Committee on Hemispheric Security – Permanent Council

February 14, 2007

Report on activities related to AG/RES.2184 (XXXVI-0/06)

Committee on Hemispheric Security – Permanent Council

February 14, 2007

Report on activities related to AG/RES.2184 (XXXVI-0/06)

Areas of action Project execution

Support to Inter-American Forums

Support to policy formulation

Committee on Hemispheric Security – Permanent Council

February 14, 2007

Report on activities related to AG/RES.2184 (XXXVI-0/06)

Key elements of DSD projects Identification;

Reduction; and

Risk transfer

On-going projects Caribbean Emergency Legislation Project – World Bank Grenada Hurricane Resilient Home Reconstruction (GH2R) Project - CIDA Central American Education Sector Retrofit Program (CAESRP) - CIDA Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment in Central America and

South America (VCA) – IFRC, ProVention International Disaster Response, Laws, Rules and Principles

Program (IDRL) - IFRC White Helmets Initiative – Government of Argentina

Committee on Hemispheric Security – Permanent Council

February 14, 2007

Report on activities related to AG/RES.2184 (XXXVI-0/06)

Inter-American Forums Meeting of high national authorities – Santa Cruz de la Sierra,

December 3, 2006

Establishment of the Inter-American Network for Disaster Mitigation

Inter-American Network on Disaster Mitigation (INDM) Support the development of the Global Platform –Hyogo Framework for

Action Support the implementation of the IASP and the Inter-American

Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction (IACNDR) Support the sharing and exchange of information and knowledge and

experiences – lessons learned and best practices

Committee on Hemispheric Security – Permanent Council

February 14, 2007

Report on activities related to AG/RES.2184 (XXXVI-0/06)

Policy Formulation Support the Santa Cruz +10 Working Group

Technical advise to the Joint Consultative Organ of the Committee on Hemispheric Security, and the CIDI Permanent Executive Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction and Risk Management

Support the development of the Hyogo Framework for Action National Platforms

Committee on Hemispheric Security – Permanent Council

February 14, 2007

Report on activities related to AG/RES.2184 (XXXVI-0/06)

Action Plan – priorities and goals for 2007 Consolidation of the INDM – Support to the IACNDR and IASP

Drafting of policy papers addressing priority issues per sub region

Mainstreaming Risk Management in Water Resources Management – Transboundary basins, Early Warning Systems (EWS), Adaptation to climate variability

Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation to Natural Hazard Risk Management

Committee on Hemispheric Security – Permanent Council

February 14, 2007

Geographic Area/Thematic Area

South America Central America Caribbean

Water and Climate

Early Warning Systems (EWS)

Floods & droughts in Transboundary Basins

Community-based EWS in Small Valleys

Wetlands and dams operation

Flood control

Climate Change (CC)

Scenario modeling –land degradation; Adaptation; and Land-use change

Climate Variability Adaptation Scenario modeling –sea-level rise/ CZM

Building Codes School and Housing School and Housing

Risk Transfer Replication of Caribbean experience

Insurance and re-insurance

Seismic activity monitoring and early warning

Ancestral knowledge and practices for EWS

Indigenous people case study project (i.e. Andean community)

Indigenous people case study project (i.e. Miskito communities, Hond & Nicar)

Replication of Latin American experience

Report on activities related to AG/RES.2184 (XXXVI-0/06)

Thematic priorities vs. Geographic priorities

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