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Displaying 75 of about 874 resultsThis 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…
Assistance to improve local agricultural emergency preparedness - Final project report:
This report addresses the vulnerability of the Caribbean region to hydro-meteorological hazards such as hurricanes, floods, drought, high magnitude rainfall and related hazards such landslides and the related extreme vulnerability of the agricultural sector. It rep…
"The moment calls for a robust response to protect economic growth from the risks of climate change and secure continued progress," says Marshall Island finance minister
By Megan Rowling
BARCELONA - As droughts and floods cut crop harvests and storms tear up buildings and power lines, countries vulnerable to climate change - from Bangladesh to Kenya a…
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. CCRIF SPC and the World Bank are pleased to announce that on July 1, the Facility issued the Caribbean Oceans and Aquaculture Sustainability FaciliTy (COAST) fisheries parametric insurance policy to two of its member governments – Grenada and Saint Lucia. The COAST insurance policies provide coverage for fisherfolk and…
♪ Water come inna mi room
Huh huh!
Mi sweep out some with mi broom
Di likkle dog laugh to see such fun
And di dish run away with the spoon ♪
It was catchy, it was humorous, it was enjoyed by persons as far as Nicaragua, however, it spoke to a very serious subject. It was a song about Hurricane Gilbert and the devastation wrought upon Jamaica in 19…
More than 200 community members in Dominica received emergency preparedness training from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on the eve of start of the Atlantic hurricane season. The training activities include topics such as first aid, fire safety, community emergency response training (CERT), gender-based violence, psyc…
Por Patricia Grogg
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Existe una probabilidad moderada de que se forme un huracán en el mar Caribe (46 por ciento) y el peligro de que Cuba sea afectada por al menos uno de estos fenómenos atmosféricos. “El pronóstico es un basamento estadístico, nadie sabe dónde va a surgir un ciclón“, alertó, sin embargo, la meteoróloga Miriam Teresita Llanes.
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By Melanius Alphonse
Following hurricanes Erika and Maria’s devastation to Dominica, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit became a beacon of hope and rose to the challenge not only to ensure that more than 5,000 Dominicans will be able to relocate into new homes, but he also embarked on an ambitious goal to ensure that Dominica becomes the world’s first cl…
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…
This report on adaptation to climate variability and change draws together the conclusions of a series of comparative case studies undertaken for the Area-Based Development and Climate Change (ABDCC) project of the Social Development Department of the World Bank. The report contributes to a better understanding of pro-poor adaptation by addressing the g…
This fact sheet addresses the question of how laws can work for communities to prevent disasters. It describes the community-level action and the way to improve how country laws deal with disaster risk reduction (DRR), presenting some of the best practices (from Nepal, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Philippines and Sweden) that States and National Societie…
This document provides brief summary of disaster risk reduction activities carried out by the Dominican Disaster Mitigation Committee in 1997.
Cuba's early warning approach holds lessons for other countries, write disaster risk reduction specialists Veronica F. Grasso and José Rubiera.
Advances in the early warning of natural hazards could bring great benefits to countries and communities. But early warning needs early action: if political will and coordination are lacking, the advantages co…
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…
Despite Dominican Republic's serious exposition to the impacts of climate change, such as the salinisation of half of its aquifers and more intense natural catastrophes like hurricanes and unusual rainfall patterns, the Caribbean island nation has difficulties overcoming in climate change adaptation policies as risk perception among Dominicans is low. A…