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This regional assessment document discusses ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) and its linkages with biodiversity in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. It highlights key opportunities to catalyse actions for Eco-DRR that embrace the importance

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As a country prone to natural hazards, Cuba has begun to incorporate lessons and exercises on disaster risk reduction into its school curriculum. Children are leading the way for a society rooted in preparedness and resilience.
United Nations Children's Fund - The Americas and Caribbean Regional Office
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Hurricane Matthew reduced much of the Cuban town of Baracoa to rubble, whipping up giant waves that demolished cement buildings and winds that tore off roofs, but there's one thing it didn't do: take lives. Largely thanks to a rigorous evacuation scheme, Cuba managed to avoid the fate of neighboring Haiti, where nearly 900 deaths have been reported so far.
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
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La resiliencia urbana como la capacidad que tienen las ciudades para resisitir, absorver, adaptarse y recuperarse ante desastres y situaciones adversas hace alrededor de 15 años. Como resultado y para exponer las buenas prácticas en el campo, en estos días se realiza en La Habana, el taller final del Proyecto de Resiliencia Urbana.
Diario Granma
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Cerca de seis mil familias jobabenses reciben por estos días de forma gratuita envases para almacenar agua como parte de uno de los programas de ayuda de Naciones Unidas, dirigido a minimizar los efectos de la sequía que afectó a casi la mitad de la población local. Se trata de más de nueve mil pomos plásticos de 10 litros, que fueron repartidos.
Radio Cabaniguán
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This report reviews information on drought characteristics and management in the Caribbean region, identifies the relevant national and regional agencies and focal points involved in drought management, and brings together information on their work at

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Los desastres naturales son de los principales factores que obstaculizan el desarrollo de Cuba, razón por la que la gestión de riesgos acerca de estos se considera un asunto de importancia estratégica. El primer taller científico nacional sobre la gestión de riesgo se desarrolló del 1 al 4 de junio en la universidad José Martí de la central provincia de Sancti Spíritus.
Prensa Latina, Agencia Informativa Latinoamericana, S. A.
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Table of the World Food Programme and Movement for Peace Drought Preparedness projects in Cuba 2016.

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