Source: European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Country: Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, World
This publication features 50 good practices, tools and initiatives that were supported under the 2015-2016 DIPECHO Action Plan. These contribute to the implementation of the Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) Strategy 2014-2024 and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. All initiatives in the publication are associated to one of the following four thematic focus areas:
- Early Warning Systems;
- Communicating Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR);
- Information & Knowledge Management;
- Institutionalization of DRR.
This publication facilitates the sharing of DRR information to enable joint planning and programming.
The publication was prepared in the context of the CDM signature event: Annual Achievements and Priorities on Disaster Risk Reduction which took please from 23 to 24 November 2016 in Barbados.