Executive Summary - GFDRR

Graph 5. Social agents responsible for taking prevention and response measures to disasters
Regional Autonomous Corporations (CAR)
Private Sector
Ministry of Works
Utilities
Ministry of Health
The Community
Departmental Government
Police
Local Emergency Committees
Civil Defense
Red Cross
Firefighters
National Government
City Hall
Yourself
19%
25%
30%
30%
35%
39%
39%
39%
39%
40%
43%
46%
51%
51%
61%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Source:World Bank, 2011.
Sample base: 1,148 respondents.
Events that can produce the most critical future scenarios
from the viewpoint of their financial impact and loss of
life are a severe earthquake, a volcanic eruption, and a La
Niña phenomenon episode. Earthquakes, although they
are rare events, have a greater potential impact in the
country. However, a large-scale volcanic eruption, although
it may recur in more than 500-year periods, would mean
a scenario of a crisis of national magnitude. The most
relevant effects in terms of number of municipalities with
significant impacts on all sectors, but especially in the
agriculture sector, may be produced by heavy cumulative
rainfall caused by the La Niña phenomenon. As previously
seen, severe flooding and widespread landslides have
affected a significant percentage of the country, causing
serious crop damages to landlords possessing large tracts
of land, and in the livelihoods of small farmers, as well as
housing, transportation, and other sectors.
MAIN conclusions of the ANALYSIS of disaster risk management in Colombia 19