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This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications

Eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have agreed to tighten up on school safety while also integrating disaster risk reduction into the school curriculum, following high-level talks on education in Panama City.

La gestión de riesgos de desastres está entre los temas transversales de la propuesta de política pública para el desarrollo social 2010-2010.

La propuesta plantea las siguientes políticas priorizadas:

1. Aumentar el conocimiento, análisis y evaluación

La Secretaria de Emergencia Nacional realizó el lanzamiento del plan de Reducción de Riesgos y Preparativos para Desastres para el departamento de Ñeembucú, segun UPI...

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

Con el objetivo de analizar temas relacionados con la reducción del riesgo de desastres, el ministro del Ambiente de Paraguay, Óscar Rivas, participa junto con cerca de 300 expertos de más de 30 países y territorios de la región, de una reunión internacional en Nuevo Vallarta, estado mexicano de Nayarit...

The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2009-11 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.

Meeting in Argentina at the 13th Meeting of the Environmental Commission early March, the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO) approved the 'Buenos Aires Declaration,' emphasizing the need for concrete measures for the mitigation of risk and adaptation to climate change...