Press Release No:2012/157/LAC

WASHINGTON, November 17, 2011- Today the World Bank’s Board of Directors approved two loans totaling US$90 million for the Dominican Republic to enhance performance results in the social sector, which will benefit 600,000 low-income households, as well as improve the response capacity of key institutions in the management of future disasters.

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.

1. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most disadvantaged in the world. Some 76 percent of its population of 9.6 million lives below the poverty line, with 56 percent in extreme poverty (2001 data). In recent decades, it has demonstrated a very high vulnerability to economic and social crises, as well as to numerous exogenous shocks, such as adverse natural events and commodity prices. In 2004, city of Gonaives was devastated by Hurricane Jeanne, which took more than 4,000 lives. October 2007, brought Tropical

Since the programme was launched in 1996

Appeal target (current): CHF 1,750,541 (EUR 1,199,000 or USD 1,528,857) to assist 52,995 beneficiaries.

Final Appeal coverage: 100%;

Appeal history:

- This Emergency Appeal was initially launched on a preliminary basis on 1 November 2007 for CHF 785,000 (USD 677,308 or EUR 469,217) for six months to assist 15,000 beneficiaries.

- A total of CHF 480,000 (USD 414,150 or EUR 286,909) was allocated from the Federation's Disaster Relief Emergency

vu le traité instituant la Communauté européenne,

vu le règlement (CE) n=B0 1257/96 du Conseil du 20 juin 1996 concernant l'aide humanitaire(1), et notamment son article 2, et son article 15, paragraphe 2, considérant ce qui suit:

(1) La République d'Haïti sort d'une longue période d'instabilité politique.

(2) Les populations vulnérables sont victimes d'une situation extrême qui nécessite des interventions humanitaires dans les domaines de l'alimentation, de la santé, de l'eau, de l'assainissement et de la sécurité alimentaire.

Madrid, 20 de enero de 2009 - Rep=FAblica Dominicana está considerado país prioritario para la Cooperación Española en el Plan Director 2005-2008, lo que supone una mayor concentración de recursos, en un marco de cooperación determinado por el Documento de Estrategia País (DEP) y el Acta de la VI Comisión Mixta Hispano-Dominicana de Cooperación,

Sixty-third General Assembly
Plenary
42nd & 43rd Meetings (AM & PM)

Also Adopts Texts on Cooperation between United Nations and Arab League, Situation in Central America: Fashioning Region of Peace, Freedom, Democracy

While deeply concerned about the Taliban's encroaching influence around the country, the burgeoning narcotics trade and surging violence that has killed more and more aid workers and civilians, the Assembly today, in its annual debate on the situation in Afghanistan, recognized signs of progress and drew hope from the newly emerging ties

HPG Working Paper

1. Introduction

1.1. Latin America and the Caribbean region

Throughout its history the region that encompasses Latin America and the Caribbean - from Mexico south and to the east - has been among the most disaster prone in the world: Volcanoes, earthquakes, droughts and floods - the last, a consequence of the El Niño phenomenon and yearly cycles of major tropical storms widely believed to have been intensified by global warming. Comparing the years 1971-75 with