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La eficiencia y resultados de trabajo del Sistema de Alerta Temprana (SAT) de Cuba sitúan a la Isla en el rol de país asesor en el proyecto regional "Fortalecimiento del Sistema de Alerta Temprana para una reducción más eficiente del riesgo de desastres

Facing cyclone threats, many citizens of Cuba's most extreme Eastern point, Punta de Maisí, are relocating. However, Maisí is an illustration of the long-term challenges of coastal management, ranging from the demolition of poorly located homes and facilities, to changing the economic alternatives in those communities that depend on fishing.

After becoming blind through ocular disease, retired geologist Tichico Joel Cobian Mena puts his knowledge to good use by working to include vulnerable people in community plans for disaster risk reduction.

Workers from the Ñico Lopez Refinery in Havana haven taken part in a simulation exercise to evaluate responses before possible spills of liquid chloride. The objectives of the exercise were to train members to protect the population and the damage and needs assessments groups.

A new review of the record-breaking 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Seaon will be launched at the Americas Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in June.

Despite a massive humanitarian effort over the past six months in the Eastern Caribbean, Cuba and Haiti, there is still much work to be done to rehabilitate water and sanitation and other infrastructure damaged by powerful hurricanes Irma and Maria, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Tuesday.

Stronger cooperation in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation and mitigation are among the major decisions of the Sixth CARICOM-Cuba Summit. To underlines this, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the Cuban Civil Defence Agency at the Summit.

This case study explores how high hurricane and flooding risk and incomplete knowledge about disaster risk reduction (DRR) in communities led Cuba to incorporate DRR into the national curriculum and develop community DRR programmes with children.