Joint
Consultative Body of the Committee on Hemispheric Security and the
Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral
Development on Natural Disaster Reduction and Risk Management
Introduction
Pursuant to the mandate issued by the
General Assembly in resolution AG/RES. 2114 (XXXV-O/05), the Permanent
Council and the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI)
decided to establish a joint consultative body of the Committee on
Hemispheric Security (CSH) and the Permanent Executive Committee of CIDI (CEPCIDI),
on natural disaster reduction and risk management.
According to operative paragraph 4 of said
resolution, the principal tasks of the joint consultative body are:
i. To work on the immediate
implementation of the recommendations on systematic risk management,
including risk identification, risk reduction, and risk transfer,
directed to the OAS and its subsidiary bodies;
ii. To review the Statutes of
Inter-American Emergency Aid Fund (FONDEM) and of the Inter-American
Committee for Natural Disaster Reduction (IACNDR) and propose the
amendments necessary to create a single permanent inter-American
committee to address natural and other disasters and carry out the
functions of the IACNDR, the Inter-American Committee for Emergency
Situations (IACSE), and the Inter-American Emergency Aid Committee (IAEAC),
which would be composed of the relevant organs, agencies, entities, and
mechanisms of the OAS and the inter-American system;
iii. To convene in 2005, within the
framework of the CSH, a meeting of the regional, subregional, and
national disaster preparedness agencies, with the participation of
governmental experts, subregional sector institutions, and international
experts to share experiences and methods of analysis of vulnerability
and risk and of the cost and benefit of investing in natural hazards
mitigation, and to forward the recommendations of that meeting to the
Permanent Council, CIDI, and the permanent inter-American committee; and
iv. To develop a methodology for funding
specially geared towards prevention of and reconstruction and recovery
in the event of natural disasters.
Authorities
Co-Chairs:
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Ambassador Esteban Tomic Errázuriz, Permanent Representative of Chile
and Chair of the Committee on Hemispheric Security (CSH)
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Ambassador Gordon V. Shirley, Permanent Representative of Jamaica and
Chair of the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council
for Integral Development (CEPCIDI)
Documents
Draft amended statures of the Inter-American Emergency Aid fund (FONDEM)
and the Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction (IACNDR)
OCC/DN/doc.3/06
rev. 2
Draft resolution: Adoption of the revised statutes of the
Inter-American Emergency Aid Fund
OCC/DN/doc.4/06
rev. 3
Draft resolution: Adoption of the revised statutes of the
Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction
OCC/DN/doc.5/06
rev. 3
Note from the Permanent Mission of Argentina forwarding a proposal for
establishing a permanent natural disaster consultation team
OCC/DN/doc.8/06
Draft resolution: Natural disaster reduction and risk management
OCC/DN/doc.9/06
rev.2
Order of business
2006
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May 2006
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May 2006
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April 2006
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March 2006
2005
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September 2005
Notices
8
May 2006
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