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DSD has launched a Database on Emergency Legislation in the Caribbean
The Department of Sustainable Development (DSD) of the General Secretariat of the Organization
of American States (GS/OAS), with the support of the World Bank, is the executing for the Caribbean
Emergency Legislation Project. A significant component of the project involves identifying relevant
constitutional provisions and legislation pertaining to natural disasters and the declaration of a
state of emergency in the event of a natural disaster.
The DSD has created a database with relevant constitutional and legislative provisions from the 12
project countries Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti,
Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.
This database is expected to serve as valuable resource in building legislative capacity to enhance
legal and institutional frameworks for state of emergency in the Caribbean.
More....
Relevant
Links:
Environmental
Legislation in the Americas
IUCN Environmental
Law Program
ECOLEX: Gateway to
Environmental Law
Environmental Compliance & Enforcement Indicators
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