In addition to collaborating with the United Nations Development Programme to present Disaster Management Training Workshops, the Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment also works with other national or multinational groups to present training courses on the assessment and mitigation of natural disasters.

Central America

Regional training course on integration of natural hazard information in the preparation of road investment projects, and on the use of GIS as a tool for information preparation for road investment projects, for 20 participants associated with the CAH Vulnerability Study to Natural Hazards. This project was a US Department of Transportation-OAS collaborative activity. (November 1999- March 2000).

Latin America

Central America Regional Workshops by the OAS-ECHO School Vulnerability Reduction Program on project initiation and development, in Venezuela, 1997, in Honduras, 1996, and in Nicaragua, 1995.

Workshop on Profiling National Highway System Vulnerability to Natural Hazards in Argentina. (1995).

First Latin American Workshop on Natural Hazard Effects Reduction in Energy Infrastructure in Costa Rica. (1995).

Two workshops on electrical utility company vulnerability reduction to earthquakes and preparation of training materials in Spanish with the Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC) in the United States of America. (1994).

Co-sponsorship of IDNDR meetings with the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), including members of the Inter-American system. Jamaica, 1992, and Guatemala, 1991.

Reduction Programs for the Education Sector at CINTERPLAN Natural Disaster Vulnerability in Caracas, Venezuela. (1992).

In collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, a natural hazard vulnerability reduction training course for the agricultural sector in Ecuador. (1992).

Course on the use of natural hazard information in investment project formulation. In collaboration with the Peruvian-Japanese Center for Seismic Investigation and Disaster Mitigation (CISMID) in Peru. (1992)

Course on the use of natural hazard information in investment project formulation in collaboration with The Central American Institute of Public Administration (ICAP) in Costa Rica. (1988)

Design and execution of two pilot courses on the use of natural hazard information in investment project formulation, with 42 participants from 18 countries in collaboration with the Inter-American Center for Integrated Development of Land and Water (CIDIAT), in Venezuela. (1986)

Latin America and Caribbean

Two workshops on electrical utility company vulnerability reduction to earthquakes and preparation of training materials in Spanish with the Central United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC) in the United States of America. (1994).

Co-sponsorship of IDNDR meetings with the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), including members of the Inter-American system. Jamaica, 1992, and Guatemala, 1991.

Caribbean

First Caribbean workshop on Natural Hazard Vulnerability Reduction Programs for School Buildings in Trinidad. (1993)

Landslide hazard assessment and landslide susceptibility mapping workshop. Twenty-three local participants and seven international participants in collaboration with the Office of Disaster Preparation (ODP), University of the West Indies (UWI), and Pan Caribbean Disaster Prevention and Planning Program (PCDPPP) in Jamaica. (1989)

Workshop on settlement infrastructure vulnerability to natural hazards, with 24 participants from 5 countries, in collaboration with PCDPPP, in Saint Lucia. (1988).

Chile

Workshop on natural hazard assessment and integrated development planning in collaboration with the National Forestry Corporation (CONAF). (1987)

Colombia

Energy sector natural hazard vulnerability reduction workshop with the Ministry of Energy and Mines. (1991 and 1992)

Course on the use of natural hazard information in investment project formulation, in collaboration with the "Agustín Codazzi" Geographic Institute (IGAC). (1989)

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