Jamaica

Documentos Clave

• Country Document on Disaster Risk Reduction
• Disaster Risk Management in Latin America and the Caribbean Region:GFDRR Country Notes- Jamaica
• Indicator and disaster risk and risk Management IDB
• Jamaica: Country Document on Disaster Risk Reduction - 2014

  ODPEM

• National progress report on the implementation ofthe Hyogo Framework for Action (2011-2013)
• Second National Communication of Jamaica to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change- 2011
• The World Bank.Country Profile

* The updated version of this document will be available by the end of 2014

Herramientas

Actores Principales

Delegación Unión Europea

Plan de Acción DIPECHO 2015-2016

IFRC: Caribbean Communities Organized and Prepared for Emergencies (CCOPE)

• Area of intervention:
   Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname

• Main project results:
• CDMS is strengthened through its operationalization at country level with national community resilience programmes
• Regional knowledge management, through the harmonization and application of existing risk reduction tools and methodologies, is consolidated in conjunction with the National Systems
• Scaled-up advocacy with resilience partners and greater public and private support for community resilience activities

UNISDR: Implementing the post 2015 DRR framework in the Caribbean at the local, national and regional levels

• Area of intervention:
   Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago

• Main project results:

- Enhance political commitment and institutional engagement

• Aligning of two main regional DRR strategies with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
• Promote the integration DRR Country Documents/profiles updating processes into regional and national monitoring and evaluation processes
• Provision of technical support for the preparation of two DRR Country Documents (Haiti and Belize)

- Facilitate access to relevant DRR information in ordert to informed decision-making for DRR as an integral component of policies and planning

• Providing key decision makers with DRR information and tools
• Promote the DRR country document at regional, national and local level
• Promote results, tools and initiatives at the regional (national) level using different media tools

Plan de Acción DIPECHO 2013-2014

HelpAge International

• Project title: Mainstreaming vulnerable populations in Disaster Risk Reduction in Jamaica
• Core Activities: Community disaster plans, micro-mitigation projects, retrofitting of houses, contingency plans

UNISDR

• Project title: Strengthened Disaster Risk Reduction in the Caribbean through greater fostering of the Hyogo Framework for Action priorities for action at the local, national and regional levels
• Implementation in: Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
• Core activities: Communication and dissemination of DRR tools and initiatives, HFA implementation, Country documents

Plan de Acción DIPECHO 2011-2012