What is the Caribbean Risk Management Initiative ?
With the acceleration of global climate change and given the vulnerability of Caribbean countries, the increasing risk posed by a range of natural, environmental and technological hazards remains one of the region's most critical unresolved development problems.
The Caribbean Risk Management Initiative (CRMI) was launched by the UNDP’s Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) and Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (RBLAC) in 2004 as an umbrella programme designed to build capacity across the Caribbean region for the management of climate-related risk. The CRMI is led by the Cuba and Barbados/OECS UNDP Country Offices, in close collaboration with partners and other UNDP Country Offices in the region.
As part of the UNDP strategy for knowledge management, the CRMI provides a platform for coordinating and sharing knowledge and experiences on risk management throughout the Caribbean, across language groups and cultures. Our premise is that the most sustainable way forward involves finding and sharing the lessons learned here in the region.
The United Nations’ Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.
UNDP focuses on five key practice areas:
The mandate of the Caribbean Risk Management Initiative (CRMI) comes under the “crisis prevention and recovery” practice area. UNDP is committed to expanding this urgently needed capacity at the local and regional levels, as well as internationally.
A decisive step forward in putting disaster risk reduction on the international agenda is the Hyogo Framework of Action, approved in January 2005 as an outcome of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction. UNDP supported the drafting of this framework, which entails increasing the resilience of nations and communities in the face of disasters.
Funding sources:
The Caribbean Risk Management Initiative (CRMI) is funded by the Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea; Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the UNDP’s Gender Thematic Trust Fund (GTTF); and UNDP core funding from the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (RBLAC) and the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR).
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