Crisis Prevention and Recovery

Latin America and the Caribbean

Food crisis: UNDP requests USD 2.3 million as part the Guatemala Appeal

Crisis in Haiti

Victims in Haiti

UNDP in action: Cash for work programme in Haiti
After the strongest earthquake in Haiti in more than 200 years the Government is reporting that more than 212,000 have died and nearly 300,000 people have been injured. The number of displaced people reaches up to one million.

Update on immediate crisis response in Haiti: SURGE
The first SURGE Adviser was on the ground 48 hours after the disaster struck Haiti.

For more information on UNDP's efforts in Haiti, click here.

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Voices from countries in crisis

Disaster Risk Reduction in Honduras—Juan Carlos Benítez, Programme Specialist in UNDP Honduras, discusses disaster risk reduction initiatives in the country (Spanish – streaming audio or mp3)

Conflict Prevention in Ecuador - Michael Brown, Peace and Development Advisor, discusses how UNDP is engaged in the Northern Border Zone of Ecuador (streaming audion or mp3)

Youth and violence in El Salvador
Marcela Smutt, Coordinator of the Governance Unit in UNDP El Salvador discusses UNDP’s work with youth in the country (Spanish – streaming audio or mp3)

To hear other audio clips, please click here

Recovery in the Dominican Republic

5 March 2010 - The six-month Guatemala Food Insecurity and Acute Malnutrition Appeal was launched today by OCHA in Geneva, Switzerland. Guatemala is currently in the grip of a protracted food insecurity crisis, which has particularly affected the approximately 2.7 million people living in the country’s so-called Dry Corridor (and neighbouring departments). Read more...

To read the Appeal, click here.