Caribbean disaster risk management

1
Caribbean disaster risk management climate
change data to Decision making Workshop

• NEMO REDCROSS

2
What are the key-take aways ?

• Utilization of spatial data in assessment and
  decision making (QGIS)
• Networking among agencies
• Risk/vulnerability assessments
• Interpretation of spatial data

3
How can they be integrated into your work and
decision making processes ?

• Map Vulnerable and high risk areas
• Creation of Data bank for sharing with stake
  holder agencies (e.g shelter assessment )
• Mitigation Plans

4
What is the role of other development agencies ?

• WB-Funding and Training
• TNC-Training, public awareness and assessment of
  ecosystems
• UNDP- funding, training, projects policies (all
  levels of society) e.g mangrove restoration in
  the Philippines
• OECS- networking among eastern Caribbean states
  (e.g CDEMA)

5
What resources do you need ?

• Financing
• Procurement of equipment (e.g software ,
  hardware)
• Trained Personnel and training of personnel

6
Provide a timeline and suggested activites ?

• Activity
• Training personnel to create and interpret risk
  maps
• Timeline
• 8 weeks for training(January and February 2014)
• WKS 1-3-planning of training program
• WKS 4-5- mobilization of persons to be trained
• WK 6-assessment of responses
• WK 7-actual training
• WK 8-evaluation