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ECLAC team conducts post-Matthew disaster assessment in Bahamas

8 November 2016 | News

In the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, a team of experts in damage and loss assessment from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean flew to the Bahamas to assess the damages caused on the ground. The mission, which took place from 23-29 October 2016, was funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and was undertaken in collaboration with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO). The ECLAC team and their counterparts visited the areas of Andros, Berry…

Following Hurricane Earl, ECLAC sets the groundwork for disaster assessment in Belize

13 September 2016 | News

A team lead by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean carried out a mission to hurricane-struck Belize, to provide support to the Government in its effort to undertake comprehensive assessment of the impact of Hurricane Earl which hit in early August 2016, and to assist in the formulation of recommendations for recovery and reconstruction. The team included experts from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO). Hur…

Brazil to benefit from ECLAC disaster assessment training

1 March 2016 | News

A public financial institution from Brazil, Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES) will soon benefit from the established disaster assessment expertise of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean, as a team from the Sustainable Development and Disaster Unit (SDDU) visits from 1-4 March to present ECLAC’s disaster assessment training package to officials of the Brazilian Development Bank. The initiative follows other similar efforts to strengthen the ability of countries in Latin America and the Ca…

ECLAC and UNISDR join forces to bolster disaster assessment capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean

16 February 2016 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is partnering with the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) in its effort to strengthen the ability of countries across Latin America and the Caribbean to manage the impacts of disasters, in the context of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. The first collaboration between ECLAC and UNISDR will be through a two-day training targeting members of the United Nations Development Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNDG LAC), and will take place on 18-19 Feb…

Caribbean experiences build Latin American expertise, as ECLAC wraps up 9-month training series in Peru

5 February 2016 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean has applied its experience in the Caribbean towards building the disaster assessment capacity in Peru’s National Center for Estimation, Prevention and Disaster Risk Reduction (CENEPRED). Since May 2015, ECLAC Caribbean has supported the efforts of the CENEPRED to become a forerunner in the field of disaster risk reduction, since Peru remains one of the most vulnerable countries across Latin America to disasters. It is estimated that over the past 15 years there have been 59 disa…

The Caribbean experience helps strengthen Peruvian disaster capacity

29 October 2015 | News

Peru is among the countries of Latin America that is most vulnerable to natural disasters. The establishment of the National Center for Disaster Assessment, Prevention and Risk Reduction (CENEPRED) is among the most significant efforts undertaken in recent times by the Peruvian government to comprehensively address the vulnerability of its population. Over the past few months, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), with its well-established experience in dealing with natural disasters, has helped strengthen the capacity of CENEPRED officers, and of national …

ECLAC Caribbean talks to Trinidad students about disasters

12 October 2015 | News

A team from the ECLAC Port of Spain office visited the Tranquility Government Primary School in Port of Spain and the Diamond Vale Government Primary School in Diego Martin on 30 September – 01 October, to share information on how the students can better prepare themselves and their families to prevent, recognize the signs, and deal with disasters. The team delivered two awareness raising sessions to almost 200 fourth and fifth standard students from the two schools, as part of the organisation’s aim to promote disaster assessment awareness from an early age across the regio…

Trinidad and Tobago agencies receive training in disaster assessment

9 October 2015 | News

ECLAC Caribbean recognizes that there are different sectors involved in disaster assessment, and this training is part of the continuing series of ECLAC training sessions aimed at strengthening the ability of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess damage and loss caused by disasters. Participants who benefitted from this particular e training were not only from disaster preparedness agencies, but also from the health, agriculture, public utilities, telecommunications, education, planning and tourism sectors. An important aspect of this disaster assessment package for Trinidad w…

Caribbean Countries Identify Challenges and Opportunities for Making Progress on Access Rights in Environmental Matters

25 August 2015 | News

Representatives from Caribbean countries are meeting on August 24-25 in Saint Lucia to identify opportunities for collective action on the path towards the full implementation of access rights to information, public participation and justice in environmental matters, enshrined in Principle 10 of the Declaration of the 1992 Rio Summit. The meeting is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the World Resources Institute (WRI). Participants include rep…

ECLAC disaster assessment package targets policy makers and children in Costa Rica

31 July 2015 | News

Policy makers and children in Costa Rica will soon be better prepared to prevent and deal with disasters, as ECLAC Caribbean brings its disaster assessment package to the country. Officials from ECLAC Caribbean will visit Costa Rica from 3-5 August, at the invitation of the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy (MIDEPLAN) to deliver training, this time not to emergency responders but instead to government policy makers, with emphasis on disaster assessment, pre-disaster preparation, prevention and incorporation of risk reduction policies. The training will benefit the new environme…

ECLAC Executive Secretary opens High Level Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago

26 June 2015 | News

“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) on 26 June, during which Ministers and high-level Government representatives from the…

ECLAC Trains Officials of the Region in Assessment of Disasters

19 June 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), through its Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, is strengthening the capacity of specialists and officials of Latin American and Caribbean countries to assess the damages and losses caused by disasters, with activities in Peru, Costa Rica and Saint Vicent and The Granadines. In the case of Peru, the training session in Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) was conducted in Cusco from 16 to 19 June at the request of the National Center for Estimation, Prevention and Disaster Risk Reduction. This course served as the first …

New series of disaster assessment training sessions set to kick-off in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

18 June 2015 | News

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is the first of seven Caribbean countries to receive training on Post Disaster Needs Assessment from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean. The training will take place from 22nd to 25th June 2015, and will bring together expertise of the Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) methodology of ECLAC Caribbean and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of Trinidad and Tobago. Other countries to soon benefit from these training sessions are Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Gr…

ECLAC helps Peruvian officials better respond to disasters

16 June 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional office for the Caribbean is strengthening the capacity of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess the damages and losses caused by disasters. This is through a Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) training session that ECLAC Caribbean will conduct in Cusco, Peru from 16th to 19th June 2015. The training, which has been convened at the request of the National Center for Estimation, Prevention and Disaster Risk Reduction in Peru, will benefit sectoral specialists, as well as experts from institutions invo…

ECLAC’s new Disaster Unit to provide assistance to entire Latin America and Caribbean region

11 March 2015 | News

The newly configured Sustainable Development and Disaster Unit at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean is gearing-up to provide unprecedented assistance in disaster assessment to Caribbean states and to all countries across Latin America. Through this Unit, ECLAC will give significantly strengthened leadership to the entire region in the area of disaster assessment and post disaster needs analysis, by providing technical expertise to disaster-affected and disaster-prone countries. Specific initiatives will include t…

ECLAC’s DALA Methodology being used as a guide for Trinidad and Tobago

21 November 2014 | News

The Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) methodology is helping to estimate the impacts of rain-related disasters that affected several communities along the eastern coast of the Trinidad over the past week. Developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC), the DaLA methodology is being used as a guide by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) of Trinidad and Tobago to assess the economic consequences of the recent disasters at the community and household level. Dr Steven Ramroop of the ODPM says that “the orga…

ECLAC Promotes Disaster Risk Management in the Caribbean in Association with ESCAP

2 December 2013 | News

The Third Regional Strategy on Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM 3) will be officially launched at the 8th Annual Conference on the subject, which will be held in Jamaica from 2 to 6 December 2013. The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and its partners are behind this initiative. The ECLAC Subregional headquarters for the Caribbean in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, has been working closely with the region's countries, in association with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). In September this year,…

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