Floods and droughts are the most frequent disasters occurring in Uruguay. Most are derived from the effects of the El Niño South Oscillation, which is also affecting parts of Brazil and Argentina. The institutional capacities to handle disasters as development issues are quite limited. There is a lack of understanding of the information process, data gathering, and climate forecasting by the productive sector, as well as inadequate channels of communication between public and private stakeholders in order to establish risk-management policies.
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