Belize: assessment of the damage caused by hurricane Keith, 2000: implications for economic, social and environmental development

Natural disasters workshops

ECLAC Conducts Training Workshops on Assessing the Impacts of Natural Disasters in the Region

Los efectos socioeconómicos de las inundaciones y deslizamientos en Venezuela en 1999

Antecedentes La magnitud de los daños ocasionados por las lluvias que desde el mes de noviembre de 1999 azotaron a Venezuela en las zonas costeras e importantes centros urbanos de Venezuela, en particular los estados Vargas, Miranda y Falcón aún no han sido totalmente comprendidos en su impacto global y en sus implicaciones de corto, mediano y largo plazo. El 16 de diciembre de 1999 la Asamblea Constituyente de Venezuela declaró el Estado de Emergencia para el Distrito Federal de Caracas y otros ocho de los estados del país. El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores inició campañas de reco…

CDCC - Twenty-Five Years of Cooperation and Development: 1975-2000

Disaster assessment in the subregion: ECLAC's methodology

Daños causados por el movimiento telúrico en México y sus repercusiones sobre la economía del país = Dommages causés par le tremblement de terre au Mexique et ses repercussions sur l'économie nationale = Damage caused by the Mexican earthquake...

Presenta una caracterizacion del desastre, y acciones emprendidas por las autoridades; estimaciones sobre la magnitud y alcance de los danos; un analisis de las probables repercusiones sobre las tendencias que ya marcaban la evolucion de la economia mexicana; y algunas apreciaciones sobre la forma en que la comunidad internacional puede apoyar a Mexico en las tareas de reconstruccion.…

Daños causados por el movimiento telúrico en México y sus repercusiones sobre la economía del país = Dommages causés par le tremblement de terre au Mexique et ses repercussions sur l'économie nationale = Damage caused by the Mexican earthquake...

Presenta una caracterizacion del desastre, y acciones emprendidas por las autoridades; estimaciones sobre la magnitud y alcance de los danos; un analisis de las probables repercusiones sobre las tendencias que ya marcaban la evolucion de la economia mexicana; y algunas apreciaciones sobre la forma en que la comunidad internacional puede apoyar a Mexico en las tareas de reconstruccion.…

Fact sheet about the economic and natural disasters situation in Haiti (in Spanish)

Fact sheet about the economic and natural disasters situation in Haiti (in Spanish)…

Primer curso internacional La Economía del Cambio Climático e Impactos Sociales: Métodos y Técnicas de Análisis

El cambio climático es, sin duda, uno de los desafíos más importantes que enfrenta la humanidad durante este siglo. La magnitud de sus impactos en las actividades económicas y sociales, en los ecosistemas y sus orígenes globales lo convierten en un tema de alcance planetario donde su posible solución requiere la participación organizada del conjunto de los gobiernos nacionales, de la sociedad civil y de diversas instituciones y organismos internacionales.…

Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) training session - Lima, Peru

These sessions are being conducted as part of a series of ECLAC training courses that will strengthen the ability of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess damage and losses caused by natural disasters. Considering the fact that Latin America and the Caribbean ranks as one of the regions most affected by disasters, this training will help provide countries with the knowledge to determine their own recovery and reconstruction path, and to incorporate future measures to reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience. This particular session will inform participants on the complex…

Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) training session - Cusco, Peru

These sessions are being conducted as part of a series of ECLAC training courses that will strengthen the ability of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to assess damage and losses caused by natural disasters. Considering the fact that Latin America and the Caribbean ranks as one of the regions most affected by disasters, this training will help provide countries with the knowledge to determine their own recovery and reconstruction path, and to incorporate future measures to reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience. This particular session will inform participants on the complex…

Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) training session - San Jose, Costa Rica

The training on the Disaster Assessment Methodology was requested by the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policy (MIDEPLAN), as part of the ministry’s efforts to improve disaster risk management and reduce risk in the country. The course is imparted during three days, and combines expositions of the methodology with practical cases to allow participants to apply the different concepts and methods. The training is designed for policy makers and professionals involved directly with disaster risk management and risk reduction. Additionally, and since the methodology has a multisectoral …

Seventeenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development Cooperation Committee

“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)…

XVII Reunión del Comité de Monitoreo del Comité de Desarrollo y Cooperación del Caribe

Regional implementation meeting on access rights and sustainable development in the Caribbean region and workshop on climate change, natural disasters and coastal vulnerability

Reunión sobre la implementación de los derechos de acceso y desarrollo sostenible en el Caribe y taller sobre cambio climático, desastres naturales y vulnerabilidad costera

The working language of the meeting will be English.…

Reunião sobre a implementação dos direitos de acesso e desenvolvimento sustentável no Caribe e oficina sobre mudança climática, desastres naturais e vulnerabilidade costeira

Disaster assessment methodology training

ECLAC Caribbean will deliver a disaster assessment methodology training to the benefit of the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA).…

Planning for Disaster Risk Management & Disaster Assessment Methodology in the context of the 2030 Development Agenda and the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals

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.…