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Pan Caribbean Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Project (PCDPPP)
The case for preparedness and prevention: Anegada, BVI (British Virgin Islands).
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2012.)
PCDPPP: Background
Quoted from page 30 of B. Carby, 2011, Caribbean Implementation of the Hyogo Framework For Action - HFA Mid-Term Review, Disaster Risk Reduction Centre, University of the West Indies, Jamaica and United Nations Development Programme, Cuba.
"In 1981 the Pan-Caribbean Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Project (PCDPPP) was established to spearhead a regional effort to improve disaster preparedness in the Caribbean. The project had its headquarters in Antigua, and was supported by the United Nations Disaster Relief Organisation (UNDRO), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Pan-American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) and the Red Cross as well as Canada, the United Kingdom and the European Economic Community. Initially conceived as a short term project, it eventually ran for nearly ten years, adding prevention to its mandate and it became the Pan-Caribbean Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Project (PCDPPP). The project did much to raise the awareness of countries in the region to the importance of preparedness and prevention, where previously response and relief had been emphasised."
Road flooding on the north coast of New Providence, the Bahamas.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2011.)
PCDPPP: Some documents
- Disaster Management Performance Targets For Caribbean States. How Does Your Country Measure Up? full text (1,714 kb in PDF).
- Field, R.M. 1988 (January). Comprehensive Emergency Management for Trinidad and Tobago. Prepared for Government of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, full text (1,714 kb in PDF).
- Inmanex (International Management Expertise). 1992. Proposal for the Establishment of a Permanent Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Organization. Inmanex, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, full text (4,435 kb in PDF).
- UNDRO/PCDPPP. 1989. The Logic of the PCDPPP, full text (241 kb in PDF).
After a car fire in Barbados (1999).
PCDPPP: Newsletters
With thanks to James Lewis and Roché Mahon
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 1, October 1984, full text (7,355 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 2, December 1984, full text (6,526 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 3, March 1985, full text (1,769 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 4, December 1985, full text (4,814 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 5, March 1986, full text (6,899 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 6, June 1986, full text (9,445 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 7, September 1986, full text (6,013 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 8, December 1986, full text (1,876 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 9, March 1987, full text (9,627 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 10, June 1987, full text (4,614 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 11, September 1987, full text (10,708 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 12, December 1987, full text (2,517 kb in PDF, but needs page 15 to be complete).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 13, March 1988, full text (10,592 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 14, June 1988, full text (4,957 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 15-16, September/December 1988, full text (14,184 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 17, March 1989, full text (10,812 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 18, June 1989, full text (11,576 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 19, September 1989, full text (13,782 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 20, December 1989, full text (14,500 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 21, March 1990, full text (13,465 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 22, June 1990, full text (13,387 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 23, September 1990, full text (11,653 kb in PDF).
- Caribbean Disaster Preparedness Newsletter. No. 24, December 1990, full text (11,392 kb in PDF).
Franklin McDonald, who was involved in PCDPPP, contributing to a meeting in San José, Costa Rica.
(Copyright Ilan Kelman 2013.)
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