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Preparedness Program
Full text access to all PAHO disaster publications, archives on past
disasters, the names of disaster coordinators in the Americas, news,
meetings and more. |
 CRID
- Regional Disaster Information Center
for Latin America and the Caribbean Multiagency center with an on-line
database of more than 13,000 disaster documents. |
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 SUMA
- Humanitarian Supply Management System
Promotes transparency and accountability in the management of relief
supplies and is the regional standard for PAHO/WHO Member Countries.
The SUMA system includes software, training manuals, logistics courses
and more than 3,000 trained volunteers worldwide. |
 ISDR
- International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
As the successor to the IDNDR, ISDR continues enabling communities
to become resilient to the effects of natural, technological and environmental
hazards and reducing the compound risks they pose to social and economic
vulnerabilities within modern societies. |
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principal objective of the courses is to enhance the participants´
capacity to design and implement disaster reduction programs, with
emphasis on the health sector. |
 CDERA
- Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency
CDERA is an inter- governmental regional disaster management organisation
established in 1991 by an agreement of Heads of Government of the
Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Its headquarters are located in Barbados.
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 The
Health Library for Disasters
This site (also available on CD-ROM) contains the full text in HTML
and PDF of more than 300 publications on disasters from PAHO, WHO,
other UN agencies and NGOs. |
 CEPREDENAC
- Centro de Coordinación de Prevención de Desastres
Naturales en Centro América (Spanish
only) CEPREDENAC is a regional institution, component of the Central
American Integration System (SICA). Its purpose is to promote natural
disaster reduction, through the exchange of experience, technology
and information; analysis of strategies common problems; and external
cooperation. |
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 Health
and the Displaced Population in Colombia
Contains information from
several organizations working to improve health conditions for more
than 2 million persons who have been displaced by violence in Colombia. |
 Disaster
Web Site of Andean Countries (Spanish
Only) This website integrates all the institutions working in disasters
in the Andean Countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru y Venezuela.
Offers centralized links to many disaster resources on the Andean
region. |
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 Training
material on chemical accidents (Spanish
only). Technical documents from the international course "Prevention,
Preparedness and Response to Disasters caused by Dangerous Chemical
Products", organized by CETESB and PAHO/WHO. |
 DIPECHO
A project of Disaster Preparedness, Information and Mitigation in
the Caribbean, sponsored by ECHO, the European Commission Humanitarian
Office. |
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 PAHO/WHO
Disaster Preparedness in the Caribbean Information
on training events, new publications and topics of interest to the
disaster community in the Caribbean. |
 La
RED - Red de Estudios Sociales sobre Prevención de Desastres
en América Latina
(Spanish only). The Social Studies Network on Prevention of Disaster
is made up of ten member institutions from Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru,
Colombia, Equador, Brazil and Canada. Its purpose is research on prevention
and management of disasters in Latin America, from a social perspective.
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 PAHO/WHO
Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation in Central America
(Spanish only). Special project on
Reduction of Vulnerability in the Countries Affected by Hurricane
Mitch. Learn about the project goals and the progress that four countries--Honduras,
Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala--are making to reduce their vulnerability
to natural hazards following Hurricane Mitch. |
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PAHO/WHO Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation
in South America News, links,
publications, special sections on disaster legislation and chemical
accients and more. |
 Hospital
Seguro The PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center dedicated
to the reduction of natural damages in health facilities. |
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 PAHO/WHO
Nicaragua Historical data
on disasters in Nicaragua, risk maps, links and more. |
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