Bridgetown, Barbados, February 3, 2012 (CDEMA) - The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, in collaboration with the national disaster offices of Belize, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia, has organised a series of capacity building workshops to address disaster risk reduction related to the safety of schools and to the agriculture sector.
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Dr. Zoran Vojinovic, an Associate Professor of Hydroinformatics at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Institute for Water Education (IHE) in the Netherlands is currently analysing the flood hazard areas of the Virgin Islands.
Dr. Vojinovic and Ms. Garymar Rivera, the Senior Technical Planning Manager at the Department of Disaster Management (DDM), will visit locations throughout the Territory and review reports, photographs and video footage of past events. Additionally, they will meet with District Officers and residents from areas that have experienced flooding, to discuss key issues and gain more knowledge about past flood events.
During the week- January 23 - 27, 2012, the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) in collaboration with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and Seismic Research Centre, St. Augustine Campus, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago has put in place several processes which will enhance NEMO’s capacity to effectively and efficiently address geological hazards issues relative to St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
- NEMO & OECS Secretariat to host Consultation on Draft Harmonised Approval for Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into OECS Natural Environmental Management Strategies 1st February, 2012
- Stakeholders Design Harmonized Disaster Risk Reduction Protocol
- Stakeholders assess Regional Climate Change Adapation Project
- NEMO, CDEMA & Seismic Research Centre Geological Hazard Training Workshop 23-24th January, 2012