Provides access to seasonal hurricane activity forecasts and related reports from Professor William Gray et al of Colorado State University.Click here to visit website

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’s Community Council determined that its regional disaster management institution – the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) – 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