Comprehensive Disaster Management Strategy and Programme Framework. Country/Territory Saint Lucia Document type Date 2008 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen. Keyword Disasters Early warning system/emergency intervention system Risk assessment/management Flood Climate change Geographical area Americas, Caribbean, Latin America and the Caribbean, LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN FAO, North Atlantic, Small Island Developing States Entry into force notes The present Comprehensive Disaster Management Strategy and Programme Framework covers the period from 2007 to 2012. Abstract The present document presents a Programme Framework for an enhanced approach to Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) in the Caribbean. The revised/enhanced Framework, which is now termed Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management (CDRM), is intended to emphasize disaster loss reduction through risk management, and to follow a more programme based approach (PBA) with an emphasis on Results Based Management (RBM). Priority Outcomes have been determined and associated outputs suggested to cover a five-year period, that is 2007-2012. Its ultimate purpose is ‘to strengthen regional, national and community level capacity for mitigation, management, and coordinated response to natural (floods and hurricans) and technological hazards, and the effects of climate change». Full text English