Antecedentes

El Programa de Recuperación Post-desastre es un proyecto desarrollado por el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), que inició en septiembre de 2008, a partir de las devastaciones y daños causados por las tormentas Noel y Olga a su paso por la Rep=FAblica Dominicana.

El proyecto consiste en desarrollar acciones para lograr la recuperación y el mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida (empleo) de los habitantes de las provincias Duarte, Barahona y zonas aledañas, que seg=FAn estudios de la CEPAL fueron las zonas más afectadas por estos dos fenómenos.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The record-breaking 15 flash appeals in 2007 brought to the fore some long-standing weaknesses in flash appeal principles and practices, which the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) moved to correct. A flash appeal overhaul plan was presented to donors at the February 2008 Montreux Retreat and to the IASC Working Group in June 2008, focusing on reviewing the flash appeal mechanism in light of other developments in humanitarian policy and response tools, including the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the cluster approach, the Resident

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

This report presents the main findings, conclusions and recommendations on approaches to disaster risk reduction, based on an evaluation of five DG ECHO disaster preparedness (DIPECHO) Action Plans 1998 to 2007 for Central America, undertaken September–November 2007, focussing particularly on community-based disaster preparedness. The evaluation was undertaken by Allan Lavell, Silvia Hidalgo and Sandra Zúñiga.

PURPOSE AND METHODOLOGY

This report by Anna Jefferys
3 April 2002 (HPN) - Humanitarian agencies have developed mechanisms to gauge a society's vulnerability to conflict and natural disaster. But little attention has been paid to analysing the forces that shape the international humanitarian system's response.

Since 1989, more than four million people have been killed in conflicts, most of them internal, and many of them chronic, localised and long-running. Natural disasters too are costing more lives and causing more damage, particularly in the developing world.

The 2001 hurricane season was above average.

In December 2000 Professor William M Gray et al, forecasted that the 2001 hurricane season would be a below average hurricane season. However, at the beginning of the 2001 hurricane season, this team updated their forecast on June 07, 2001 to indicate that the season would be above average consisting of 12 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 intense hurricanes. The long-term averages are: Tropical Storms-10, Hurricanes-6 and Major Hurricanes-2. (NOAA, 2001).

1. INTRODUCCIÓN
Han transcurrido dos años desde que el Huracán Mitch arrasara Centroamérica a fuerza de lluvia y viento. Dos años en los que Cruz Roja Española ha venido trabajando de la mano con la Cruz Roja de Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y El Salvador y con los propios destinatarios de los proyectos, primero para garantizar sus necesidades básicas, a través de las distribuciones de ayuda humanitaria y posteriormente a través de la planificación y puesta en marcha de proyectos de rehabilitación y de desarrollo.

On May 25-28, 1999 in Stockholm, Sweden, the Inter-American Development Bank chaired a meeting of the Consultative Group for the Reconstruction and Transformation of Central America, a campaign launched to raise aid for the countries devastated by Hurricane Mitch.
The meeting provided government officials, donor representatives, NGO's and academicians with a forum to discuss the key issues relevant to effective reconstruction and transformation in Central America: Transparency