Note: Activities in the Caribbean from 1993 to 1999 are listed in chapter 8: Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project.

Dominica

Continuation of landslide hazard assessment and hazard mitigation planning activities following hurricane Hugo. 1990.

Landslide hazard assessment and vulnerability reduction priorities for integrated development project. 1987.

Ecuador

Vulnerability Reduction Project for the Pacific Coast after the Floods of 1997, including preparation of guides, models and technical terms of reference for the design, construction and maintenance of rural, energy, school and transportation infrastructure, in order to reduce their vulnerability to floods. 1997.

Ecuador - Guatemala

Project review for the USAID mission in these two countries to evaluate the contents related to the management of natural hazards. 1991-1992.

Honduras

Planning strategy for urban watershed management to include natural hazard, natural resource, population, and infrastructure information for Tegucigalpa metropolitan zones under low-income settlement development pressure as part of an OAS integrated development project. 1988-1990.

General assessment of natural hazard information for integrated development planning. 1984.

Nicaragua

Vulnerability analysis for the mitigation of volcanic eruptions damage for the National Institution of Territorial Studies (INETER). 1990-1991.

Peru

Natural Hazard Vulnerability Reduction Program for development projects of the National Institute for Development (INADE) with financial support from The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). 1994 to present.

Dominican

Republic

Establishment of a cooperative mechanism among NGO’s and the private sector at the community level for the prevention of disasters. Done through the Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project (1993 to present).
Natural hazards assessment and identification of vulnerability.

For the five frontier provinces, a settlement infrastructure, a lifeline natural hazards vulnerability assessment, mitigation measure identification, assessment manual for local officials, and workshop for vulnerability identification and reduction. (1987-1988).

Landslide hazard assessment and identification of disaster mitigation measures for selected settlements in the frontier region. (1987).

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