Bridgetown, Barbados, July 8th, 2014 (CDRRF) - The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is again issuing a call to eligible organisations to apply for funding to support community based disaster risk reduction efforts and climate change adaptation projects. The selected projects will be financed from the Bank’s Community Disaster Risk Reduction Funded (CDRRF) and they organisations may begin applying from July 8, 2014. Application documents and guidelines are available on the CDRRF webpage at http://www.caribank.org/programmes/cdrr1.
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Bridgetown, Barbados, July 4th, 2014 (CDEMA) - The CDEMA Council reaffirmed the commitment of Participating States to the regional Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) Strategy at the 5th Meeting of the Council held last Friday, June 27, at the Hilton Hotel in Barbados.
Bridgetown, Barbados, June 26th, 2014, (CDEMA) – The Fifth (5th) Meeting of the CDEMA Council of Ministers will convene on Friday, June 27, 2014 at the Hilton Hotel in Barbados. The meeting will be attended by Ministers and Permanent Secretaries with responsibility for disaster management within the CDEMA Participating States. The Council is the highest level decision making body in the CDEMA governance structure and will discuss several key matters requiring their approval and endorsement for implementation by the CDEMA Coordinating Unit and Participating States.