ECLAC Caribbean will deliver a disaster assessment methodology training to the benefit of the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA).…
ECLAC and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) have convened a four-day training course in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, to improve the ability of policymakers from eight Caribbean countries to prepare for disasters and to assess their effects and impacts.…
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.…
En el marco de la Tercera Reunión de Representantes FOLARED…
Resultados Al terminar el proyecto se espera que las ciudades seleccionadas cuenten con un plan para mejorar la gestión del riesgo de desastres y que los gobiernos locales hayan generado estrategias para reducir su vulnerabilidad ante amenazas naturales y técnicas.…
“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)…
ANTECEDENTES En el camino hacia el logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de la Agenda 2030, la vulnerabilidad y exposición a los desastres que enfrentan muchos países de nuestra región se presentan como un nodo crítico para alcanzar el desarrollo. Los desastres están implicando catástrofes nacionales y globales teniendo impactos sobre cualquier progreso logrado. Más del 60% de los países de América Latina y el Caribe presentan un riesgo medio a muy elevado ante los desastres ocasionados por fenómenos naturales. Los efectos del cambio climático en la región han incrementado los fenóme…
This workshop is the second of a two-part series and is designed for technical officers responsible for GIS and application developers supporting DRM.…
Organized by Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the General Bureau of Statistics (GBS) of Suriname, in the framework of the Development Account 12 project.…
Organized by Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science Technology, in the framework of the Development Account 12 project.…
Organized by Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science Technology, in the framework of the Development Account 12 project.…
Organized by Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Department of the Environment, Ministry of Health, Wellness & The Environment and Statistic Division of Antigua and Barbuda (Ministry of Finance and Corporate Governance) in the framework of the Development Account 12 project.…
Organized by Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Department of the Environment, Ministry of Health, Wellness & The Environment and Statistic Division of Antigua and Barbuda (Ministry of Finance and Corporate Governance) in the framework of the Development Account 12 project.…
Organized by Statistics Division and the Caribbean Subregional Headquarte of ECLAC. This is a Side-event of the 52nd session of the United Nations Statistical Commission…
Organized by Statistics Division and the Caribbean Subregional Headquarte of ECLAC. This is a Side-event of the 52nd session of the United Nations Statistical Commission…
Este taller es organizado por la División de Estadísticas, en colaboración con la División de Desarrollo Sostenible y Asentamientos Humanos, ambas de la CEPAL…
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.…
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.…
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.…