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America & the Caribbean are exposed to multiple natural
threats among them: earthquakes, hurricanes, tropical storms,
and forest fires. A majority of the population lives in
poverty, with a great many living in extreme poverty conditions.
This situation implies food insecurity, housing vulnerability
to disasters and also poor or unsustainable exploitation
of natural resources. The region is also afflicted by many
problems associated with poverty. The region also faces
two other, equally serious problems: a high degree of economic
and political instability and civil strife, as in Colombia.
Natural disasters aggravate these already existing obstacles
to such an extent that development gains made during the
early 1990s in the region are being eroded. UNDP has offices
in 25 countries and supports 44 country programmes in Latin
America and the Caribbean. It has served the region's people
for over three decades, and has witnessed, indeed often
supported, transitions from dictatorship to democracy. Many
high-ranking officials in government or heading national
institutions have at one time or another benefited from
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an effort to be closer and provide better services to the 25 national
UNDP offices within the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region,
in 2002, the Disaster Reduction Unit of the BCPR established a
regional office based in the UNDP
Latin America and Caribbean Sub-regional Resource Facility (LAC
SURF office) in Panama City, Panama. The DRU-LAC provides
technical assistance and support to disaster reduction programmes
in the LAC UNDP Country Offices, with the principal responsibility
of organizing and implementing effective support for disaster
reduction and recovery activities at the national and regional
level. The team is responsible for the development, monitoring,
and review of programmes in capacity-strengthening, immediate
response, and recovery. In addition, DRU-LAC is responsible for:
the organization and implementation of sub-regional knowledge
networks; human resource and general training; and supervision
of actions that assure effective and efficient support to the
requirements of the Country Offices.
The DRU-LAC team based in Panama is currently
comprised of three staff members: a Regional
Disaster Reduction Advisor, a Programme
Associate, and an Administrative
Assistant; as well as a Disaster
Reduction Analyst. Since 1999, the Disaster Reduction Unit
has worked in close collaboration with the Regional
Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (RBLAC) in the
area of risk management. The DRU-LAC also collaborates with thirty
focal points for risk management in the UNDP Country Offices,
approximately 12 consultants, and a wider pool of professionals,
experts and technicians. DRU-LAC initiatives on the regional and
sub-regional level include: Sustainable Recovery Strategies in
the Caribbean, an Andean Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the
Central American Regional Programme for Risk Management, the Mitch+5
Regional Forum, Local Level Risk Management in the Andean region,
the Caribbean Risk Management Initiative, the LAC Disaster Sub-practice
Implementation, and the launching of Global Report: Reducing Disaster
Risk: A Challenge for Development.
DRU-LAC services
The DRU for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
provides assistance to Country Offices in the region in the following
areas:
- Support for the design, development and execution
of risk-reduction programmes and projects.
- Support to COs in their resource mobilization efforts.
- Assistance through DMTP (UN Disaster Management Training Program),
for human resource training on specific topics.
- Assistance to UN working teams in each country.
- Identification of opportunities and synergies with other thematic
areas, such as climate change adaptation, governance, and poverty.
- Technical backstopping and financial resources for emergency
situations.
- Support for the creation of national, regional and international
alliances, especially for sustainable recovery processes.
- Assistance to mainstream disaster reduction into Country Office
cooperation frameworks, programmes, and projects.
- Support in the preparation and development of sustainable recovery
frameworks and programmes.
- Consultancy and specialized human resources.
- Creation of networks to exchange experiences and best practices
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DRU
Progress Report Latin America and the Caribbean - September
2003 - PDF
Document - 16 pages - 227KB |
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Post-Disaster
Guidelines - Version 1 (February 2005) PDF
document (English
- 12 pages - 126 KB / Spanish
- 13 pages. - 125 KB) |
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Risk
Management in Colombia - PDF Document - (English
- 247KB / Spanish
- 266KB) |
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The
Manizales Declaration (Inter-American Conference
on Disaster Risk Reduction, Manizales, Colombia, 17-19 November
2004) - PDF document
(English
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Towards
the formulation of an Andean Strategy for disaster prevention
and response - PDF document (English
- 114KB / Spanish
- 157KB) |
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UNDP
Global Report: Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development
- PDF Document (English
- 185KB / Spanish
- 239KB) |
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| Events |
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| "Beyond
2004 Events, Lessons for the Caribbean Region"
Kingston, Jamaica - 24-26 April 2005 |
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| Inter-American
Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Manizales, Colombia, 17-19
November 2004 |
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The
Manizales Declaration (Inter-American Conference on Disaster
Risk Reduction, Manizales, Colombia, 17-19 December 2004
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| Regional
workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean in preparation for
the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, Quito, 16-17 September
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Preparatory
Regional Committee of Latin America and the Caribbean for
the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (English
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Annex1
and 2: Draft Programme Outcome Document
Tentatively Entitled "Building the Resilience of Nations
and Communities to Disasters: Elements for a Programme of
Action, 2005-2015" - (English
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Annex
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Annex
4: Second Meeting - PDF document (Spanish) |
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Annex
5: Work Agenda - PDF document (Spanish) |
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Annex
7: Workshop Results - PDF document (Spanish) |
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Regional
Mitch + 5 Forum, Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
9-11
December 2003
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The Mitch+5 Forum Report collects the different
contributions of Central American countries, international
organizations, NGOs, and other participating institutions,
and presents the main conclusions, recommendations, and
goals with respect to natural disaster reduction in the
region, aimed at updating the “Strategic Framework
for Vulnerability and Disaster Reduction in Central America”.
The forum was carried out during the month of December
of 2003, within the framework of the “Regional Programme
for Risk Management in Central America, CEPREDENAC-UNDP”
and has been one of the most important processes carried
out in follow-up to the regional policy on this issue.
Through this initiative, contributions have been made
to the strengthening of the established alliance between
CEPREDENAC and UNDP, the reinforcement of CEPREDENAC in
its role as coordinating center for the prevention and
natural disasters in the region, as well as our institutional
positioning on the theme, a fact that has been acknowledged
by such partners as the European Union. The process of
developing the forum and its results is today an action
framework for disaster risk reduction proposals in Central
America, as well as a reference for other regions.
For more information, please visit:·
- CEPREDENAC website: http://www.cepredenac.org/,
- Regional
Project “Risk Management in Central America”
(CEPREDENAC-UNDP) website: http://www.cepredenac.org/03_proye/pnud/index.htm
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Regional Mitch+5 Forum website: http://www.cepredenac.org/mitch.
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Mitch
+5 Regional Forum report: Where do we stand? Where are we
headed? - PDF document (English
- 105 pages - 1.2MB / Spanish
- 100 pages - 2 MB) |
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Annex A: Executive Summaries of National Reports
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Annex B: Narrative Reports by Thematic Component
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Forum
Associates - PDF
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Regional
Forum Mitch +5 - PDF
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