Mensajes principales

• América Latina y el Caribe, continúa fortaleciendo su compromiso político con la erradicación del hambre: la Primera Cumbre de la CELAC, celebrada en Santiago de Chile a comienzos de 2013, sirvió para reafirmar este compromiso con la promoción de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en los países de la región.

27/05/2013

In recent years, floods, landslides, droughts and hurricanes have crippled agricultural production in the Caribbean, where agriculture is the main livelihood activity for a significant number of people. To strengthen community preparedness and resilience to natural disasters in the region, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched the a project titled “Disaster Preparedness Project for Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica” (OSRO/RLA/102/BEL) in October 2011.

In this issue

CCRIF and the Caribbean Development Bank Host Strategic Donor Meeting
CCRIF Events and Happenings Some snapshots
CCRIF Implements 2013
Extra-Regional Scholarship Application Process Update on 2013/14
CCRIF Policy Renewals

Period covered: January to December 2012

Overview

The DREF allocated a total amount of CHF 22,836,393 in 2012. Seventy-five per cent of the allocations, CHF 17,076,253, were made as grants to small-scale operations implemented by National Societies for which no emergency appeal was launched, known as DREF operations. CHF 5,760,140 was allocated as loans of start-up funding to emergency appeals.

WMO Annual Climate Statement Confirms 2012 as Among Top Ten Warmest Years

GENEVA, 2 May 2013 (WMO) The World Meteorological Organization’s Statement on the Status of the Global Climate says that 2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest — at ninth place — on record despite the cooling influence of a La Niña episode early in the year.

DESTACADOS

• 19 desastres naturales afectaron a cerca de 552,000 personas en la región, durante el primer trimestre de 2013. Las inundaciones afectaron al 71 por ciento del total.

• Brasil es el principal donante de la región, aportando $106 millones para la respuesta humanitaria, desde el 2000.

• Un fuerte compromiso por parte de los socios humanitarios es necesario sobre el tema de la violencia. 41 de las 50 ciudades más peligrosas del mundo están en América Latina y el Caribe.

DESTACADOS:

• COLOMBIA: Primera temporada de lluvias deja al menos 70,000 personas afectadas.

• PERÚ: Temporada estacional de lluvias ha dejado más de 176,000 personas afectadas.

• ALC: Epidemia de Roya del Café provoca pérdida de 441 mil empleos.

Kingston, Jamaica, April 15, 2013 – On Friday April 12, 2013 the Government of Jamaica and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), formalising a donation of US$100,000 made by CCRIF to the Government of Jamaica to support Jamaica’s post-disaster recovery and restoration initiatives following the effects of Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. The MoU signing and exchange took place at the Ministry of Finance and Planning in Kingston, Jamaica.

Over 44,000 people from 30 Members States and 15 of the territories* in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions participated in the second full scale regional tsunami exercise held on March 20, 2013.