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Annexesa2Business and Industry Council for Emergency Planning and Preparedness (BICEPP)In 1983, the Mayor of Los Angeles and a group of business leaders met to discuss disaster preparedness. This group subsequentlybecame a steering committee and formed the Business and Industry Council for Emergency Planning and Preparedness (BICEPP). Itwas established as a private sector, self- help association funded by annual sponsorship donations. BICEPP later evolved into a non-profitcorporation, lead by an Executive Committee and a Board of Directors. It goal is to provide a forum for information exchange, toenhance emergency preparedness and contingency planning within the business community.http://www.bicepp.org/cCanadian International Development Agency (CIDA)CIDA supports sustainable development activities in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperousworld. http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/index.htmCaribbean Community (CARICOM)Its mission is :”To provide dynamic leadership and service, in partnership with Community institutions and Groups, toward the attainmentof a viable, internationally competitive and sustainable Community, with improved quality of life for all.” http://www.caricom.org/Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), St. Michael, BarbadosCDB intends to be the leading Caribbean development finance institution, working in an efficient, responsive and collaborativemanner with its borrowing members, leading towards the systematic reduction of poverty in member countries, through social andeconomic development. http://www.caribank.org/Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA), St. Michael, BarbadosCDERA is an intergovernmental, regional disaster management organization with 16 participating states, headquartered in Barbados.CDERA’s main function is to launch an immediate and coordinated response to any disastrous event affecting any participatingstate, once the state requests such assistance. www.cdra.orgCentral American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), HondurasCABEI, as a development bank and the financial arm of integration, has as its mission to promote progress and integration in the Isthmus,to foment economic growth with equity and to respect the environment, by means of supporting public and private projects andprograms that create productive employment and contribute to improve productivity and competitiveness, as well as to increase thehuman development indices of the region. Headquartered in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, CABEI was founded on December 13, 1960, bythe Republics of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to promote regional integration and development. Thebank’s membership has since grown to include the extra-regional members of Mexico, the Republic of China (Taiwan), Argentina and,most recently, Colombia. http://www.bcie.org/Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control (CCFSC), Viet NamThe CCFS Control is responsible for emergency responses to disastrous events in Viet Nam.Central European Disaster Prevention Forum (CEUDIP)This Forum has been established in 1999 by decision of the Central European Committees for the International Decade for Natural DisasterReduction of the United Nations (IDNDR). This was done in order to continue the efforts initiated during the Decade by thecountries of Central Europe (Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in activities requiring collaboration ofneighbouring countries in all types of disasters, in particular in floods on rivers which are shared by these countries. The main focus wason early warning, but other important issues are being mutually considered, including the media’s role, disaster prevention and mitigationand legislation on states of emergency . http://www.unisdr.org/unisdr/dirregional.htmCentre International de Formation des Acteurs locaux (CIFAL), France (International Training Centre for Local Actors)The objectives of the center are: to contribute to crisis management by UN agencies; to focus on the role of local community for emergencyhumanitarian response and aids for reconstruction and to establish partnership with UN agencies and other international actors.http://www.unitar.org/cifal/Center for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), United KingdomThe Centre for Ecology and Hydrology’s site at Wallingford is home to the hydrology research centre for the United Kingdom (the formerInstitute of Hydrology), as well as the British Geological Survey’s hydrogeology research group, the publishing office of the InternationalAssociation of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS Press) and a section of the Natural Environmental Research Council’s (NERC) centralIT Solutions and Services Group.www.nerc-wallingford.ac.uk www.ceh.ac.ukCenter for Integration of Natural Disaster Information (CINDI), United States Geological SurveyCINDI is a research and operational facility that explores methods for collecting, integrating, and communicating informationabout the risks posed by natural hazards and the effects of natural disasters.http://mac.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs00301.html345
a2Living with Risk: A global review of disaster reduction initiativesCenter on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), Dhaka, BangladeshCIRDAP is a regional, intergovernmental and autonomous institution established in July 1979 by the countries of Asia and the Pacificregion. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which had the support of several other UN bodies anddonor countries and agencies such as Japan, and the Swedish International Development Agency took the initiative for its creation. Themember countries of CIRDAP are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan,Philippines, Sri Lanka,Thailand, and Vietnam. http://www.cirdap.org.sg/Centre européen de prévention des risques (CEPR), FranceThe CEPR is a center on applied sciences in the field of prevention. Its work is founded on the expertise of insurers, researchers, andmanufacturers of products and services. http://www.cepr.tm.fr/fr/index.htmCentre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), Catholic University ofLouvain, Brussels, Belgium Although the main focus of the Centre is on safeguards, public health and the sanitary aspects of disasters,CRED also studies the socio-economic and long-term effects of these large-scale disasters. Increasingly, preparedness, principally at thelevel of human resource development as well as problems linked to the management of crises, have gained a higher profile withinCRED’s activities. It maintains the OFDA/CRED international disaster database EM-DAT. http://www.cred.be/Centre Régional AGRHYMET, Niamey, NigerCreated in 1974, AGRHYMETis a specialized hydro-meteorological institute of the Permanent Interstate Committee for DroughtControl in the Sahel (CILSS http://www.agrhymet.ne/AGRHYMETCentro de Coordinacion para la Prevención de Desastres Naturales en América Central(CEPREDENAC), Republic of Panama (Coordinating Centre for the Prevention of NaturalDisasters in Central America)CEPREDENAC was established in 1988 as a coordination center for strengthening the capacity of the region as a whole to reducethe vulnerability of the population to the effects of natural disasters. In May 1995, CEPREDENAC became an official organizationset up to foster the Central American Integration System (SICA)with the Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,Nicaragua and Panama as members. www.cepredenac.org/Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres (CENAPRED), Mexixo (National Center for Disaster Prevention)The National Centre for Disaster Prevention was created by an Agreement of Cooperation between the governments of Mexicoand Japan for the use and transfer of technology for the prevention of disasters. http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/Centro Peruano Japonés de Investigaciones Sísmicas y Mitigación de Desastres(CISMID), (Peruvian-Japanese Centre for Seismic Research and Disaster Mitigation)http://www.cismid.uni.edu.pe/Centro Regional de Informacion de Desastres (CRID), San José, Costa Rica (Regional DisasterInformation Centre)CRID is an initiative sponsored by six organizations that decided to join efforts to ensure the compilation and dissemination of disaster-relatedinformation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its mission is to promote the development of a prevention culture in theLatin American and Caribbean countries, through the compilation and dissemination of disaster-related information, and the promotionof co-operative efforts to improve risk management in the region. www.crid.or.crCenter for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) Atlanta, United StatesCDC is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people – at home and abroad, providing credibleinformation to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developingand applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed toimprove the health of the people of the United States. http://www.cdc.gov/Comité permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte Contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS), Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso (Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel)Its mission is to be involved in the research of food security and to combat the effects of drought and desertification for better ecologicalstability. http://www.cilss.org/Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD), El Salvador (Central AmericanCommission for Environment and Development)It is called to protect and, at the same time, give value to the regional patrimony, which is characterized by its biological diversity andecosystems. Accordingly, it is also called to be a bridge of collaboration between the countries of the region seeking the adoption of thethemes of sustainable development by soliciting the collaboration of all the parties that work in the field of development. It is the regionalinstitution in Central America responsible for the coordination of Corridor activities and other regional environment and developmentinitiatives in Central America. http://ccad.sgsica.org/346
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The shift towards disaster reductio
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