The Hummingbird Vol.6 No.4

New ECLAC policy brief prepares Caribbean countries for natural disasters

Through the publication of a new policy brief, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean has identified strengths and weaknesses in the DRM strategies of member states and how these can be mainstreamed in development plans and policies. The brief which is entitled `Mainstreaming disaster risk management (DRM) strategies in development instruments” and focuses on Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago’. It presents policy recommendations to strengthen the role of DRM and to improve the use of resource…

Caribbean Samoa Pathway prioritized

The Hummingbird Vol.6 No.3

Mainstreaming disaster risk management strategies in development instruments (II): policy briefs for Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago

This set of policy briefs has the objective of profiling disaster risk management (DRM) policies in five selected member States of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee: Barbados, Guyana, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. The present publication is the second that ECLAC has released on the mainstreaming of DRM strategies on this topic area. In 2017, a similar document was published for the following countries: The Bahamas, Belize, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. It also aims at analysing these policies and their interactions with broader development issues an…

Report of the expert group meeting on the enhancement of resilience to disasters and climate change in the Caribbean through the modernization of the energy sector

The Hummingbird Vol.6 No.2

The Hummingbird Vol.6 No.1

Addressing Disaster Risk at Local Level is Essential to Face Climate Change in Latin America

During a workshop organized by ECLAC in the framework of the EUROCLIMA + programme, experts from various institutions presented their work about disaster risk management and the analysis of climate change vulnerability in municipalities of Colombia.…

Abordar el riesgo de desastres a nivel local es fundamental para enfrentar el cambio climático en América Latina

En un taller organizado por la CEPAL en el marco del programa EUROCLIMA+, expertos de diversas instituciones presentaron sus trabajos para la gestión de riesgo de desastres y el análisis de la vulnerabilidad ante el cambio climático en los municipios de Colombia.…

An integrated approach to ICT

The Hummingbird Vol.5 No.12

Escazú Agreement is presented at Regional Seminar for Parliaments of the Caribbean

The Inter-Parliamentary Union and the National Assembly of Suriname organized a Regional Seminar on climate change and disaster risk reduction for Parliaments of the Caribbean on 5 and 6 November 2018 in Paramaribo, Suriname.…

El Acuerdo de Escazú se presenta en Seminario Regional para Parlamentarios del Caribe

La Unión Interparlamentaria y la Asamblea Nacional de Suriname organizaron un Seminario Regional sobre cambio climático y reducción del riesgo de desastres para Parlamentos del Caribe el 5 y 6 de noviembre de 2018 en Paramaribo, Suriname.…

ECLAC publishes disaster assessment exercise guide

ECLAC has been a pioneer in the field of disaster assessment and in the development and dissemination of the Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) methodology. Following several devastating hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters over the last few years in Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC has carried out several successful DaLA missions. Now ECLAC has introduced a Disaster Assessment Methodology Exercise Guide, developed for the DaLA trainings. The guide consists of 12 practical exercises about how to estimate the effects on several sectors including electricity, educatio…

The Hummingbird Vol.5 No.11

ECLAC ensures Caribbean countries are better equipped to deal with disasters

Three Caribbean countries will benefit from disaster training workshops over the last quarter of this year. Between October and December 2018, a team of experts from the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean, led by the Coordinator of the Sustainable Development and Disaster Unit, Dr. Omar Bello, will conduct Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) trainings in Anguilla, the Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos islands. The training courses are offered as a follow-up to the disaster assessment missions carried out last year to quan…

First ECLAC disaster training for Cuba targets environment experts

Environment experts, from Cuba are now better equipped to evaluate the impact of disasters using Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) methodology developed by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). This following a DaLA training workshop conducted by a team from ECLAC’s subregional headquarters for the Caribbean from 11 to 13 October 2018, in Havana. The course introduced the multisector approach of the DaLA Methodology to evaluate the impact of disaster using economic estimates of the damages, losses and additional costs and with a strong focus on the environmental…

Disaster assessment methodology exercise guide

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) pioneered not only disaster assessment but also compilation of the necessary methodology and courses on this methodology for member countries and international institutions. The experience of ECLAC in this area has been presented in three editions of the Handbook for Disaster Assessment, in 1991, 2003 and 2014. The last of these was prepared in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The present publication contains exercises developed for the economic, social and environmental disaster assessment metho…

Guía de ejercicios para la evaluación de desastres

La CEPAL ha sido pionera tanto en la evaluación de desastres como en la compilación de la metodología pertinente y en la realización de cursos sobre esta metodología que se imparten a los países miembros y a instituciones internacionales. La experiencia de la CEPAL en esta materia se ha plasmado en tres ediciones del Manual para la Evaluación de Desastres, en 1991, 2003 y 2014, esta última realizada en colaboración con la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS). El presente documento contiene ejercicios elaborados para los cursos sobre metodología de evaluación económica, social y ambienta…