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Author(s) Lopez Medina, Javier; Williams Rudolph; Perez Gonzalez, Victor Manuel; Arreaga, Jairo; Arrendondo, Karen; Caceres, Oscar; Lopez Ramos, Ana Deisy; Martinez, Mauricio; Guzman, Joaquin; Von Beck, Enrique Anaya; Montoya Blanco, Isaias; Martinez España, Silvia

Community-centered flood early warning systems in the Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic

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Organization of American States
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Towards a regional platform for their financial and institutional sustainability:

This report describes the background for the flood early warning systems (Flood EWS) in the Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic, commenced in 1995, and highlights the need for a harmonized methodology for designing and implementing the systems. It recommends the constructing (and/ or strengthening) of a national system for risk management that incorporates all relevant actors and promoting appropriate national legislation reform which it states will significantly improve the sustainability of community-centred flood EWS.

The Central American Small Valley’s Flood Alert and Vulnerability Reduction Program (SVP) which began in 1995, is a project of the Department of Sustainable Development (OAS/DSD) with support from the European Community Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO), the Republic of Ireland and the Republic of Turkey. SVP was implemented in over 20 valleys in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

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ISBN/ISSN/DOI
9780827055087
Number of pages
12 p.
Publication year
2010

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