(18 March 2010) "Recent natural catastrophes such as hurricanes and earthquakes have only aggravated an already critical financial and economic scenario in a number of Caribbean nations. Disaster assessment is vital in the process of building back better," said ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena in Grenada.
In a speech during the 23rd Session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC) taking place this week in St. George's, Bárcena highlighted ECLAC's decades-long history of disaster assessment in the region, the most recent of which is the one currently underway in H…
(18 de marzo, 2010) "Las recientes catástrofes naturales como los huracanes y terremotos sólo han agravado el ya crítico escenario financiero y económico en algunos países del Caribe. La evaluación de desastres es vital en el proceso de reconstruir mejor", dijo la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena, en Granada.
En una presentación durante la 23º Sesión del Comité de Desarrollo y Cooperación del Caribe (CDCC) que se realiza esta semana en St. George's, Bárcena destacó la experiencia de décadas de la CEPAL en la evaluación de desastres en la región, siendo la más reciente la que ac…
At the thirteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the CDCC held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 23-24 August 2007, delegates agreed to the establishment of a working group to explore ways of improving the effectiveness, visibility and relevance of the CDCC.
The need for the establishment of the working group arose out of the recognition that the CDCC has been handicapped by the following: (a) a loss of its original vision and mission as a result of its changing operational context; (b) institutional overload in the regional institutional architecture as a result of the deepenin…