Provides access to seasonal hurricane activity forecasts and related reports from Professor William Gray et al of Colorado State University.
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Information and communication technologies have always been recognized as an important dimension in disaster management in the Caribbean. Initially much of its use was centered on emergency communications technology. However, the rapid evolvement of information technologies and tools and the immediacy of information this has afforded has revealed the importance of ICT in providing a seamless link across the phases of the disaster cycle: preparedness, mitigation, relief, response and reconstruction.Click here for more information
The Sumatran catastrophe 2004 demonstrated the potential destructive power of tsunamis and has in the process qualified the risk exposure that a region faces without a suitable risk reduction program. Following the catastrophe, CARICOM鈥檚 Community Council determined that its regional disaster management institution 鈥� the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) 鈥� should support regional efforts to establish a TCHWS on behalf of the CARICOM Member States.
The Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange (EPIX) provides links to a large number of sites covering a wide variety of disaster management topics.
The Government of Austria is providing support to complement ongoing or planned disaster loss reduction capacity building among CDERA Participating States. It will facilitate national programming that seeks to harness interventions and promote collaboration amongst partners for enhanced earthquake contingency planning.Read more here
Since 1994, the European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO) has been financing disaster prevention, mitigation and preparedness operations throughout the developing world, in response to the requests of NGOs, international organisations and universities/research institutes.
Initially, the Learning Centre was developed by the SIDS-Caribbean project, the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), the Internet project of the Regional Association IV (RA4) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the meteorological service of Netherlands Antilles & Aruba. Nevertheless, the Learning Centre is aimed to be a joint effort of all National Meteorological and Hydrological Service in the Caribbean, National Focal Points of UNFCCC as well as other regional institutes and projects.
The Capacity Building for Programming in Comprehensive Disaster Management Project (CAP) is designed to respond to the expressed need of countries for direct support in developing and implementing a national Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) Programme. Click here for more information
The Canada Caribbean Disaster Risk Management (CCDRM) Fund is an important component of CIDA鈥檚 regional Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Program (CDRMP) which is administered from the Canadian High Commission in 杏吧性吧. The CCDRM Fund provides support to national and regional voluntary agencies and community groups as well as governmental agencies which, using their own initiative and resources, undertake small-scale projects at the community level to enhance disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction. Click here for more information