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Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

 

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Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

Our regional office provides support to actors throughout the region, including North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean, fostering a culture of disaster prevention and building disaster resilient nations and communities.

VIII Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean (RP23)

https://rp-americas.undrr.org/regionalplatform

 

Regional Assessment Report (RAR 2021)

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DRR and COVID -19 in the Americas and the Caribbean

DRR and COVID -19 in the Americas and the Caribbean
DRR and COVID -19 in the Americas and the Caribbean

 


 

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Latin American and Caribbean Network of Women for Disaster Risk Reduction

Red de América Latina y el Caribe de mujeres para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres

Upcoming Events

Caribbean regional workshop on integrated disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation planning

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Disasters Are Not Natural - Art Exhibition

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Cities becoming more resilient in Americas and the Caribbean

These statistics show live data about municipalities in this region that have joined the Making Cities Resilient 2030 initiative. The villages, towns, and cities have made a commitment to move along the resilience roadmap to better protect their citizens. Dozens of cities in Brazil alone have joined, covering a large part of the country's population.

 

 

Contact us

UNDRR Americas and the Caribbean
Calle Luis Bonilla, 112
City of Knowledge
Clayton
Ancon
0843-03441
Panama City, Panama

Phone: +507 317 1120

Countries

Country Sendai Focal Point National Platform Country profile on PreventionWeb
Antigua and Barbuda National Office of Disaster Services Country profile
Argentina Comisión Cascos Blancos, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Ministerio de Seguridad Nacional .Secretaria de Protección Civil , Comisión Cascos Blancos, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Secretaria de Articulaci Country profile
Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency (Bahamas) Country profile
Barbados Department of Emergency Management Country profile
Belize National Emergency Management Organization Country profile
Bolivia Viceministerio de Defensa Civil, Viceministerio de Defensa Civil Country profile
Brazil Secretaria Nacional de Defesa Civil, Ministério da Integração Nacional, Secretaria Nacional de Prote, Ministerio de Integración Nacional, Secretaria Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Civil (SEDEC) Country profile
Canada Public Safety Canada, Public Safety Canada Canada National Platform Country profile
Chile Oficina Nacional de Emergencia, Oficina Nacional de Emergencia Chile National Platform Country profile
Colombia Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres Country profile
Costa Rica Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias, Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias Country profile
Cuba Estado Mayor Nacional de la Defensa Civil de Cuba Country profile
Dominica Office of Disaster Management Country profile
Dominican Republic Presidencia de la Rep, Defensa civil Dominican Republic National Platform Country profile
Ecuador Secretaría de Gestión de Riesgos, Servicio Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos y Emergencias Country profile
El Salvador Dirección General de Protección Civil, Prevención y Mitigación de Desastres, Dirección General de Protección Civil, Prevención y Mitigación de Desastres Country profile
Grenada National Disaster Management Agency Country profile
Guatemala Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres, Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres Country profile
Guyana Civil Defense Commission Country profile
Haiti Direction de la Protection Civile (Haiti) Country profile
Honduras Comisión Permanente de Contingencias (COPECO) Country profile
Jamaica Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management Country profile
Mexico Coordinacion Nacional de Proteccion Civil Country profile
Nicaragua Sistema Nacional para la Prevención, Mitigación y Atención de Desastres, Sistema Nacional para la Prevención, Mitigación y Atención de Desastres Nicaragua National Platform Country profile
Panama Sistema Nacional de Proteccion Civil (Panama), Sistema Nacional de Proteccion Civil (Panama) Country profile
Paraguay Ministro de la Secretar, Ministro de la Secretar Paraguay National Platform Country profile
Peru Secretaría de Gestión Pública de la Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros, Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros Peru National Platform Country profile
Saint Kitts and Nevis National Emergency Management Agency (Saint Kitts and Nevis), National Emergency Management Agency (Saint Kitts and Nevis) Country profile
Saint Lucia National Emergency Management Organisation, National Emergency Management Organisation Country profile
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines National Emergency Management Office (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) Country profile
Suriname National Coordination Center For Disaster Relief Country profile
Trinidad and Tobago Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management, the, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) Country profile
United States of America Department of the Interior Country profile
Uruguay Sistema Nacional de Emergencias, Sistema Nacional de Emergencias Country profile
Venezuela, Bolivarian Rep of Viceministerio de Gesti Country profile

News and events

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Press Releases

ROAMC RAR launch: Reducing Risk is the Key to a Resilient Future

Recording of the session (in spanish): HERE The COVID-19 pandemic, its impact and causality, has provided an opportunity to reflect on risk management and its importance in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It is undoubtedly a historic juncture
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Press Releases

Support to SMES moves forward the private sector in Trinidad and Tobago

The American Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad and Tobago (AMCHAM T&T), through the Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilience Societies (ARISE) initiative, is engaging the private sector to create more risk-resilient enterprises so that business can
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Regional Review on School Safety in the context of Systemic Risk: The Virtual Caribbean Safe School Initiative Pre-Ministerial Forum
Press Releases

School safety is the starting point: Regional Review on School Safety in the context of Systemic Risk - the Virtual Caribbean Safe School Initiative Pre-Ministerial Forum

Regional review on school safety in the context of systemic risk: the virtual Caribbean Safe School Initiative Pre-Ministerial forum will take place virtually from March 15 to 26 march.
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Updates

Challenges in Cumulative Risks

The threats of volcanic eruptions in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and in Martinique once again bring to light the need for prevention and inter-sectoral cooperation to reduce the risk of disasters.
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Tsunami Ladies cook up a resilient future for vulnerable villages

Resilience can be created anywhere - even at the kitchen table. For six women from Chile and Japan who survived the massive tsunamis that devastated their villages, food played a vital role in helping their communities rebuild and recover. In the
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Good governance guarantees sustainable development

Nothing undermines development more than disasters. The lack of strategies and planning when faced with an event of natural, human or biological origin could mean inevitable decline in a society’s efforts to promote development and growth. It is therefore
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Features

The times call for governance

Disaster risk governance is entering a critical period. Not only has it been suddenly and overwhelmingly put to the test by the COVID-19 pandemic, but this is also the cutoff year for Target E of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030
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Grenada's Chamber of Industry and Commerce joins ARISE
Press Releases

ARISE expands in the Caribbean: Grenada's Chamber of Industry and Commerce joins the private sector network

The Island nation of Grenada is now the eighth country in the Caribbean to join ARISE, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s (UNDRR) Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies. In the Caribbean, global warming has increased
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Building resilience through youth leadership

The future is in good hands. The young people who participated in the “Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Youth Forum”, held on August 12th in the framework of International Youth Day, showed great interest in becoming even more involved in
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Features

Invest more in predicting the future to be better prepared, say experts

Investing more in technology is essential to better forecast the impact of environmental, technological and biological hazards and help prevent disasters, said regional experts. More funding needs to be poured into technology projects which have a focus
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Publications

Documents and publications

Finding the missing thread: The inclusion of a human rights-based approach in tackling climate change mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk reduction

This paper argues that a human rights-based approach (HRBA), i.e. participation in political life, consultation of affected groups in decision-making processes, access to justice, due process, transparency and accountability, provides excellent tools towards a real positive change in disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation and mitigation. The publication analyses case studies in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia and Nepal.
Documents and publications
Working papers

Communicability between the national, state and municipal governments in the integration of the principles of the Hyogo Framework for Action to reduce risks and disasters

The purpose of this paper is to examine the civil defense communication process through which national and regional agencies share principles, guidelines and good Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) actions in the medium and small municipalities where disasters

Documents and publications

Pathways of transformation: Disaster Risk Management to enhance development goals

This document asks if transformation pathways for disaster risk management can be observed, and if so then how and why they unfold as observed. The study uses a qualititative analysis to establish an empirical basis for policy development that can more

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Detailed building stock at regional scale in three size categories of settlements for 18 countries worldwide

This document presents a project which aims at improving the knowledge of the distribution of building type for 18 countries where more detailed information, than that previously gathered, became available. Secondly, the project attempts to solve the

Documents and publications

Selection of local case studies with fully probabilistic hazard and risk assessments

This background paper presents a selection of fully probabilistic hazard and risk assessments conducted at local (city) level in Colombia where the same methodology and model used for the GAR13 and GAR15 have been followed; that is, representing hazard

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Update on the probabilistic modelling of natural risks at global level: Global risk model

This study presents a risk assessment carried out in Colombia, Belize and Spain with an open model that can be used by every government or user: the CAPRA (Comprehensive Approach to Probabilistic Risk Assessment) platform. This platform is open access

Documents and publications

Global volcanic hazards and risk: Summary background paper

This report contains a synopsis of volcanism from a hazard and risk perspective and highlights the wide range of hazards posed by volcanoes and describes their diverse impacts on communities This summary report complements a longer technical background

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Reports

United States of America: Climate change and extreme weather adaptation options for transportation assets

Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area contains valuable transportation and community assets for the region, including major connecting bridges, freeways, a port and airport, homes and businesses. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Bay Area

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United Nations city disaster resilience scorecards: USA, Chile, Angola

Stamford (USA), Puerto Montt (Chile) and Luanda (Angola) cities held workshops with multiple stakeholders to complete the United Nations City Disaster Resilience Scorecard. The workshops were notable in identifying both technical requirements, and also

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Reports

FEMA Building Code Adoption Losses Avoided Studies

To demonstrate risk reduction from disaster‐resistant building codes, FEMA assigned AECOM to develop practical losses avoided studies (LAS) using HAZUS, FEMA’s popular GIS‐based community loss modeling platform. HAZUS quantifies impacts to structures

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