ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Management in the CARIFORUM
About the Program
The ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Management in the CARIFORUM Programme (NDRM) is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, funded by the European Union (EU) to support disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) activities in the Caribbean Region.
Launched in 2014 for a period of five years, the €20 million programme is implemented by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Dominican Republic Ministry of the Presidency.
Beneficiary countries of the funding are Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Christopher and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
What We Do
The objective of the programme is to contribute to reducing the vulnerability to long term impacts of natural hazards, including the potential impacts of climate change, thereby achieving regional and national sustainable development and poverty reduction goals in the CARIFORUM States.
The NDRM strives to strengthen regional, national and community level capacities for disaster risk reduction, preparedness, management and coordinated response to natural hazards and the effects of climate change.
The NDRM entails the delivery of a range of activities across four (4) result areas:
Result 1: Capacity of National Disaster Offices (NDOs) and CDEMA’s Coordinating Unit strengthened for implementation of Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM). Under this result the NDRM will aim at strengthening the capacities of National Disaster Offices (NDOs) and other relevant national agencies in the implementation of regional and national CDM Strategies and in prioritized technical areas and strengthen CDEMA Coordinating Unit’s capacities, as the main coordinating body for CDM in the region. The NDRM will also aim at strengthening monitoring, evaluation & reporting, resource mobilisation and project development within CDEMA.
Result 2: National, local and regional resilience through strengthened early warning, national risk profiling and community-based DRR and CCA. Under this result, the NDRM will aim at strengthening community/local-level capacity for resilience in CARIFORUM countries to the challenges posed by natural hazards and climate events in a number of identified and prioritized areas. It will also improve institutional capacities at regional and national levels for early warning, data analysis, modelling and practical application.
Result 3: Sector resilience strengthened in key public policy sectors, through DRR and CCA mainstreaming. Under this result, the Programme will support the removal of barriers and create opportunities for mainstreaming DRR and CCA in the public sector, particularly, at the level of Ministries of Finance, Planning and Economic Affairs. It will also improve the integration of DRR and CCA considerations into planning and decision-making frameworks at national and sub national levels in selected CARIFORUM countries and make critical infrastructure in the transportation and water sectors in CARIFORUM countries more resilient to natural hazards and better prepared for climate change and climate variability.
Result 4: Organizational and functional structures and capabilities of the National System for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (SN-GIRD) in the Dominican Republic Strengthened. The Dominican Republic is a member-state of the CARIFORUM and thus among the expected beneficiary countries of this Intra-ACP financed Programme. However, this partner country is not a member of CDEMA or of the CDB. Therefore, the Dominican Republic benefits from the NDRM through actions to be contracted by its National Authorising Officer (NAO), in line with the NDRM’s main objective and purpose.
This action will therefore seek to strengthen the national system for disaster risk management through training and enhancement of communications at the national level. It will also focus on strengthening of response at the municipal level including early warning and building capacity to assess the vulnerability of critical infrastructure (hospitals, schools and water supplies), to enhance their resilience.
Contacts:
Secretariat on behalf of CARIFORUM
Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency
Resilience Way, Lower Estate, St. Michael, Barbados
Tel: (246) 434-4880, Fax: (246) 271-3660
cdema@cdema.org - www.cdema.org
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