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Greater
Caribbean Meets in Haiti: Plan of Action for Disaster
Reduction on Agenda |
October 25,
2007 – Delegations from 28 countries and several
international organisations will meet in Saint-Marc, Haiti,
for the first ever High-Level Conference on Disaster
Reduction to be held amongst countries of the Greater
Caribbean.
Recent years have proven the need for a regional vision
which takes into account scant resources and the realities
of heterogeneous actors with common interests and the
Conference will allow for the exchange of experiences,
lessons learnt and best practices, as well as determine
areas of intra-regional co-operation, bearing in mind the
sheer number of initiatives in the region and the economies
of scale achieved by harnessing the wealth of complementary
capacities which ranges from high-tech equipment and
scientific knowledge to the low-tech but key experience
fundamental at the community level. |
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The most tangible
outcome of the Conference will be the adoption of a Plan of
Action to guide the work of the Association of Caribbean
States’ Special Committee on Natural Disasters over the next
five years.
The Plan of Action will endeavour to translate the UN’s
Hyogo Framework for Action into the realities of the Greater
Caribbean and to this end, the organisers have counted on
the collaboration of UNOCHA, UNISDR, IADB, UNECLAC, CEDERA,
CEPREDENAC, IFRC, PAHO and UNDP.
Vulnerability to disasters including exposure to the effects
of climate change, impact the sustainable development of all
countries of the Greater Caribbean regardless of size and
have a particularly negative effect on the most vulnerable
socio-economic groups, severely hampering efforts to meet
the Millennium Development Goals. The Association recognises
that assessing and reducing risk before investing in
development at all levels of society will enable countries
to become more resilient to natural hazards. In this regard,
recognition of disaster reduction as a cross-cutting theme
of sustainable development planning is paramount. |
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