Fact sheet about the economic and natural disasters situation in Haiti (in Spanish)…
“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)…
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.…
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.…
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 and regional government officials to plan, prepare and respond to such events. This month, a team from the ECLAC Caribbean office travelled to the San Martin and Piura regions to provide training, aimed at strengthening the capacity of CENEPRED and regional government officials to assess damages and losses caused by disasters. Over 70 officers fr…
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 February in Panama City, Panama. The training will inform participants of the complexities of a disaster, how different sectors might be impacted, and how to use the damage and loss assessment methodology affectively in a timely manner.…
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…
En el marco de la Tercera Reunión de Representantes FOLARED…
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 working language of the meeting will be English.…
Esta reunión se realiza en el marco de la VI Plataforma Regional para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (RRD) en las Américas, que se realiza en Cartagena, Colombia, entre el 20 y el 22 de Junio de 2018.…
Este seminario se realiza en el marco de una colaboración entre la División de Estadísticas de la CEPAL y la Iniciativa Global para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres (GIZ/BMZ) para apoyar a los países miembros del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Indicadores de Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres de la CEA a fortalecer las capacidades estadísticas en materia de medición de los eventos extremos, desastres y reducción del riesgo de desastres.…
ECLAC Caribbean will deliver a disaster assessment methodology training to the benefit of the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA).…
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…
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.…