10 May 2023 | Meetings and technical symposiums
Institutionalizing sound evidence-based sustainable development policies in the Caribbean requires quality, timely, and accessible climate change and disasters indicators that are harmonized and comparable across countries.
6 September 2021 | Meetings and technical symposiums
This workshop is the second of a two-part series and is designed for technical officers responsible for GIS and application developers supporting DRM.
30 August 2021 | Meetings and technical symposiums
This workshop is the first of a two-part series and is designed for senior technical officers having responsibilities in selecting and using technologies to support DRM.
17 November 2020 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The Caribbean is considered one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Indeed, the financial impact of disasters such as hurricanes on Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is invariably several times greater than their gross domestic product (GDP). Governments of the subregion...
5 November 2020 | Meetings and technical symposiums
As a subregion extremely vulnerable to extreme weather events and the adverse effects of climate change, the Caribbean is particularly susceptible to disaster displacement and climate migration.
21 June 2017 | Meetings and technical symposiums
ECLAC Caribbean will deliver a disaster assessment methodology training to the benefit of the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA).
14 March 2017 | Meetings and technical symposiums
The training course will focus on strengthening the capacity of member States in the assessment of the effects and impacts of disasters in the Caribbean in light of the 2030 development instruments.
24 January 2017 | Meetings and technical symposiums
ECLAC and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) have convened a four-day training course in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, to improve the ability of policymakers from eight Caribbean countries to prepare for disasters and to assess their effects and impacts.
26 June 2015 | Monitoring committee
“There is no question that the Caribbean is shouldering an unsustainable debt burden which compromises the capacity of the economies for sustained growth and restricts the options available to governments to introduce important social and welfare programmes” the Executive Secretary of the Economic...