association of Caribbean States, addresses five main themes: (i) sustainable tourism; (ii) trade development and external economic relations; (iii) transport; (iv) disaster risk reduction; and (v) education, cultu…
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This document is a joint research report that was presented on the 5th of December during COP20 and on the 9th of December at the People's Summit in Lima, Peru. It argues that, for the construction of new governance under difficult conditions due to the drought and the impacts of climate change in Central America, it is urgent not only to allocate finan…
Santa Ana es la segunda ciudad de El Salvador y necesita urgentemente prepararse para hacer frente a desastres y adaptarse a los retos que plantean la variabilidad y el cambio climático. Según el censo del 2015, tiene una población de más de 265.000 personas y está creciendo cuatro veces más rápido que otras ciudades intermedias del país. El crecimient…
En entrevistas exclusivas para Milenio, ministros de Panamá, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras y Colombia hablan sobre cómo sus países aminorar los efectos del Cambio Climático. Leidi Urbina, enlace técnico del Consejo Agropecuario de Belize, dijo que "vine a la reunión porque el Cambio Climático ya es un fenómeno mundial y todos tenemos que pon…
By Lieutenant Commander Oliver-Leighton Barrett, US Navy (Ret) The dominant media narrative that explains the reasons for current Central American migration to the United States centers on the dismal economic and security conditions across source states: Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. The ‘failing economies’ and ‘corrupt governments’ na…
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In July 2008, the people of Melara, Palmera and Cerco de Piedra woke up in the middle of the night, facing one of their worst nightmares. The Huiza River had overflowed, the bridge was destroyed, their houses were being rapidly covered by water and mud, and their lives were at serious risk. They didn't know what to do. Thanks to the common sense of a f…
Según reporta ABC, la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) detalló en un comunicado que "los especialistas pretenden elaborar protocolos de actuación común para evitar los riesgos y minimizar los daños ocasionados al patrimonio cultural como consecuencia de desastres naturales". La AECID auspicia en San Salvador el I…
El economista salvadoreño Juan José Daboub analiza en detalle el impacto de los desastres naturales ocasionados y sostiene que luego de atender el desastre debe pensarse en el futuro para minimizar los riesgos según El Salvador. "Si no se siguen haciendo las cosas que se tienen que hacer cuando se vuelvan a repetir (estos fenómenos) vamos a seguir vivie…
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Since Hurricane Mitch struck in 1998, El Salvador has made significant progress in building local and national humanitarian capacity and leadership. This case study uses an “outcome harvesting” methodology to explore how it happened, and puts forward recommendations for the future.
A declaration of the Leaders of APEC, gathered in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, October 24-26, 2010, during the "XII Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno del Mecanismo de Dialogo y Concertacion de Tuxtla", in which they "emphasise the importance of the Hyogo Framework for Action aimed to raise awareness, mobilise action and build global, regional, n…
El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras —los países del norte de Centroamérica (NCA)— y México son de nuevo objeto de intenso interés internacional, un interés que la subregión no concitaba desde el ciclo de conflictos armados internos y la firma de acuerdos de paz hace casi 25 años. Si bien en ese entonces la tarea fundamental de la subregión era la construc…
Diversas autoridades se reunieron en El Salvador para el lanzamiento del proyecto de Euroclima+ para reducir el riesgo de desastres por inundaciones y sequías en Centroamérica, apoyado por la UE y por España. El pasado mes de julio se presentó en El Salvador el proyecto "Aumento de Capacidades para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres por Inu…
This paper gives an insight into the World Food Programme's work in addressing weather-related hunger by helping communities prepare for and recover from major climate- and weather-related natural disasters, especially those that are already vulnerable and suffering from hunger, undernutrition and food insecurity. It describes actions that can be taken…
In June 2020, Tropical Storm Amanda descended on El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador. Gale-force winds and torrential rains triggered more than 150 landslides and 20 major floods, tearing apart roads, electrical lines and almost 30,000 homes.Coffee farmer Hector Velasquez, whose land sits on the exposed slopes of San Salvador Volcano, overlooking the ci…
The Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador is a good illustration of this. Located along the Pacific coast in what’s known as the Central American Dry Corridor, Bajo Lempa features everything from hillsides covered in coffee plantations, to flood-prone coastal plains where family farms border industrial sugarcane operations, to mangrove forests that compete w…

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