This report covers the period 01 January 2010 to 31 December 2010.

In brief

Programme purpose: The Americas zone office is guided by its work with the 35 Red Cross Societies of the Americas in line with Strategy 2020 and the Inter American Plan 2007–2011.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Central America and the Dominican Republic is expected to obtain financing for $2 billion in 2011 from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for priority areas such as citizen security, nfrastructure, social protection networks, natural disasters and climate change, and public finances, the President of the IDB Luis Alberto Moreno announced today.

The President of Honduras Porfirio Lobo and Moreno inaugurated the 25th Meeting of Governors of the Central American

Una inversión que supera los =A212.000 millones, por parte de la Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias (CNE), y que representan unas 76 obras busca reducir el impacto de las emergencias en todos los cantones de la provincia de Limón.

Durante el 2010 y lo que va del presente año, la institución invirtió recursos en obras de protección en los cauces de los ríos, limpieza de canales, insumos y en contratación de maquinaria para primeros impactos durante las emergencias.

La ejecución de estas obras responde

El país es muy vulnerable a las catástrofes naturales

WASHINGTON, 2 de febrero de 2011 - El Directorio Ejecutivo del Banco Mundial aprobó ayer un préstamo de US$50 millones para El Salvador que le permitirá a su gobierno enfrentar mejor los desastres naturales. El préstamo utiliza la modalidad de Opción de Disposición Diferida (ODD), un préstamo que le permite al gobierno utilizar los fondos en caso de ocurrir un desastre natural.

El financiamiento del Banco respaldará el Programa de Gestión de Riesgos ante Desastres Naturales, un plan de

President of the JCA, Ms. Audrey Campbell, presented a cheque for CAN$10,153.87 to Jamaica's Consul General to Toronto, Mr. Seth George Ramocan, at a brief ceremony on December 20. Several days later, the Consul General turned the cheque over to the Executive Director of Food for the Poor Canada, Ms. Samantha Mahfood, whose Jamaican branch will be using the funds to aid the victims.

The tropical country of El Salvador has a population of 5.8 million people and is situated within 21,040km2 in Central America. Guatemala borders El Salvador to the west, Honduras on the north and east, and Nicaragua is located to south-west of the Fonseca Gulf. The country is divided into 14 departments and 35 per cent of the total population lives in the country's capital, San Salvador. Spanish is the official language and Catholicism and Protestantism are the predominant religions.

Throughout its geological and hydro-meteorological

BOGOTA (AlertNet) - Climate change could cost Central America at least half its gross domestic product by the end of this century as more extreme weather, lower crop yields and water shortages are forecast in a region already prone to natural disasters, a recent United Nations report warns.

Increasing global average temperatures, rising sea levels, changes in rainfall and more frequent storms and droughts linked to climate change are already taking a heavy toll on government finances and poor rural communities across the seven countries that make

? HAITÍ: 20,000 casos de cólera atendidos en Haití. Según la OMS la epidemia llegará a República Dominicana.

? COLOMBIA: El Gobierno declara Estado de Calamidad Pública a 28 departamentos - 1.3 millones de afectados por lluvias

? GUATEMALA: Más de 1,500 personas afectadas por el frío son atendidas en albergues de emergencia.

KEY DEVELOPMENTS

- On October 27, the nineteenth named storm of this hurricane season, Tomas, formed off the northeastern coast of South America. After developing into a tropical storm, Tomas made landfall in Barbados on October 30. Tomas became a Category One hurricane as it approached St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where it collapsed bridges and destroyed houses, crops, roads, and other infrastructure. On November 4, the storm passed Jamaica as a tropical storm and caused little