1. Introduction
2. Workshop Objectives
3. Workshop Description
4. Plan Outline and Detailed Workplan
5. Recommendations

• Appendix 1 Workshop Agenda
• Appendix 2 List of Participants
• Appendix 3 Plan Outline
• Appendix 4 Detailed Workplan

As part of the Post-Georges Disaster Mitigation Project, the USAID / OAS are assisting the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis with the development of a natural hazard mitigation plan. As part of the 14-month process of plan development, two workshops on natural hazard mitigation and mitigation planning were held in St. Kitts and Nevis from June 13 to 16, 2000. The first workshop, an introduction to natural hazard mitigation, was held from June 13 to 15. The second workshop, designed to develop a workplan for the mitigation plan, was held on June 16. Both workshops were held at the Ocean Terrace Inn in Basseterre. This report summarises the activities and recommendations of the second workshop.

2.0 Workshop Objectives

The purpose of the workshop was:

1. To develop an outline of the proposed natural hazard mitigation plan and
2. To develop a detailed workplan.

The workshop agenda is presented as Appendix 1. Dr. Cassandra Rogers and Mrs. Lynette Atwell facilitated the workshop. Twenty persons from the public and private sector attended (See Appendix 2). These included the majority of members of the Mitigation Guidance Committee and a subset of the participants who had attended the first workshop.

The workshop period was devoted to presentation and discussion of a basic plan outline and to the development of the workplan.

Following the workshop, the plan outline was further detailed (Appendix 3). The 12-month workplan, presented as Appendix 4, outlines 23 tasks, along with the specific duties, time allocated, and teams and/or individuals responsible for execution. It is to be noted that the local coordinator would be required to further detail the workplan. Working groups were assigned to compile the hazard and resource data and to perform the capability assessment.

5.0 Recommendations

• The responsibility for the mapping requirements for the vulnerability assessments need to be detailed and clarified as soon as possible, as this can delay the plan preparation process.
• The workplan presented as Appendix 4 should be further detailed (by the local coordinator) to include team members and individual responsibilities.

July 6, 2000

1. Introduction
2. Organisational structure
• Building the Team
3. Plan Outline
4. Workplan
5. Details of workplan
• Data compilation exercise
• Capability assessment
6. Review

Appendix 2: List of Participants

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

GLOSSARY

PREFACE

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF TABLES

SECTION 1 - INTRODUCTION

• LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR PLAN PREPARATION
• AREAL EXTENT OF THE PLAN
• HISTORICAL BACKGROUND WITH RESPECT TO DISASTERS
• SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF THE PLAN
• PLAN MISSION
• INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR PLAN PREPARATION (CHART)
• TIME SCALE
• METHODOLOGY

SECTION II - HAZARD AND VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT

• HAZARD IDENTIFICATION
• HAZARD PRIORITIZATION
• HAZARD ANALYSIS
• VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT
• IDENTIFICATION OF VULNERABLE AREAS
• CONCLUSIONS

SECTION III - ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF EXISTING SYSTEMS

• CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT
• MITIGATION OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS
• CONCLUSIONS

• IDENTIFICATION OF GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
• IDENTIFICATION OF ALTERNATE STRATEGIES FOR
• ACHIEVING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
• STRATEGIES, PLANS, POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES

SECTION V – PHASING AND IMPLEMENTATION

• PHASING
• RESPONSIBILITY FOR IMPLEMENTATION

APPENDICES

1. CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT SUMMARY
2. STUDIES IN SUPPORT OF THE PLAN PREPARATION
3. HAZARD ASSESSMENT
4. VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT
5. LIST OF SUPPORTING POLICIES