The National Emergency Management Organization of Belize is participating in a two-day workshop on risk assessment, formally known as CAPRA, or Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment, an initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank.
“I would like to see us have a programme in place that allows us to punch certain information into a computer and find out what the more vulnerable areas are. These would be areas where maximum flooding would occur so that we can look into that and say if a storm comes here we anticipate flooding of ten feet here and it will affect ten thousand people. I want us to have an idea of the extent of damage we will experience,” said Melvin Hulse, Minister of National Emergency Management of Belize.
Ending tomorrow evening in Belmopan, the workshop aims to provide information and tools for disaster risk management that will assist in reducing the vulnerability nations to natural hazards and disasters.