5th Caribbean conference on comprehensive disaster management
Background
The Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management is celebrating five (5) years as the signature disaster management event in the region. This year the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), in association with its partners, and in collaboration with the Office for Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPEM), Jamaica, will host the conference under the theme “CDM: Strengthening Partnerships for Resilience”
This conference is the Caribbean region’s annual signature disaster management forum, which provides the platform for reflection, dialogue on initiatives and issues to advance the CDM agenda and measuring progress in the region within the context of the Enhanced CDM Strategy and Programming Framework 2007-2012. CDM is the regional contribution to the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015, a blue print for global action in disaster risk reduction.
In that regard, the CDM Conference is a regional event of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Global Platform and is structured to promote good practice, share ongoing research, chart the way forward for the advancement of CDM in the Caribbean and to provide a unique opportunity for facilitating networking among disaster management actors.
Topics and special sessions (by invitation) include:
Equipping Partnerships for Resilience: Professional Development and Partner Consultation - business continuity management for small businesses
- MHEWS programme
- climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the national agenda
- disaster mitigation in engineering and geology
Building Partnerships for Resilience: Mainstreaming Climate Change into Disaster Risk Reduction
-Key social and economic sectors: South-South experience sharing
- Case studies in education, from civil society, and on governance mechanisms to deliver partnerships from regions
Fostering Partnerships for Resilience: Linkages for Emergency Response Coordination
- lessons learnt from recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile
- urban risk in the Caribbean
Enabling Partnerships for Resilience: Supporting Infrastructure and Youth Empowerment
- CDM monitoring and evaluation (MER) framework; policy; model legislation; reporting
- Youth groups
Reflecting on Partnerships for Resilience: Moving Forward
- Caribbean HFA report