Showing 1 - 10 of 25
risk associated with small-scale disasters; and past risk management performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320080
This report includes the proceedings of the Seminar on Climate Change and Severe Weather Events in the Caribbean and Asia, held in Barbados at the Grand Barbados Beach Resort on July 24-25, 2003. The seminar provided a forum in which experts from the Southeast Asian and Caribbean regions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216207
and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the "Confronting Natural Disasters: A Matter of Development" Seminar held in New Orleans on … natural disasters, but also to achieve sustainable development. This document deals with vulnerability reduction and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216215
instruments for environmental and natural resource management; 3) Strategic actions to reduce the risk of disasters by means of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294053
This documents contains Disaster Risk and Disaster Management indicators for Belize calculated according to the methodology developed by the Bank. This System of Indicators had three specific objectives: i) improvement in the use and presentation of information on risk. This assists policymakers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320050
This evaluation (RE-307) of the Bank's country program in El Salvador covers the period from 1992 to 2004. The review period thus begins with the conclusion of the Peace Accords and the end of 12 years of armed conflict that led to a serious deterioration in the population's living conditions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672457
The Sustainable Development Department's Social Development Division (SDS/SOC) assists the IDB by providing technical support to operations and by helping to identify and promote new opportunities for Bank action in social development that will accelerate growth and improve the well-being of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672460
This document (GN-2085-5) was favorably considered by the Bank's Board of Directors on March 12, 2001. The Sector Facility, in particular, will assist countries to take an integrated approach to reducing and managing their risk to natural hazards before a disastrous event through the following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672463
This report (RE-349) presents an evaluation of the Bank's country program for Belize in the period 2004-2008. It is based on a review of documentary evidence provided by the Bank and other sources, as well as information gleaned from interviews with Bank staff in Headquarters and the Country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672762
This report (RE-263) evaluates the IDB's country program in Honduras during 1990-2000. The aim of the Honduras Country Program Evaluation is to serve as an input into the production of the new country paper by raising a number of considerations intended to be helpful to the Bank and the Borrower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672901