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Caribbean SIDS relevant climate change and disasters indicators for evidence-based policies: Final regional workshop of the project 2023

10 - 12 May 2023 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Institutionalizing sound evidence-based sustainable development policies in the Caribbean requires quality, timely, and accessible climate change and disasters indicators that are harmonized and comparable across countries.…

Technical Issues towards effective Applications of Geospatial Technologies and Data in support of Disaster Risk Management (DRM)

6 - 8 September 2021 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This workshop is the second of a two-part series and is designed for technical officers responsible for GIS and application developers supporting DRM.…

Policy Issues towards effective Applications of Geospatial Technologies and Data in Disaster Risk Management (DRM)

30 August 2021, 05:00 - 08:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

This workshop is the first of a two-part series and is designed for senior technical officers having responsibilities in selecting and using technologies to support DRM.…

Financing and Planning for Disaster Risk Management in Caribbean Small Islands Developing States

17 November 2020, 10:00 - 13:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Caribbean is considered one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Indeed, the financial impact of disasters such as hurricanes on Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is invariably several times greater than their gross domestic product (GDP). Governments of the subregion therefore must continue to seek innovative approaches to mobilize both domestic and external sources to finance their sustainable development and resilience efforts.…

Expert Group Meeting: A Gender Perspective on Environmental Migration and Disaster Displacement in the Caribbean

5 November 2020, 06:30 - 09:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

As a subregion extremely vulnerable to extreme weather events and the adverse effects of climate change, the Caribbean is particularly susceptible to disaster displacement and climate migration.…

Disaster assessment methodology training

21 - 23 June 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

ECLAC Caribbean will deliver a disaster assessment methodology training to the benefit of the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA).…

Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Building

14 - 16 March 2017 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The training course will focus on strengthening the capacity of member States in the assessment of the effects and impacts of disasters in the Caribbean in light of the 2030 development instruments.…

Seventeenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development Cooperation Committee

26 June 2015, 05:30 - 15:00 | Event (Monitoring committee)

“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, said via video conference in opening the 17th meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC)…