El Salvador

Presentan guía de innovación del sector privado para reducción del riesgo de desastres en El Salvador
The guide was commissioned by UNDRR and developed in collaboration between the TRANSFORM project of the University of Waterloo, Canada, with ARISE networks in Central America and twenty companies in the region who provided input to the document.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Hurricane Mitch at peak intensity on October 26, 1998 at 19:15 UTC. At the time, it was a Category 5 hurricane. (Credit: NOAA/NASA Satellite image)
The Americas Regional Platform had a wide-ranging discussion on the development of disaster risk reduction in Central America since Hurricane Mitch twenty years ago.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
A flooded street in Honda, Colombia after heavy rains caused the Magdelena river to overflow its banks (Flickr: Policía Nacional de los colombianos)
Rivers run through many cities in Latin America that have joined UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign, and management of these rivers brought three of those cities together last month to carry out a reality check.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, addresses the Central American forum. (Photo: Presidency of El Salvador)
Disaster risk reduction needs to be a key component of development in order to secure sustainable results, UNISDR’s head Ms. Margareta Wahlström told a key meeting in Central America, one the most climate-vulnerable regions in the world.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

The policy brief informs local policymakers about the current trends and activities taking place in selected cities that have signed up to the Making Cities Resilient Campaign since 2010. The Summary draws largely on the findings of the Making Cities

Mayor Al Alquillano (fifth from left) of San Francisco, Philippines with participants during the first day of his tour across Central America.
A senior official from the Philippines town of San Francisco, which won the 2011 Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction, has spent the last five days journeying across Central America to exchange information with local authorities on best practice to make urban settings safer from natural hazards.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

This regional report presents local and regional activities in Latin America and the Caribbean related to disaster reduction and sustainable mountain development as part of the 2002 UNISDR campaign.

This monthly newsletter highlights UNISDR activities around the world. This issue reports on: (i) the progresses on the "Making Cities Resilient" Campaign and the release of the Handbook for local government leaders: how to make cities more resilient; (ii

Honduras newspaper warning of Hurricane Felix in 2007.
Weak disaster preparedness and recovery planning in two of the world's most disaster-prone countries were discussed over four days this week by government officials, mayors, local government representatives and international risk management experts in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, as they seek to develop national disaster recovery plans for Honduras and neighboring El Salvador.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
The UN office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR, and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability have completed a four-month pilot test of the Local Government Self-Assessment Tool (LG-SAT) designed to help disaster risk reduction efforts in over 1,000 cities and local governments that have signed up to UNISDR's global "Making Cities Resilient" Campaign. LG-SAT has been made possible with funding from the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid branch, ECHO.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

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