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Advancing Disaster Risk Management in the Caribbean

Explore the Caribbean's hazards landscape, impacts, and the importance of Comprehensive Disaster Management for sustainable development and climate adaptation. Enhancing regional resilience and capacity is crucial in mitigating and responding to disasters.

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Advancing Disaster Risk Management in the Caribbean

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  1. Climate, Disaster Risk Management and the Caribbean Liz Riley Deputy Executive Director (ag) Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency March 1, 2012 Barbados

  2. Presentation Overview • Why have this conversation? • The Caribbean Hazards Landscape • Hazard impact • CARICOF in the Context of Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) • Opportunities

  3. Hazards of Concern at the Regional Level

  4. Storm Surge, Palmiste Grenada, Hurricane Lenny, 1999

  5. Landslide – Marc, Saint Lucia (Hurricane Tomas 2010)

  6. Flood Event – TrinidadAugust 2008

  7. Selected Hazard Impacts in the Caribbean Various sources: Collated by CDEMA

  8. Losses from Extreme Weather Events • 1979 – 2009 • repeated losses have resulted in damage to the estimated value of between US$700Million and 3.3 Billion dollars in direct and indirect costs from extreme weather events alone (IDB)

  9. Caribbean Vulnerability- Climate Variability and Change • The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report concluded that climate change is now a certainty, and that it has begun to affect the frequency, intensity, and length of many climate-related hazard events, such as floods, droughts, storms and extreme temperatures, thus increasing the need for additional timely and effective adaptation.

  10. CARICOF IN THE CONTEXT OF CDM

  11. Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) – The Caribbean Brand of Disaster Risk Management

  12. GOAL Regional Sustainable Development enhanced through CDM PURPOSE To strengthen regional, national and community level capacity for mitigation, management, and coordinated response to natural and technological hazards, and the effects of climate change. OUTCOME 1: Enhanced institutional support for CDM Program implementation at national and regional levels OUTCOME 2: An effective mechanism and programme for management of comprehensive disaster management knowledge has been established OUTCOME 3: Disaster Risk Management has been mainstreamed at national levels and incorporated into key sectors of national economies (including tourism, health agriculture and nutrition) OUTCOME 4: Enhanced community resilience in CDERA states/ territories to mitigate and respond to the adverse effects of climate change and disasters OUTPUTS OUTPUTS OUTPUTS OUTPUTS Enhanced CDM Framework CROSS CUTTING THEMES – ICT, GENDER …,

  13. Benefits • Critical tool in supporting the National Disaster Organization to do its job better • Enhanced Early Warning • Supports Mitigation and Prevention • Seasonal Forecast – • What are we expecting? • Inform preparatory actions and mitigation measures • Decision making on resource allocation

  14. Key Issues and Opportunities • Who constitutes the end user – diversity of players (DM, Economic Sectors, Private Sector) • Focus on end user needs – based on an assumption that the end user understands and can define needs • What information sharing needs to inform the above? • Redefining the role of Meteorological Services – Capacity implications?

  15. Key Issues and Opportunities • Institutional arrangements for sustained dialogue – Meteorological Services and Disaster Managers and fora for regular interfacing – ICT options – DEWETRA • Financing the CARICOF (revenue generation – self sustaining?) • Platform for launching the CIMH as a Regional Climate Center

  16. Thank You! Contact Information Email: elizabeth.riley@cdema.org; Website: www.cdema.org;

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