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Nineteen climate vulnerable countries have signed the Climate Vulnerable Forum 2011 Dhaka Declaration that underscores the need of focusing on adaptation in particular in the short term in order to minimize growing and widespread harm...

This poster describes the setting for the Caribbean drought of 2009-10 and its impacts. It provides lessons learned that include a need for improvements in rainfall forecasting and monitoring and a coodinated effort between multiple stakeholder to

The Climate Investment Funds, a partnership of five multilateral development banks, approved grants and near-zero-interest loans to support Cambodia, Mozambique, Nepal, St. Lucia, and Zambia in their efforts toward national-level climate resilience report the World Bank...

This 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

Brief overview of the disaster risk management (DRM) strides made in several Latin America and the Caribbean Region countries to date. It includes a set of country notes organised by country priority levels determined by the GFDRR.

A review of the one day disaster preparedness and first aid training programme after Hurricane Tomas

This report describes a disaster preparedness project started in 2009 that was carried out by the Order of St John local organizations in seven countries

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

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...