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UNDP sponsors disaster risk reduction and gender workshop in Belize

The Women’s Department in collaboration with UNDP hosted a workshop this week on gender mainstreaming for disaster preparedness, for operational focal points, as a means of strengthening Belize’s capacity for comprehensive disaster management...
Caribbean News Now, Caribbean News Foundation, Inc.
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UNESCO: Full-scale simulated tsunami alert in Caribbean

Following the devastating tsunami that struck Japan, 33 countries are preparing to participate on 23 March in the first full-scale simulated tsunami alert exercise in the Caribbean. The goal is to test the Tsunami and other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions...
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
Policies and plans

Saint-Marc Plan of Action

AEC/2009/DRR.17/INF.011:

This plan aims at guiding the work of the Association of Caribbean States for the next five years, as the body for consultation, cooperation and concerted action for disaster risk reduction in the Greater Caribbean.

It was

Documents and publications

CDEMA: Regional progress report on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (2009-2011)

The preparation of this Regional Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2009-11 Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.

The progress report

Documents and publications

Quantification and magnitude of losses and damages resulting from the impacts of climate change: modelling the transformational impacts and costs of sea level rise in the Caribbean

This report provides an overview for all CARICOM member states of the risks from climate change and includes a section on the common threats of climate change for Pacific island countries. It focuses on: (i) climate change projections for the Caribbean

Documents and publications

Community-centered flood early warning systems in the Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic

Towards a regional platform for their financial and institutional sustainability:

This report describes the background for the flood early warning systems (Flood EWS) in the Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic, commenced in 1995, and

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New cartographic basis for risk assessment in Latin America

Recently released high-quality, up-to-date vector-based maps of Central and South America give insurance and reinsurance companies a precise, reliable cartographic basis that can associate actual and modelled risks with the objects to be insured...
Directions Magazine, Directions Media
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NSF awards grant for a Caribbean GPS natural hazards observational network

NSF has awarded a grant for the development of a tectonic plate-scale integrated geodetic and atmospheric/regional climate observational system to increase understanding and assess seismic and other natural hazards in the Caribbean and Central America...
National Science Foundation

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