The Hummingbird Vol. 3 No. 4

The Hummingbird Vol. 3 No. 3

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

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…

Assessment of the effects of disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1972-2010

The purpose of this work is to review ECLAC’s experience in assessing the economic and social impact of disasters. Toward that end, the database established according to assessment reports is described and the patterns of sectoral damage and losses from different types of events are defined.…

The Hummingbird Vol. 2 No. 12

Water resource management climate change and sustainable development in the Caribbean

The Caribbean and the post-2015 development agenda

This paper will contend that the post-2015 development agenda presents a major opportunity for Caribbean countries to reverse decades of lagging economic performance and make the transition to balanced, holistic, and people-centred growth and development. The MDGs, while valuable in promoting gains in poverty reduction, health, education, nutrition, and maternal well-being were not tailored to the growth and development needs of the region. This can now be changed by a post-2015 development agenda which goes beyond improving the welfare of citizens by meeting basic needs and enhancing access t…

Regional implementation meeting on access rights and sustainable development in the Caribbean. Workshop on enhancing access to information on climate change, natural disasters and coastal vulnerability: leaving no one behind

This document summarizes the regional implementation meeting on access rights and sustainable development in the Caribbean and the workshop on enhancing access to information on climate change, natural disasters and coastal vulnerability: leaving no one behind held in Rodney’s Bay, Saint Lucia, from 24 to 26 August 2015.…

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

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…

Países del Caribe identifican desafíos y oportunidades para avanzar en los derechos de acceso en materias ambientales

Representantes de los países del Caribe se reúnen este 24 y 25 de agosto en Santa Lucía para identificar oportunidades de acción conjunta en el camino para la implementación cabal de los derechos de acceso a la información, participación y justicia ambientales, consagrados en el Principio 10 de la Declaración de la Cumbre de Río de 1992. La reunión es organizada por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA), la Organización de Estados del Caribe Oriental (OECS, según sus siglas en inglés) y el World Resource…

The Hummingbird Vol.2 No.8

ECLAC Executive Secretary opens High Level Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago

“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

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 …

Una aproximación bayesiana a la medición de la vulnerabilidad poblacional a desastres naturales: estudio de caso para el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia

En este artículo se explica el empleo de un enfoque bayesiano para medir la vulnerabilidad de una población a desastres naturales utilizando información climática, censal y administrativa. La aproximación bayesiana permite clasificar las regiones de acuerdo con su vulnerabilidad e identificar los factores físicos y socioeconómicos que hacen que una población sea más o menos vulnerable a una amenaza específica. Estos resultados son útiles para formular políticas de prevención de riesgos focalizadas en las regiones más vulnerables y en función de las características socioeconómicas más important…

The Hummingbird Vol.2 No.4

La estimación de los efectos de los desastres en América Latina, 1972-2010

Los objetivos de este trabajo son revisar la experiencia de CEPAL en la estimación de impacto económico y social de los desastres naturales. Para ello se describe la base de datos originada a partir de los reportes de estimación y se determinan patrones de daños y pérdidas sectoriales de los diversos tipos de eventos.…

Assessment of strategies for linking the damage and loss assessment methodology to the post-disaster needs assessment

This report was prepared at the request of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with support from the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) to assess strategies for linking the ECLAC Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) Methology to the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA). Each metholodolgy was individually outlined and their use in the Caribbean context was explored in detail to set the framework or lens through which their linking would be viewed. Other methologies that are used within the recovery process were identified and outli…

Review of ECLAC damage and loss assessments in the Caribbean

Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin American and Caribbean countries are exposed to extreme natural events that can unleash disasters, depending on the vulnerabilities of each. The sectors most at risk are those with high social vulnerability.…

Desastres en América Latina y el Caribe

Los países de América Latina y el Caribe están expuestos a eventos naturales extremos que pueden desencadenar desastres, según las condiciones de vulnerabilidad de cada uno. Los sectores de mayor riesgo son aquellos con alta vulnerabilidad social.…