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The International Day for Disaster Reduction

As we mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction, the precarious post-disaster situations throughout our region come to mind. Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean natural and human events are becoming increasingly destructive. Whether it be climate changes that are intensifying and changing weather patterns, or the food security crisis communities throughout our region are experiencing first hand serve vulnerabilities to disasters. And we must all become part of the answer if this reality is going to change.

This year, the International Day for Disaster Reduction is on October 8th, marking almost two decades since the United Nations General Assembly agreed on the second Wednesday of October to promote a culture of prevention around the world. This day raises the profile of disaster risk reduction and encourages every citizen and government to take part in building more resilient communities and nations.

Resilient Communities in the Face of Shocks and Disasters

“One step back and two or more steps forward!” With this resounding and animated response workshop participants answered the question: “What is community resilience?” This response soon became the motto and rouser of recent workshops in 3 Australian-funded Area Development Programs in Peru and Brazil.

Through engaging activities, community members dialogued and analyzed their community’s resilience. The two day workshops allowed the 271 children, youth and adults to understand that they could reduce the impact that shocks and disasters left on their communities. The sessions led them towards a process of hazard identification and a targeted effort at increasing their tangible and intangible capacities. Attendees began to assess their community resilience by depicting the vulnerabilities and capacities in 7 interrelated areas of community life: human-cultural, physical-structural, financial-economic, social-political, spiritual, technological-scientific and environmental-health (including food security/sustainable agriculture and livestock)…

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Building Preparedness Capacity for Community Emergency Response and Disaster Mitigation (CERDM)

Continued annual disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean such as tropical storms, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, mudslides and droughts severely impact populations across the region. Although communities realize that action is necessary to lessen the effect of these events, many lack the experience, knowledge and organization skills to address them due to limited financial and other resources that are often scarce or non-existent. Thus, in order to address this issue, World Vision International [WVI] decided to implement a community-based emergency response and disaster mitigation program in its Area Development Program (ADP) in the region.

In 1998 Hurricane Mitch, one of the deadliest Atlantic storms in history, devastated much of Central America. A great deal of the damage resulted from insufficient water, shelter management and lack of flood warning systems and flooding infrastructure….

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