Natural
Hazards-Climate Change Adaptation
For
over a quarter of a century, the OAS has supported policies and projects
in the most vulnerable countries of the hemisphere to identifying and
implementing cost-effective measures that identify communities, public
infrastructure such as hospitals, schools and ports most vulnerable to
natural disasters, and support risk mitigation measures that increase
the resilience of communities to the impacts of natural disasters. The
Department also works on policies and programs in the Caribbean, with
CARICOM and other partners, helping countries and regional
institutions in their efforts to cope with the adverse effects of
climate change through several regional and national projects.
Ongoing
Projects
and Initiatives
Caribbean Hazard Mitigation Capacity Building Programme (CHAMP)
Grenada Hurricane Resilent Home Reconstruction
Program
G(HR)2
Haiti Building Standards Development Project
(HBS)
Inter-American
Network for Disaster Mitigation
(IANDM)
Events and News
On
Better Terms: A Glance at Key Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction
Concepts.
This pocket-sized booklet clarifies a few terms that both
the climate change and disaster risk reduction disciplines use but often
use differently, so as to avoid possible sources of confusion. This
edition is a product of the Working Group on Climate Change and Disaster
Risk Reduction of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction (IATF/DR)
led by UNDP, IDS and the ISDR secretariat.
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On February
27th, 2006, the Government of Canada transferred to the OAS CAD$2
million to support sustainable development efforts in the
hemisphere. Of that total, approx. CAD$750,000 is directed to the DSD to support natural disaster risk reduction measures.
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Natural Hazards and
Climate Change Adaptation: Programmatic Overview
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Amb. Michael King of
Barbados discusses key development, conservation and environmental
protection challenges facing the Caribbean, and the need to
strengthen linkages among national conservation strategies, country
environmental programs, institutional
capacity building, and emerging opportunities in environmental
leadership related to the region’s development agenda. Keynote
Featured Publications and
Information Sources
The
ProVention Consortium, a global partnership
dedicated to disaster reduction, launches a new
website with information on its activities, partners
and resources for organizations and practitioners
active in disaster risk management.
The OAS
partners with the
IMF,
WB
and the
IADB
prepared a
working paper "The Economics of Disaster
Mitigation in the Caribbean: Quantifying
Benefits and Costs of Mitigating Natural Hazard
Losses" |
Working Paper
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Executive Summary
More
information on Disaster Reduction and Risk
Management...
Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations
and communities to disasters
Policy Series:
Managing Natural Hazards Risk: Issues and Challenges.
Completed Projects
Caribbean Hazard
Mitigation Projects (CHMP)
(completed)
Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project
(completed)
Natural Hazards Project (completed)
Post-Georges Disaster Mitigation in Antigua/Barbuda and St. Kitts/Nevis (completed)
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