South America group meets on disaster reduction
13.10.2015
The Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), Central American Coordination Centre for Natural Disaster Prevention (CEPREDENAC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) developed on 7- 8 October in the City of Knowledge, Panama; The IV Regional Meeting "Partnerships between the public and private sectors for disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: Corporate social responsibility in risk management".
The purpose of the meeting was to build strategic alliances between the public and private sectors to strengthen the resilience of nations and settlement through disaster risk reduction, on the agenda of institutions specializing in Latin America and Caribbean risk management and this year becomes a priority issue after the recent adoption of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015- 2030, by the Member States of the United Nations.
Roy Barboza, Executive Secretary of Central American Coordination Centre for Natural Disaster Prevention (CEPREDENAC), during the opening session of the meeting, said: "Disaster in the mountains cities in Central America, in the case study of the earthquake of Santa Tecla, El Salvador in 2001 and the tragedy last Thursday in El Cambray II, Guatemala affected by landslides, events had been reduced disaster with good planning in human settlements on the slopes".
In this regional meeting Alberto Pascual of the Fundacion CoMunidad, a Panama-based member of the Mountain Partnership and Advocate participated in the Global Campaign Making Cities Resilient: 'My City is getting ready!' . Pascual promoted the need to encourage local governments, address the management of ecosystem services provided by trees and forests result in multiple benefits for citizens and contribute some of ecosystem services are natural barrier to effectively way of disaster risk reduction in landslides in the mountains.
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New and photo by Alberto Pascual - Fundacion CoMunidad
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