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.
Project Outcomes
Improved coordination and collaboration between community disaster organisations and other research/data partners including climate change entities for undertaking comprehensive disaster risk management
Enhanced community awareness and knowledge on disaster management and climate change adaptation procedures
Enhanced preparedness and response capacity (technical and managerial) for sub-regional and local level management and response
Major Outputs
A regional programme for integration of climate change in the disaster risk reduction agenda
A regional plan of action for implementing the climate change and disaster risk reduction programme
A community-based disaster management planning programme incorporating climate change
An operational regional mechanism for coordination of community based disaster management initiatives
The strengthening of CDEMA’s Sub-Regional Disaster Emergency Response Operational Units for enhanced response coordination
Global climate change (GCC) is the most serious threat to sustainable development facing CARICOM States. In this regard, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) has received funding support from the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) to implement the Mainstreaming Climate Change into Disaster Risk Management for the Caribbean Region (CCDM) Project. This project seeks 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.
The CCDM Project will target groups especially vulnerable to climate change and disaster utilizing gender-sensitive and participatory methods. This two (2) year project is valued at € 689,425 and is expected to end November 30th, 2010.
A number of regional institutions, including the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCS) and the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) are key partners in the implementation of the project.