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| This Program is to assist municipal governments, official agencies and NGO’s, national as well as local, in hydraulic resource management to prepare vulnerability profiles, mitigation programs and the design, installation and operation of local alert systems from the dangers of flooding in small river basins in Central America. Activities in five phases has been developed, Phases I and II of the Flood Hazard Mapping and Local Alert System Project in Honduras and Phases III, IV and V in all Central America. The Program considers the need to incorporate mitigation measures in reconstruction activities after Hurricane Mitch’s and other disaster impact on Central America and is in coordination with the "Federación de Municipalidades del Istmo Centroamericano" (FEMICA), the "Comité Regional de Recursos Hidraúlicos del Istmo Centroamericano" (CRRH), and CEPREDENAC. To perform the activities the Program uses professionals from the Project as instructors and utilizes the technical material developed for the pilot areas during the prior phases of the project. |
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