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MEETING AT OAS MONDAY TO DISCUSS
INTER-AMERICAN RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTERS
September 9, 2005
Vulnerability reduction, disaster response, and risk management top the agenda for a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) Joint Consultative Body on Natural Disaster Reduction and Risk Management next Monday, September 12. The joint initiative of the OAS Permanent Council and the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) , the meeting begins at 2:30 p.m.
Facilitated by the office of the OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert R. Ramdin , the meeting comes amid an emphasis by the Organization’s new leadership regarding the need to address natural disaster reduction, mitigation and risk management as a matter of urgency for the entire hemisphere.
The Joint Consultative Body’s co-chairs, Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) Chairman, Jamaica’s Ambassador Gordon V. Shirley, along with the Chairman of the Committee on Hemispheric Security, Chile’s Ambassador Esteban Tomic Errázuriz will open the meeting, which OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will address.
Besides the OAS representatives, experts from a variety of agencies will engage in the discussion on challenges and opportunities for natural disaster reduction in the hemisphere, among them participants drawn from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO); IDB; United States International Development Agency (USAID); Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); Caribbean Emergency Disaster Response Agency (CDERA); and the Coordination Center for Natural Disaster Prevention in Central America (CEPREDENAC).
A report entitled “The Economics of Disaster Mitigation in the Caribbean: Quantifying the benefits and costs of mitigating natural hazard losses,” will be launched at the meeting as well.
WHAT: Meeting of OAS Joint Consultative Body on inter-American response to natural disasters
WHEN: Monday, September 12, 2005
TIME: 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Hall of the Americas
OAS Main Building
17th Street & Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C.
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