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The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (<strong>CDEMA</strong>) has fully adopted the<br />
principles and practice of Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM), which is an integrated<br />
and proactive approach to disaster management. A Regional Programming Framework has<br />
been developed for the period 2005 to 2015 in order to integrate CDM into development<br />
processes in the <strong>CDEMA</strong> participating states through five thematic areas:<br />
1. Hazard mapping and vulnerability assessment<br />
2. Flood management<br />
3. Community disaster planning<br />
4. Early warning systems<br />
5. Climate change<br />
6. Knowledge enhancement<br />
Building resilience of nations and communities to hazard impacts was determined as the overall<br />
focus for the Caribbean region, and it was proposed that resources would be sought to expand<br />
and replicate several on-going best practices throughout the region.<br />
The MCCCDRR Programme has been developed to enhance community awareness of and<br />
knowledge about climate change under Outcome 2 of the two-year Mainstreaming Climate<br />
Change into Disaster Risk Management for the Caribbean Region (CCDM) Project being<br />
implemented by <strong>CDEMA</strong>, which seeks to achieve three outcomes:<br />
1. Improved coordination and collaboration between community disaster organisations and<br />
other research/data partners including climate change entities for undertaking<br />
comprehensive disaster risk management;<br />
2. Enhanced community awareness and knowledge on disaster management and climate<br />
change procedures ; and<br />
3. Enhanced preparedness and response capacity (technical and managerial) for subregional<br />
and local level management and response.<br />
2. PROGRAMME GOAL<br />
The goal of MCCCDR Programme is consistent with the focus of the ten-year Comprehensive<br />
Disaster Management (CDM) Framework 2005-2015, which is to build the resilience of nations<br />
and communities to hazard impacts.<br />
3. LEARNING FROM GOOD-PRACTICES<br />
CANARI has conducted a review of community disaster management and climate change<br />
initiatives in the English-speaking Caribbean (see Appendix 1 of inception report) and existing<br />
community-based disaster management and climate change materials (see Appendix 2 of<br />
inception report). From this review, it has extracted the following good practices, which have<br />
informed the design of the MCCCDRR Programme.<br />
3.1 Good practice in community-based DRR and CCA<br />
There are few tried and tested examples of community-based climate change and disaster risk<br />
reduction in the Caribbean. Such efforts have only recently been implemented and not on a<br />
wide scale. Additionally, the lessons learnt from these initiatives are poorly documented. Based<br />
on the review of selected community-based climate change and disaster management<br />
programmes listed in Appendix 1, and from other regions, as well as CANARI’s own experience,<br />
the following good-practices have been identified and will be used to inform the design of the<br />
MCCCDRR.<br />
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