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United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

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Esta guía contiene las instrucciones para la realización, de forma periódica y sistemática, de ejercicios de evacuación en simulacros y simulaciones de las condiciones de emergencia de tipo diverso en las instalaciones de los Centros Educativos.

La guía

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Centro de Capacitación y Prevención para el Manejo de Emergencias y Medio Ambiente: S.O.S Vidas Perú
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El objetivo general del catálogo de herramientas y recursos de información sobre Preparativos para Desastres en Educación es apoyar la promoción y el fortalecimiento de una cultura de gestión del riesgo proporcionado herramientas y recursos de información

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Regional Disaster Information Center Latin America and the Caribbean
European Commission
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This document reports on experiences and lessons learned at the national and local level of the Andean and Central American countries surrounding concepts, policies, strategies and tools, capabilities and needs, networking, education, risk management and

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas
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This communiqué reaffirms the commitment of the participants to the guiding principles of DRR and climate change adaptation and strongly encourages the consideration of these priorities defined by the institutions and governments of the Americas.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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This evaluation, solicited by the Government of Chile, demonstrates the political will of the Chilean State to advance the issue of disaster risk reduction in addition to mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in the management of public policies - one of

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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This paper highlights some aspects of a meeting with subregional, regional and international organizations specializing in disaster risk reduction held in Panama City, on 13 and 14 December 2010 on: (i) the institutional framework for disaster risk

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Latin American and Caribbean Economic System
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This paper is a regional policy and institutional mapping of the practical integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in Asia and Pacific region. It presents: (i) an overview of past, ongoing, and planned

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Latin American and Caribbean Economic System
Documents and publications

In Spanish:

Este documento contiene los resultados de una evaluación sobre las vulnerabilidades de la República Dominicana ante un fenómeno natural y cuál es el nivel de preparación con que se cuenta para poder disminuir sus efectos o responder con

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
European Union
Dominican Republic - government
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This issue includes:

Editorial -

Voices & Ideas:
- Chosica: Prevention Bears Fruit
- Crisis or Mitigation?: The role of relationships between institutions and communities in disaster recovery assistance
- Contingency plans for coping with disasters: A

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Documents and publications

This publication presents a selection of articles carried out within the framework of the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Urban Risk Thematic Platform in particular. The thirteen articles included here reflect diverse

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

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