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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».

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